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zhenzh
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command separator incorrectly parsed

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When I try running lua send() from input command line, separators were parsed incorrectly.

For example, I'm using ; as separator and will send a batch of commands from lua.
I used:

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lua send("north;north;north")
While the command was considered as send("north, north, north") 3 parts which lead to input failure.

It would be better to avoid separators being parsed within a pair of "

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Vadi
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Re: command separator incorrectly parsed

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For this particular example you can use the speedwalk function: https://wiki.mudlet.org/w/Manual:Mapper ... #speedwalk

lua speedwalk("north,north,north")

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How about the other non-walk comands?
When I try to do send("north;look;south")

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Don't use send? It's redundant - just type north;look;south - and you get the result :)

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I use send here for there are some additional lua judgement around, for example:

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if string.match(line, "north") then
    send("north;look;south")
else
    send("south;look;north")
end
Besides, the # repeat script may also be impacted.
When I run #3 north;look to expect the result north;look;north;look;north;look

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This seems like it should go into an alias, not the input line, don't you think?

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Yes, it can be processed in an alias as a work around.
Just wonder whether there will be a better solution as some times I may run a batch of lua commands from input cli for debugging.
I have to create some temp aliases and edit them again and again for different trouble shooting purpose. Updating lua from input directly will be much more convenient.

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Changing the command separator to something else would do the trick - like ;;

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Then, the send command will also be changed to send("north;;look").
Or, the "north;look" will be considered as the entire string and the ; will not be parsed as separator.

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Yes, that's what you want, correct?

If you'd like to send separate commands, the right way to do this is to use sendAll()

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