Forums Scripts & Popups Token help needed.

Having problems correctly implement the use of tokens.

Did read help file and it looked simple but as i search the forum or web i see so many exotic token strings which makes my head roll.

i started very simple:
on *:TEXT:*:#: {
var %line $strip($1-,burc)
var %text = $gettok(%line,5,32)
/echo -a %text
}

But in some cases i have some text in the grabbed text that i don't need, example blabla/The.text.needed

Before the use of tokens i just used something like this
$right($strip($8),-5) but first checked if there was \ in line and then started striping

How do i use that using tokens?