alias with consecutive characters

Posted by Jesse P Bunker on Fri 16 Oct 2020 12:38 PM — 4 posts, 18,985 views.

Jesse P Bunker Fri 16 Oct 2020 12:38 PM #0

I would like to make an alias as follows and can't seem to figure it out or find a reference on the forums.

r* returns
r%1
r%2
r%3

so rstc returns
rs
rt
rc

I can't figure out how to make a wildcard that only matches a single character.

Also, Nick, thank you so much for all your hard work!

Fiendish USA Global Moderator Fri 16 Oct 2020 03:14 PM #1

Use a regular expression pattern instead.

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Fri 16 Oct 2020 11:26 PM #2

A little bit of scripting lets you break up the wildcard (stc) into individual letters:


<aliases>
  <alias
   match="r*"
   enabled="y"
   send_to="12"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>

for c in string.gmatch ("%1", "%a") do
  Send ("r" .. c)
end -- for

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

For advice on how to copy the above, and paste it into MUSHclient, please see Pasting XML.

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Sat 17 Oct 2020 12:54 AM #3

If it was always 3 letters then Fiendish's suggestion would work, that is a regular expression:


^r(.)(.)(.)$

That would match 3 characters and each one would be their own wildcard (ie. %1, %2, %3).