Don't you mean $read(word.txt,w,$+(*,$1-,*)) ? Besides that, I'm not sure why you would want to be doing a wildcard check on the entire line of text. It's not going to find these words unless they are by themselves in this case. And what if he isn't opped? He'll get an error message.
To the original poster: use the search link at the top as there are about 5000 other topics on here for this exact same thing.
