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Posted by Meerclar   USA  (733 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #15 on Thu 05 Feb 2015 08:19 PM (UTC)
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That still leaves an issue if he wants to do something like

-stringo -foo -chocolate bar -pedro -hello world

Passing string obj chocolate bar short pedro is going to cause the command to fail because the syntax will be 'wrong' despite the info being accurate. Is there a simple way to put the newitem info into quotes when its passed? I'm thoroughly out of my area of expertise on that issue.


Actually, it just occurred to me that I've been trying to do that the hard way. Halig, forget about trying to put quotes around the newitem variable when it's passed to the server, put quotes around your keywords if you're going to use multiple keywords. The quotes will get passed as part of the variable and the server should treat the entire thing as 1 'word' for command syntax purposes.

ie -stringo -foo -"chocolate bar" -pedro -hello world
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,158 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #16 on Thu 05 Feb 2015 08:43 PM (UTC)
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It parses that OK:


item foo
newitem chocolate bar
short pedro
long hello world

string obj foo name chocolate bar
string obj chocolate bar short pedro
string obj chocolate bar long hello world


The hyphens delimit the different word groups. You could conceivably add the quotes in the alias, eg.


<aliases>
  <alias
   match="^-stringo -(.*?) -(.*?) -(.*?) -(.*?)$"
   enabled="y"
   expand_variables="y"
   group="Restring"
   regexp="y"
   send_to="12"
   keep_evaluating="y"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>
item = "%1";
newitem = "%2";
short = "%3";
long = "%4";

print ("item", item)
print ("newitem", newitem )
print ("short", short)
print ("long", long)

Send('string obj "' .. item .. '" name "' .. newitem .. '"');
Send('string obj "' .. newitem .. '" short "' .. short .. '"');
Send('string obj "' .. newitem .. '" long "' .. long .. '"');

</send>
  </alias>
</aliases>



Test:


-stringo -foo -chocolate bar -pedro -hello world


Output:


item foo
newitem chocolate bar
short pedro
long hello world

string obj "foo" name "chocolate bar"
string obj "chocolate bar" short "pedro"
string obj "chocolate bar" long "hello world"
- Nick Gammon

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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,158 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #17 on Thu 05 Feb 2015 08:45 PM (UTC)
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Probably a better regexp would be this:


^-stringo -([^-]+?) -([^-]+?) -([^-]+?) -([^-]+?)$


That's because '*' matches anything, including hyphens. Also you want "one or more" not "zero or more" in the brackets.

This variation matches "one or more" of "anything except hyphen" which is what you really want.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Halig   Portugal  (123 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #18 on Thu 05 Feb 2015 08:56 PM (UTC)
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Now it works. Thank you all.
There is only one problem. When you put that, the name on the nweitem appears with the "chocolate bar".
Is there any way to take off the ""?
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Posted by Meerclar   USA  (733 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #19 on Thu 05 Feb 2015 10:23 PM (UTC)
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Got an example of that so I can be sure what you're talking about?
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Stormbringer: Rebirth
storm-bringer.org:4500
www.storm-bringer.org
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Posted by Halig   Portugal  (123 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #20 on Thu 05 Feb 2015 10:28 PM (UTC)
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item book
newitem book of pedro
short book of pedro
long Here lies the book of pedro.
string obj "book" name "book of pedro"
string obj "book of pedro" short "book of pedro"
string obj "book of pedro" long "Here lies the book of pedro."

If then you look at your inventory, the item book of pedro, has the "booke of pedro", meaning that the item got the name with the "".
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Posted by Meerclar   USA  (733 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #21 on Thu 05 Feb 2015 10:53 PM (UTC)
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Only place you should need quotes around your stuff is multi-word newitem. Nothing else needs them for the alias to function properly.
Meerclar - Lord of Cats
Coder, Builder, and Tormenter of Mortals
Stormbringer: Rebirth
storm-bringer.org:4500
www.storm-bringer.org
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Posted by Halig   Portugal  (123 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #22 on Fri 06 Feb 2015 11:47 AM (UTC)
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Still nothing.
I guess i just have to make three aliases to make those things. If i have the three separated, everything is good.
Thank you for trying to help.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,158 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #23 on Fri 06 Feb 2015 08:53 PM (UTC)
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Please post exactly what you are typing, exactly what your alias is, and exactly what gets sent.

Template:copying For advice on how to copy aliases, timers or triggers from within MUSHclient, and paste them into a forum message, please see Copying XML.
- Nick Gammon

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Posted by Halig   Portugal  (123 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #24 on Thu 12 Feb 2015 08:32 PM (UTC)
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Hello again.

Nick, let's try this diferently.
Tell me something, if i have a variable that countains let's say, book of pedro.
How can i use that variable but get only the first word?
That's all i need, to collect from the variable the first word.
Thank you.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,158 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #25 on Thu 12 Feb 2015 08:49 PM (UTC)
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test = "book of pedro"

firstWord = string.match (test, "^(%a+)")

print (firstWord)



Prints:


book


Template:regexp Regular expressions
  • Regular expressions (as used in triggers and aliases) are documented on the Regular expression tips forum page.
  • Also see how Lua string matching patterns work, as documented on the Lua string.find page.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Halig   Portugal  (123 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #26 on Fri 13 Feb 2015 10:31 AM (UTC)
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Hello again Nick,
Thank you for your patience, but how ca i do that using Jscript?
I have more scripts assigned to aliases and if i change the script of MushClient to lua, the other ones don't work.
Thank you again.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,158 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #27 on Fri 13 Feb 2015 07:37 PM (UTC)
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I recommend you use Lua. If you don't want to, put the other aliases into a plugin. Plugins each have their own script language, so some plugins can use Jscript and others Lua.

There must be a way of find a single word in Jscript, I suggest Google.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Halig   Portugal  (123 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #28 on Fri 13 Feb 2015 07:50 PM (UTC)
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Thank you Nick. I didn't knew that you could turn all the other aliases and triggers into a plugin using diferent languages. Thank you. All is working now.
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