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Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 656 Location: USA

I'm having trouble with an alias when there is a # in the parms.

For example, I have a Alias called qc, it added the parms to a stringlist

typing "qc show skills farming" on the command line works fine with parse arguments turned on, but typing "qc show skills language#southern" does not work.

If I turn off parse arguments, typing "qc show skills language#southern" works fine, but triggers that use this alias now break.

so my trigger has the following line "qc show skills %1", with the option to turn off parsing, the %1 value gets ignored. so if %1 farming, this no longer works. when %1 = language#southern, this does not work in either case.

Any ideas on how to fix this so it works when a # in included in the parms, and works both at the commandline and when used inside a trigger where I do need the %1

alias qc

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 656 Location: USA

The best thing I could think of was changing the trigger to use

Qc show skills %replace(%1, "#", "~#")

Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:53 pm

When typing special characters on the command line, you need to put " around the argument to your alias, like this:

qc show skills "language#southern"

(with Parse Arguments turned ON).

Obviously if Parse Arguments is OFF, then none of your argument like %1 are going to get expanded...because you have told CMUD *not* to parse the arguments to the alias.

The solution to this is to create two different aliases, one for using on the command line, and one for using in scripts. Turn OFF the parse arguments for your command line alias. For example:

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Not quite on topic, but...
Talahaski, I wanted to let you know that I just uploaded my Dartmud Imps package to the package library. Even if you want to continue writing your own, you might get some ideas from my package. Enjoy! Very Happy

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 656 Location: USA

Rehab, I would love to review this. Where did you post it? I don't see it on the wiki.

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 1:14 am

Is this a Dartmud wiki? His package is in the CMUD package library - click Library on the toolbar, click Get Latest From Library, wait a bit while it does its thing. Then type "Rahab" in the author box and presto. You'll need to log in with your forum credentials to download it.

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 656 Location: USA

Cool, I never used CMUD package libraries. I think I installed it, although I'm not sure how to "see" the scripts inside it.

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 1:31 am

If you're logged into a session when you click Install Package, it's automatically added to that session and should appear in the Package Editor like all your other packages. If you're not, you'll need to manually add it to your session first by opening it with the Editor (should be in your My Games\CMUD\packages folder), then it'll appear there as normal.