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WQYeo
WQYeo

Reputation: 4056

Taking whole message string as an argument

I want my bot to take the whole message after the command as a whole argument. But right now this is the situation :
When I type "!math 1 + 3" it only takes "1" as an argument. I want the bot to takes the whole string of "1 + 3" as an argument instead.

This is my code :

    [Command("math")]
            public async Task Calculate(string equation)
            {
                string result = new DataTable().Compute(equation, null).ToString();
//Basically to calculate from the string to find the result
                if (result == "NaN")
                {
                    await Context.Channel.SendMessageAsync("Infinity or undefined");
                }
                else
                {
                    await Context.Channel.SendMessageAsync(result);
                }
            }

I am currently using Discord.NET v1.0

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2186

Answers (3)

nullptrcore
nullptrcore

Reputation: 3

If anyone else not using Discord.NET

public async Task Calc(CommandContext ctx, [RemainingText] string equation)

Upvotes: 0

Sentinent
Sentinent

Reputation: 381

Like Claudiu said, you can enclose the arguments in quotes, or...

Use the [Remainder] attribute like so, 

[Command("math")]
public async Task Calculate([Remainder]string equation)
{
    // Now equation will be everything after !math
    // Your code here
}

P.S.: Ask future Discord.Net questions in our Discord Server (look for #dotnet_discord-net), you'll get your answer much quicker.

Upvotes: 3

Claudiu Tomescu
Claudiu Tomescu

Reputation: 194

Typically you should enclose in quotes arguments that contain spaces. For example:

application.exe "some argument that contains spaces"

Upvotes: 1

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