#command?

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ebon lagoon
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what do you need help with?

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@barren wolf?

barren wolf
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i want to know what i would have to do to store the number in the message as a variable to use later for the amount of messages to bulk delete

ebon lagoon
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okay so

barren wolf
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so

ebon lagoon
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const args = message.content.slice(prefix.length).trim().split(/ +/);

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you need this line for getting args

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what it does is

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message.content returns the message that was sent

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so like if i were to send !hello

barren wolf
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  if (message.content.startsWith("H!clear ")){

    

  }``` this is my code btw
ebon lagoon
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it will return !hello

ebon lagoon
barren wolf
ebon lagoon
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if (!message.content.startsWith(prefix) || message.author.bot) return;

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this line checks if the message

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doesnt start with your prefix

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or

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is from a bot

barren wolf
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mhm

ebon lagoon
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and will return

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so the commands dont get ran

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const args = message.content.slice(prefix.length).trim().split(/ +/);

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this line

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what is does it

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lets say

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const prefix = "H!"
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your prefix is this

barren wolf
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yes it is

ebon lagoon
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so

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message.content.slice()

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what is does is

barren wolf
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slices the message content?

ebon lagoon
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it takes an integer as the argument

ebon lagoon
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it slices the front

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so

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lets say

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let content = "H!command"
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your content is this

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if you do

barren wolf
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mhm

ebon lagoon
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content.slice(2)

barren wolf
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it will take off

ebon lagoon
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it will return "command"

barren wolf
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the prefix

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yes

ebon lagoon
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yup

barren wolf
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so

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i want to do a clear

ebon lagoon
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so now we have

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.trim()

barren wolf
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so i would do

ebon lagoon
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ok so now

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trim() just removes trailing spaces

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.split() splits by space

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so now

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we have

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H!clear 10

barren wolf
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yes

ebon lagoon
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args will return ["clear', "10"]

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your command will be

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args.shift()

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which removes the first element and returns it

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so

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now we do

barren wolf
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couldnt i just slice clear too?

ebon lagoon
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so now

barren wolf
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dokily

ebon lagoon
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slice will return an array

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shift will return the element

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which is a string

barren wolf
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ok

ebon lagoon
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so your command

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if command === "clear" {}
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to get the number

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you do

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const toClear = parseInt(args[1])
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parseInt returns a number from a string

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so now

barren wolf
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ok

ebon lagoon
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you want to get the messages

barren wolf
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mhm

ebon lagoon
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so you do

barren wolf
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i do

ebon lagoon
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wait

barren wolf
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ok

ebon lagoon
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im looking at the docs for the method lol

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message.channel.messages

barren wolf
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lol

ebon lagoon
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returns the MessageManager

barren wolf
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couldnt you just do

ebon lagoon
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?

barren wolf
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channel.bulkDelete(n)

ebon lagoon
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no

barren wolf
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why not

ebon lagoon
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wait you can

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sorry

barren wolf
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lol

ebon lagoon
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yaeh just do that

barren wolf
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okily dokily

ebon lagoon
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my bad ahah

barren wolf
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so

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what do i write

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lol

ebon lagoon
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message.channel.bulkDelete(toClear)

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will clear x amount of messages from the channel that the command was sent in

barren wolf
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yes

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but to get the number, would i do this?
message.content.slice(prefix.length).trim().split(/ +/);

ebon lagoon
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no that returns your command + arguments

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so like

barren wolf
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oh

ebon lagoon
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H!clear 10

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that will return

barren wolf
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yesp

ebon lagoon
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["clear", "10"]

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yeah

barren wolf
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mhm

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so would this code be alright

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or no

ebon lagoon
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no

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you need to store the thing in a var

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const Discord = require('discord.js');
const { prefix, token } = require('./config.json');

const client = new Discord.Client();

client.once('ready', () => {
    console.log('Ready!');
});

client.on('message', message => {
    if (!message.content.startsWith(prefix) || message.author.bot) return;

    const args = message.content.slice(prefix.length).trim().split(/ +/);
    const command = args.shift().toLowerCase();

    if (command === 'ping') {
        message.channel.send('Pong.');
    } else if (command === 'beep') {
        message.channel.send('Boop.');
    }
    // ...
});

client.login(token);
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this is a good example

barren wolf
ebon lagoon