You cannot stick multiple spaces and put control codes after-- that defeats the purpose of putting the control codes. The problem is mIRC converts any instance of multiple spaces to a single space

$chr(32) $+ $chr(32) $+ $chr(32) $+ $chr(2)

is simply

$chr(32) $+ $chr(2)


- argv[0] on EFnet #mIRC
- "Life is a pointer to an integer without a cast"