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print(os.date ("%c")) works with script prefix but alias doesn't.

print(os.date ("%c")) works with script prefix but alias doesn't.

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Posted by Zack (10 posts) bio

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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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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!

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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (22,556 posts) bio Forum Administrator

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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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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.


print(os.date ("%%c"))

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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Posted by

Fiendish USA (2,315 posts)

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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

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Posted by

Zack (10 posts)

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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.

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Posted by

Nick Gammon Australia (22,556 posts)

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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

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Posted by

Nick Gammon Australia (22,556 posts)

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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

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