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Is there a way to to do this with an alias instead of a trigger?

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Posted by Mike.mac.kenzie   (13 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Fri 01 Mar 2024 07:13 AM (UTC)
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When making a trigger, in the match text you can do "(this|that)" to make the trigger match one word, or another word within the string. Is there a way to do this in the name of an alias so I could have an alias called "(raise|lower) *" so that I could make the alias fire with either word plus something to match the wildcard? "raise thing" "lower thing" would both fire the alias?
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (22,988 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #1 on Fri 01 Mar 2024 07:23 AM (UTC)

Amended on Fri 01 Mar 2024 07:28 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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Yes, just make the alias a regular expression.

It would look like:


^(raise|lower) (.*)$


Since the thing you want to raise or lower is now the second capture you would act on wildcard 2, not wildcard 1.


Or you could do it like this:



^(?:raise|lower) (.*)$


Then the thing you raise or lower is now wildcard #1.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Mike.mac.kenzie   (13 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #2 on Fri 01 Mar 2024 07:32 AM (UTC)
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That's what I was doing wrong! So simple... thanks Nick!
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