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gamer1962 posted 17-06-2002 20:07 BST
I thought there was a wya to get quest to ignore the word "the" in a command. Ex.
read the sign
read sign
would be the same command. Is there a way to do this ?
MaDbRiT posted 17-06-2002 20:44 BST
Gamer 1962 wrote;

quote:
I thought there was a wya to get quest to ignore the word "the" in a command. Ex.
read the sign
read sign
I think Quest ignores 'the' in its inbuilt commands already, but for a user command all you need do is add a synonymn making the = a blank space - that'll do it!
Al
Alex posted 18-06-2002 00:23 BST
You can get some nastiness whereby because the "the" becomes nothing, you end up with *two* spaces (from either side of "the"), which can confuse Quest sometimes.
If you're using the #@...# form in your command declarations, any "the" will be automatically ignored, so I recommend using this rather than a synonym.

Author	Topic: Ignoring words in commands
gamer1962	posted 17-06-2002 20:07 BST I thought there was a wya to get quest to ignore the word "the" in a command. Ex. read the sign read sign would be the same command. Is there a way to do this ?
MaDbRiT	posted 17-06-2002 20:44 BST Gamer 1962 wrote; quote: I thought there was a wya to get quest to ignore the word "the" in a command. Ex. read the sign read sign I think Quest ignores 'the' in its inbuilt commands already, but for a user command all you need do is add a synonymn making the = a blank space - that'll do it! Al
Alex	posted 18-06-2002 00:23 BST You can get some nastiness whereby because the "the" becomes nothing, you end up with two spaces (from either side of "the"), which can confuse Quest sometimes. If you're using the #@...# form in your command declarations, any "the" will be automatically ignored, so I recommend using this rather than a synonym.