Nexus-How to capture a whole line of text in an alias.

Shreg

Does anyone know how to capture a whole line of text in a variable?  For example, I would like to be able to do something like this:

Alias:  doThis <command>

I input:  "doThis outr myrrh; eat myrrh"

I want it to capture all of  "outr myrrh; eat myrrh" in the variable @command.  It won't. So how do I rework this?

Note:  With the above alias it will only capture one word in @command, evin if "Starts With" is selected.

Chubbs

Alias: ^doThis (.+)$

Matching Type: Regular Expression

Input: doThis sing suck a dick;sing suck a dick; sing suck a motherfuckin dick;leghump prostitute

Change the action to 'execute script' and inside the script window, place:

set_variable('command', args[1]);

That'll make a variable visible in the variables tab with the above singing and leghumping or whatever you'd like to do.

Don't see why you'd want to save the command into a variable unless you're going to have a different alias or trigger send or process it at a later time though.

ETA: Spacing sucks. When you do regex, the individual items captured are noted by the parenthesis and accessible through the args identifier. So, for another example, if you had the trigger:
^(\w+) almost falls as the hammer crunches home into the bones of (her|his) lower (\w+) leg/.$

and it captures "Bob almost falls as the hammer crunches home into the bones of his lower right leg."

args[0] would be the entire line as was captured (Bob almost falls...)

args[1] would be whatever the (\w+) captures (Bob)

args[2] would be the 'his' or 'her'

args[3] would be whatever the second (\w+) captures (right)

args[4] would break your script because it's undefined 'cause there are only 3 sets of parentheses

Caelan

Can you do "doThis (/S+)"?

Shreg

How would I then reference the captured string?  I need to assign it to a variable that I can then use later. 

Shreg

How would I then reference the captured string?  I need to assign it to a variable that I can then use later.