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I am trying to /write the contents of /ulist protect to a text file. However, when I try to do so, the resulting file merely contains the text "/ulist protect" instead of the information resulting from /ulist protect. My question is, how to I write information fron a /command to a file instead of writing the text of the command to a file?

I am currently getting around this problem with:

Code:

  if (1 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write -c C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,1) }
  if (2 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,2) }
  if (3 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,3) }
  if (4 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,4) }
  if (5 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,5) }
  if (6 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,6) }
  if (7 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,7) }
  if (8 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,8) }
  if (9 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,9) }
  if (10 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,10) }
  if (11 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,11) }
  if (12 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,12) }
  if (13 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,13) }
  if (14 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,14) }
  if (15 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,15) }
  if (16 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,16) }
  if (17 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,17) }
  if (18 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,18) }
  if (19 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,19) }
  if (20 <= $ulist(*,protect)) { /write C:\IcyBot2\Scripts\protect_list.txt $ulist(*,protect,20) }

Well, you could do:

Code:

//window -eh @temp | editbox -n @temp //ulist protect $(|) savebuf @temp ulist.txt $(|) close -@ @temp

...but that's ugly.

You'd be better off using a while loop.

Code:

alias While_Loop {
  var %x = 1
  while (%x <= $ulist(*,Protect,0)) { 
    write -c Location_Here\Protext_List.txt $ulist(*,Protext,%x) 
    inc %x
  }
}

hope this helps =)

It is bad form to use an identifier in the condition statement of a while loop, because it is evaluated everytime it loops to the top. You should do something like this instead:

Code:


alias While_Loop {
  var %x = 1, %xx = $ulist(*,Protect,0)
  while (%x <= %xx) { 
    write -c Location_Here\Protext_List.txt $ulist(*,Protext,%x) 
    inc %x
  }
}

-genius_at_work

So there is really no way to get the /write to put the data from the command in the file instead of the command without doing something like this?

No.

-genius_at_work