The code actually didn't work for only one reason: there's a bot relaying messages from another channel, the relayed message are of the form nickname message, the matchtext of the on text event is expecting %c $+ player as the first word, which is obviously not possible in that case, he wanted the code to work in both situation.
You clearly missed that part and I was pointing it out smile


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