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Apprentice Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 164

I want to have a "name" alias that takes two strings and creates a trigger based on them. Here's what I have right now:

alias: name
#trigger {(%1)} {#sub {%%1 named %2}} people

Unfortunately, executing it like this:
name {the short, smelly dwarf} {Fnog the healer}

results in:
trigger pattern: ({the short, smelly dwarf})
trigger value: #sub {%1 named {Fnog the healer}}

This is obviously bad for a couple of reasons. First, the pattern should have the curly braces in it. Second, there shouldn't be any curly braces around Fnog the healer.

How should I go about this? I've tried many different variations but none have worked so far.

Enchanter Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Posts: 627 Location: USA

As far as I know #sub does not understand how to do that

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

Assuming this is all and really what you want according to your post,

#ALIAS name {#TR {~{(%1)~}} {#sub {~{%%1~} named %-2}} people}

Should work by using:

name {the short, smelly dwarf} Fnog the healer

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

The best solution I came up with is to use the #VAR command, which will treat the {} as delimiters and automatically remove them.
Alias: name
Value:
#VAR temp1 %1
#VAR temp2 %2
#TR {(<@temp1>)} {#SUB {%%1 named <@temp2>}}

Apprentice Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 164

(FYI: My escape char is , not ~)

sorry mr_kent, that wound up giving me this:

> name {the short, smelly dwarf} Fnog the healer
Triggers:
[...]
+ people: {({the short, smelly dwarf})} -> #sub {{%1} named Fnog the healer}
[...]

Lightbulb: This worked great. I added a couple of tweaks to it for my situation, such as adding the people class and unvarring to cleanup afterwards.

Here's my final alias:
#var temp1 %1
#var temp2 %2
#tr {(<@temp1>)} {#sub {%%1 named <@temp2>}} people
#unvar temp1
#unvar temp2

Usage:
name {the short, smelly dwarf} {Fnog the healer}
OR
name {the short, smelly dwarf} Fnog

Thanks to both of you so much for taking the time to post.

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

Sorry it didn't work. It worked in my offline test. I don't know if it's the escape char difference, or what. Glad you got it working.

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 6:20 am

actually there is another way to do it, unfortunately i can't find my script for doing it at the moment, but it basically involves doing a %exec on the #trigger command or something to that affect... saves all the temp stuff... when i find how i did it i'll let you know :)