Perform task from rednet message

Is there a way for a turtle to get a message over rednet and perform the specified task?

Something like this

while true do
   Id, msg, protocol = rednet.receive()
   msg
end

where the message would be "turtle.forward()"

I know this works,

while true do
   Id, msg, protocol = rednet.receive()
   if msg == "turtle.forward()" then
	  turtle.forward()
   end
end

but its very time consuming to do this for every possible action

KingofGamesYami, on 05 September 2014 - 10:40 PM said:

loadstring( string )

Thank you so much!
I often times forget that LUA has its own documentation, I'll be sure to look around more next time :D/>

XMrPotatoX, on 05 September 2014 - 11:05 PM said:

KingofGamesYami, on 05 September 2014 - 10:40 PM said:

loadstring( string )

Thank you so much!
I often times forget that LUA has its own documentation, I'll be sure to look around more next time :D/>

Personally I would of just used a set of pre-coded controls? So use a pocket computer (if using 1.6x) and you can use forward, backward, turn left and right etc. This is a lot more time consuming but once done, could be very handy.

DannySMc, on 08 September 2014 - 12:07 PM said:

Personally I would of just used a set of pre-coded controls? So use a pocket computer (if using 1.6x) and you can use forward, backward, turn left and right etc. This is a lot more time consuming but once done, could be very handy.

Yeah, I was doing something like that at first. But then I wanted to input commands from outside Minecraft. The rednet example was just the easiest way to explain what I was asking.

This is what I ended up doing in case you were wondering,