you mean something like this?

Code:
 c {
  if ($1 == 1) return 0
  if ($1 == 2) return 2
  if ($1 == 3) return 3
  if ($1 == 4) return 4
  if ($1 == 5) return 5
  if ($1 == 6) return 6
  if ($1 == 7) return 7
  if ($1 == 8) return 8
  if ($1 == 9) return 9
  if ($1 == 10) return 10
  if ($1 == 11) return 11
  if ($1 == 12) return 12
  if ($1 == 13) return 13
  if ($1 == 14) return 14
  if ($1 == 15) return 15
}


this kinda works, it gets the job done. but, not excatly what i was thinking of.... the way this is you have to space the alias and target to get the result. EG: $c 4 test would return test . can i improve this some, so that it maybe yet a bit shorter in the code strings(plus make it look neater) ?????