Contents of variable from within a script

I want to access the contents of a variable from a script-text.

How is that done?

I can't write "Send ("wield @weapon")" - which would not, as desired, result in wield (dagger, sword or whip or whatever the contents of the variable "weapon" is).

Thank you.

// Mazarin

Is this inside an alias "send to script"? Or inside a script file?

In either case, you can do this:



This is getting the MUSHclient variable "weapon", not the script variable "weapon".

But, however the command

Send ("wield " GetVariable("weapon"))

will not work but gives an error message (msg = [string "Trigger: "]:1: ')' expected near 'GetVariable'). I think that what is needed is some type of concatenation of the string "wield" with the contents of the variable "weapon", but how to do that is more than i know.

Anybody, help, please?

//Mazarin

Better look up the Lua reference, huh?

But concatenation is easy enough:



In fact, didn't I say exactly that earlier up?

Hi, I'm still building my combat aliases.

Now, how can I address the contents of the string in the variable "%1" - is it a variable - from within a script alias. I would like to write to the mud the command "cast missile mule", "cast chill horse" or "cast heal Mazarin" etc. From within a command alias I would use "cast MySpell %1" (when the variable MySpell has the contents of "missile", "chill" and "heal" respectively) and %1 is entered from the keyboard? Howto do this from within a scriptalias?

The commandline - I'm trying to send the command "kick", which is the content of the variable "attackskill" - in

Send ("" .. GetVariable("attackskill"))

works (sends "kick or whatever is in "attackskill")to the MUD but the commandline

Send GetVariable("attackskill")

does not, but gives error message "[string "Alias: "]:1: '=' expected near 'GetVariable'"? Seems odd to me?

Any help. Thank you.

//Mazarin

The parentheses are required (minus a couple exceptions). In Lua, a variable (i.e. Send) followed by parentheses is interpreted as a function call. Your second example doesn't have this syntactic cue, so Lua doesn't understand what you're trying to do.

This is quite clear. The sentence to to be sent is to be imbedded in parenthecis while the quotation marks have a different meaning. This was not clear to me. Thank you for the advice.

I noticed i had made a mistake in my previous post when i wrote that I wish to give the same command as in a within-alias script of "cast MySpell %1". I would of course like to send the command "cast @MySpell %1", that is send to the mud a command like "cast kick mule" or "cast heal Mazarin" or any similar command, ie. the spellname followed by my input.

Now my question is: how do I accomplish this? How do i write a command containing as well the contents of a variable as the input from the keyboard to the MUD?

Thank you.

//Mazarin


Nevermind. I found the solution. Thanks anyway.

//M.

So how would you do the same thing, but with the script variable "weapon"? Or what command is needed to use an array value? Would arrays be any different?

I tried to use the above on my variable, which contains an array, and I received a nil value. I guess this is expected since it only works for MushClient variables.

An example-- if I'm trying to (hypothetically):

This would be a Lua variable - you can serialize Lua variables into MUSHclient variables for saving over sessions.

Thanks! I'm going to give it a shot.