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➜ print(os.date ("%c")) works with script prefix but alias doesn't.
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print(os.date ("%c")) works with script prefix but alias doesn't.
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| Posted by
| Zack
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| Mon 26 Oct 2020 08:56 PM (UTC) Amended on Mon 26 Oct 2020 10:32 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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| Message
| Hello.
I'm trying to get print(os.date ("%c")) working inside of an alias. My script prefix is / so when I'm in the normal window where I can send commands to the mud and I use / it works great. When I put print(os.date ("%c")) inside of the send field for the alias it gives me problems.
My goal is to have a trigger fire the alias or have the trigger directly use print(os.date ("%c but so far nothing is working.
the current alias...
<aliases>
<alias
match="time"
enabled="y"
send_to="12"
sequence="100"
>
<send>print(os.date ("%c"))</send>
</alias>
</aliases>
Error message...
Compile error
World: dw
Immediate execution
[string "Alias: "]:1: unfinished string near '"<aliases>'
Here's the error message from the trigger attempting to print.
Compile error
World: dw
Immediate execution
[string "Command line"]:1: '=' expected near '<eof>'
Thank you for your help! | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,070 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #1 on Mon 26 Oct 2020 09:18 PM (UTC) Amended on Mon 26 Oct 2020 10:33 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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| Message
| Inside an alias (and a trigger) "Send" box, the sequence %x where x is various letters and digits has a special meaning, as documented here:
http://www.gammon.com.au/scripts/doc.php?dialog=IDD_EDIT_ALIAS
In particular, %1 is the first wildcard, %2 the second wildcard, and so on. And, %c is the clipboard contents.
To pass "%c" down to Lua you need to double the % symbols, eg.
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Fiendish
USA (2,533 posts) Bio
Global Moderator |
| Date
| Reply #2 on Mon 26 Oct 2020 09:23 PM (UTC) |
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Quote:
Inside an alias
Inside a <send> </send> xml block, because it will happen for triggers too. |
https://github.com/fiendish/aardwolfclientpackage | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Zack
(23 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #3 on Mon 26 Oct 2020 09:28 PM (UTC) |
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| Thank you so much Nick. I totally forgot about that being the norm. I use %1 all the time and it didn't even click in my brain that it was the issue.
I got it working now. Also thank you for making such an awesome accessible mud client! I love MC. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,070 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
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| Reply #4 on Mon 26 Oct 2020 10:33 PM (UTC) |
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Fiendish said:
Quote:
Inside an alias
Inside a <send> </send> xml block, because it will happen for triggers too.
Amended my reply to make that clearer. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,070 posts) Bio
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| Reply #5 on Mon 26 Oct 2020 10:36 PM (UTC) |
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| This happens more generally in trigger and alias "send" boxes, using send-to-script. For example, doing a string.match, and using %c to detect control characters would have a similar issue.
In those cases you should double the "%" symbols if you are using them other than for their intended purposes (wildcard 1, wildcard 2 etc.).
In fact, it is somewhat simpler in many ways to call a script function in your script file (and not use send-to-script) because functions inside your script file do not have these problems. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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