Zugg Software :: View topic - If statements, or another way to do an alias.

Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2002 Posts: 105

Basically I like making aliases/triggers as compact as possible and like to avoid having 20 alises if there's a way to make one serve this purpose.
The alias I'd like to make would do this...
I type "I Something"
it will check if the something is any of a list of things.. if it's one of a list, it will do something set to the list for that item. if it's not on the list, whatever was typed will just happen
Here's what I have so far for the alias if you don't understand what I'm talking about

#alias i {#if (%1 = "cl") {invoke cure light};#if (%1 = "cm") {invoke cure moderate}}

The problem I've come across is if the something is not one of the "list" of items (cl/cm/etc I only listed two so it's a short example) I want it to "invoke Whatever" but without stacking the ifs by using the second set of brackets for the if not, (the list is well into 50ish things, and I'd not care to stack 50 or so if statements) If you understand, and have any clue how to help... any help would be greatly appreciate.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5187

Perhaps you could use a record variable. Something like:
#ADDKEY InvokeCommands {cl} {cure light}
#ADDKEY InvokeCommands {cm} {cure moderate}
#ALIAS i {#IF (%iskey(@InvokeCommands,"%1")) {invoke %db(@InvokeCommands,"%1")} {invoke %1}}

The #ADDKEYs are only to establish the variable in the first place. You might find the Settings Editor easier to use to expand on it.

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

Use a record instead of a list.

#ADDKEY spellabbrevs {cl} {cure light}
#ADDK spellabbrevs {cm} {cure moderate}
#AL i {invoke %if( %iskey( @spellabbrevs, %1), %db( @spellabbrevs, %1), %1)}