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taishar77
Newbie
Joined: 06 Dec 2008
Posts: 8
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 Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 4:28 am
Problems with alias variables
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Well I have tried for a while to try to figure this out so I am breaking down and asking about it. I have a MUD I play where some people use tells for ic and some for ooc. Most of us made an ooc alias for tells in zmud but I can't get the variables to read in cmud because of how they were changed? I am not sure I used to use alias otell %1 (ooc) %2 and now that no longer works. The ooc portion also has a color code attached but I figure I can worry about that later because it uses brackets {D {W etc.. for that MUD. Thanks ahead of time for anyone who can help me with this. I tried how I had it formatted above and it works minus it cuts off the actual tell so it's only picking up one word.
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Rahab
Wizard
Joined: 22 Mar 2007
Posts: 2320
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:33 pm
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The problem is probably that you are using %2 instead of %-2. The former grabs a single word, the latter will grab the second word and all the subsequent words. If you type the following at the command line, it should work:
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| #alias otell {%1 ~(ooc~) %-2} |
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Rahab
Wizard
Joined: 22 Mar 2007
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:33 pm
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The problem is probably that you are using %2 instead of %-2. The former grabs a single word, the latter will grab the second word and all the subsequent words. If you type the following at the command line, it should work:
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| #alias otell {%1 ~(ooc~) %-2} |
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zannai
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Joined: 21 Jul 2008
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:44 pm
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to get more than 1 word add a - between % and 2
so you might have something like this for your alias- Where %1 is the character you're sending the tell to, and 2nd parameter is the message.
#alias otell tell %1 (ooc) %-2
so at a command line you would type: otell fred Hey w'sup?
That would send tell fred (ooc) Hey w'sup? to the mud. |
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taishar77
Newbie
Joined: 06 Dec 2008
Posts: 8
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 5:49 pm
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| zannai wrote: |
to get more than 1 word add a - between % and 2
so you might have something like this for your alias- Where %1 is the character you're sending the tell to, and 2nd parameter is the message.
#alias otell tell %1 (ooc) %-2
so at a command line you would type: otell fred Hey w'sup?
That would send tell fred (ooc) Hey w'sup? to the mud. |
Hello and thanks for the reply :) That works for the most part but cmud strips out the () on the ooc and when I go to add colorcode which is like {C({Dooc{D) {D it strips everything part of that out. Is there a way around it reading brackets as coding language? Zmud didn't but cmud does.. Thanks again. |
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calesta
Apprentice
Joined: 07 Dec 2008
Posts: 102
Location: New Hampshire, USA
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 6:15 pm
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When Rahab responded he put the ~ character in front of the (). The ~ character is the 'escape' character in CMUD which means to not process the next character as a special character. Add that in for the () and it should work fine.
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taishar77
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Joined: 06 Dec 2008
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 6:37 pm
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| calesta wrote: |
| When Rahab responded he put the ~ character in front of the (). The ~ character is the 'escape' character in CMUD which means to not process the next character as a special character. Add that in for the () and it should work fine. |
Oh I got it now, thanks for clarifying that and it works perfectly now.
Thanks everyone for help on this :) |
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