I am trying to use non-capturing parenthesis in an on-text regex:

but it fails every time. I tried:

and it matched just fine.

Could some one tell me why this isn't working?

Thanks.
-Terrab

The : is a special character in event definitions, so you cannot use the non-capturing ?:

You can't use : directly in an event for the reason hixxy gave, however you can use $() around the matchtext to make mIRC evaluate it beforehand so that you can use $chr(58) in place of :.

ie.

I never thought of doing that before. Good idea.