In fact, when you want to pass the filename to an identifier (and not a command), you don't even need to use its short name:
//echo -a $read(ambience\hi $chr(32) test.txt)
I knew about not having to use short filenames or double quotes in files for identifiers, I assumed mIRC would read hi $chr(32) test.txt the same way it would hi<3 spaces>.txt and strip extra spaces.
I used a short filename because there aren't any spaces in them
Thanks though, it's always good to have more than one way of doing things.
