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Newbie Joined: 06 Dec 2002 Posts: 5 Location: USA

Okay. I prolly don't need an alias to do the following. But that is how I would have done it in my last frontend. So here's the problem.

I want to enter a line with more than one word and get different results back depending on what words follow the first one.

For instance:

Entering from the command line:

ttask xxxx

would return a different result than

ttask

or even

ttask xxxx yyyy zzzz

Thanks

Newbie Joined: 06 Dec 2002 Posts: 5 Location: USA

Sorry for the multiple posts. That's a bug. Please delete the other two.

Thanks

Adept Joined: 09 Nov 2000 Posts: 222 Location: USA

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AzCowboy

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Actually, if you want to input that you're better off with an alias. You can then put some nested #IF commands in there to check the null status of each argument:

#if (%null(%1)) {#noop this is for an alias with no arguments} {#if (%null(%2)) {#noop this is for an alias with 1 argument} {#if (%null(%3)) {#noop this is for an alias with 2 arguments} {#noop this is for an alias with 3 arguments}}}

That might be a little slow, so perhaps you might be better off with distinctions between entire lines of arguments:

#if (%null(%1)) {#noop this is for no arguments} {#case %ismember(%-1,@aliasarguments) {} {} {} {} {}}

This should be faster, but it's likely to be tedious to write and might have a bit of redundancy, but that depends entirely on how diverse your arguments list will be.

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD