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Replacing words and phrases in commands
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| Posted by
| Vercalos
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| Wed 14 Sep 2011 11:21 PM (UTC) |
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| Is there any way of taking a command, sending
A B C B B C B
and replacing every instance of B in the command with -B-?
I'm trying to make an alias to automatically insert ANSI into anything between "", rather than making a seperate alias for A "B", "B", A "B" C "B" and so on. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Daniel P
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| Reply #1 on Wed 14 Sep 2011 11:47 PM (UTC) |
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| Look at string.gsub()
Example used in the help file:
string.gsub ("nick eats fish", "fish", "chips") --> Nick eats chips
In your case:
string.gsub("A B C B B C B","B","-B-")
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| Posted by
| Vercalos
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| Reply #2 on Thu 15 Sep 2011 12:40 AM (UTC) |
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| So would that work for when I send commands?
And that means writing a script? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,057 posts) Bio
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| Reply #3 on Thu 15 Sep 2011 09:28 PM (UTC) |
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| You would write an alias - that matches something. Then inside the alias do "send to script" and do something like string.gsub to replace things. Then do a Send (results) to send the replaced text to the MUD.
You need to get the string.gsub right, eg. you may not want to replace letters inside other words, for example. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Vercalos
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| Reply #4 on Fri 16 Sep 2011 04:46 AM (UTC) |
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Nick Gammon said:
You would write an alias - that matches something. Then inside the alias do "send to script" and do something like string.gsub to replace things. Then do a Send (results) to send the replaced text to the MUD.
You need to get the string.gsub right, eg. you may not want to replace letters inside other words, for example.
Well my main concern goal is to make commands go from
"A" B "C" to "[ansi(*,A)]" B "[ansi(*,C)]"
Without adding ansi tags to B, etc. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #5 on Fri 16 Sep 2011 06:00 AM (UTC) |
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| | Can you give a more concrete example? Are A B and C words? Consisting of A-Z? Or digits as well? Will they have spaces in them? |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Vercalos
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| Reply #6 on Fri 16 Sep 2011 06:28 AM (UTC) Amended on Sat 03 Dec 2011 04:02 AM (UTC) by Vercalos
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| like turn
"I said I wasn't going to go," the man replied in a very annoyed voice, "you kill yourself if you want but I'm staying here!"
into
"[ansi(*,I said I wasn't going to go,)]" the man replied in a very annoyed voice, "[ansi(*,you kill yourself if you want but I'm staying here!)]"
Basically, I'm trying to automatically color speech in a MUSH.
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