Mudlet: Aliases – Help Please!

[Kaiser]

What am I doing wrong here:

Name: Neutralize Grenade
Pattern: ^ng(.+)$

Lua Code:
local target = matches [2]
send (“Neutralize” .. target)

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[Pingpongspiders]

matches[2] shouldn’t have a space

[Kaiser]

Unfortunately that wasn’t the issue, it wasn’t spaced in the actual lua code, just human error here on the forums.

[Stacy]

The issue is that you’re trying to neutralize things. 🙂 (kidding)

Try:
Pattern: ^ng(.*)$

Lua:
local target = matches [2]
send (“Neutralize” .. target)

Notably, I think it was your pattern that was messed up. Using + in the code doesn’t work for matches[2]. It’s better to use * to take everything after the command.

-Stacy

[Kaiser]

That doesn’t register either, and when I drop the .. and target it asks me whom to ng, but doesn’t work in combat. So I don’t know what the hang up is.

[Stacy]

Oh right! I tried to shorten it too much.

Use the pattern I suggested (^ng(.*)$),

but use this LUA instead:
———————————————————————————–
local maincommand = “neutralize”
if matches[2] then
local maincommand = neutralize .. matches[2]
end
send(maincommand)
———————————————————————————-

I tested this one and it works on my client. It should respond with needing a target if you type ng alone, and if you type ng <target> it’ll replace it.

Hopefully this helps.

– Stacy

[Stacy]

(I apparently can’t edit the posts, but just delete the second local after if matches[2] and it’ll work. I manually typed it instead of copying it. Oops!

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