Alias for multiple sequential commands?

How do I create an alias c that will cd and then immediately ls?

alias c='cd; ls'

Is there some kind of way to insert a special variable that represents the input? Or is that not the way that alias operates at all?

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Correct. Use a function instead.

c() { cd "$1" ; ls ; }

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