Zugg Software :: View topic - Sending whole lines without capturing them.

Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2001 Posts: 117 Location: Norway

I'm working on a grouptell alias, but I don't know how to send out more than the first word when I haven't captured the whole line I want to capture beforehand.
This is a simplified version of the alias:

#alias tellall {#EXEC tell friends Grouptell: %1}

If I have a trigger like this:
#trigger {Friend tells you (*)} {say Repeating: %1}
I will repeat whatever my friend says. Is there any way to get more than the first word grouptelled when there's no (*) capturing first?

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

Aliases require the use of %-1 to grab
all the parameters from the frist to the
last. Simularily %-2 would grab the second
parameter to the last, leaving %1` for the
first parameter.

Triggers you explicitely specifiy with the
brackets the %1 so that works.

Try
#alias tellall {#EXEC tell friends Grouptell: %-1}

Ton Diening
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Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2001 Posts: 117 Location: Norway

That works. Thank you! :)

Just out of curiosity. Is it possible to somehow divide the line captured in %-1 into segments?

Example:
Tellall Green apples red tomatoes yellow plums

Is it possible to somehow divide this tell into x segments and put them into variables?
Ex. 3 segments where
segment 1 = Green apples
segment 2 = red tomatoes
segment 3 = yellow plums

Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2001 Posts: 117 Location: Norway

I think %-1 %-3 etc. could be used, but how do I limit the first part to first+second parameter, next part to third+fourth etc.?

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

You can also use %1, %2, etc. So it would be
segment1 = %concat(%1, " ", %2)
segment2 = %concat(%3, " ", %4)
segment3 = %concat(%5, " ", %6)

Also, you can always sends a string to an alias as a single argument by enclosing it in double quotes:
Tellall "Green apples" "red tomatoes" "yellow plums"

segment1 = %1
segment2 = %2
segment3 = %3

Kjata

Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2001 Posts: 117 Location: Norway

Perfect. Thanks :)

One last question and I believe I'm done.
The following trigger don't work because I use two wildcards(?) - both (%w) and (*). How can I make it work..?

#trigger {^(%w) orders you to '(*)'} {#if %ismember( %1, @friends) {#EXEC %-2}}

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

As this is a trigger not an alias you can
use %1 for the first bracket'd thing
and %2 for the second bracket'd thing.

#trigger {^(%w) orders you to '(*)'} {#if %ismember( %1, @friends) {#EXEC %2}}

Off the top of my head the ismemeber check
is case sensitive, be wary how the list in
varible friends is setup.

Ton Diening
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more complicated than others.