Hm... those may be interesting. As far as COM... never messed with it (yet). For sockets, see
http://www.arrowweb.com/jeremy/IRCWeather.html .
Anyhow, I'm running into issues with $regex/$regsub. I understand searching for items and replacing them. However, I can't seem to figure out how to determine how many changes and such... (can't really explain... I'll demonstrate):
1234 = 1,234 (one replacement)
12345 = 12,345 (one replacement)
123456 = 123,456 (one replacement)
1234567 = 1,234,567 (two replacements)
etc.
Now, I can make it mess around with one replacement with this...
$regsub($1,[0-9]{3}\b,$chr(44) $+ $right($1,3),%commas)
Yes, I'm certain there's a better substifute format.... I'm trying

My problem is trying to make it do the second (or third or whatever number) replacement.
If you can give me a hint of some sort to get me on the right track without actually giving the answer, I'd appreciate that.