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Wanderer Joined: 05 Sep 2008 Posts: 51

oks, i know nothing about programming, i know nothing about reading code, the few things i do know are from reading helpfiles and trial and error...

i made a convinient little alias for setting a group of variables as follows:

#ALIAS dcal {set combat allocation = left hand,b,%1,d,%2,s,%3,a,%4,n,300}

in zMUD this works just fine, but for some reason in cMud whatever i enter results in an error...

any help appreciated...

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:01 am

Is this what you want?

#ALIAS dcal {#SEND {set combat allocation = left hand};b=%1;d=%2;s=%3;a=%4;n=300}

Not sure what you are trying to do here otherwise.

Wanderer Joined: 05 Sep 2008 Posts: 51

the actual format of the the command must be like the following

set combat allocation = left hand,b,25,d,25,s,25,a,25,n,300

the %1 and so through zMud would let me enter

dcal 25 25 25 25

and i would end up with the result above, but cMud for some reason does not like to allow the use of %1 and the like without spaces on each side...and i'm trying to recreate my beloved alias cause issa pain to type in that mess every time i want to adjust somthing by one number

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:31 am

#ALIAS dcal {#SEND {set combat allocation = left hand,b,%1,d,%2,s,%3,a,%4,n,300}}

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Just so you understand what was causing the error in your original code: the problem is the equal sign. In Cmud you need to be a bit more careful than in Zmud about escaping the equal sign: ~=

The reason Shalimar's code works is that the inner set of braces acts like quotation marks, making everything within it a string which is not evaluated.