Could you tell me please what the significance of the ! symbol is in the first line?
! does usually negate whatever follows, but in this case, the ! prefix prevents the script from running if you(r bot) (whoever has the script) are the one who causes it to trigger... so that on the off chance that you(r bot) somehow has a blacklisted address, it won't try to ban itself.
I had tried using elseif but I guess I got that all screwed up because I couldn't get it to work. What is the difference between else and elseif?
The primary difference between elseif and else is that elseif requires some sort of condition to work. Else statements can be used to mark the last resort of a "conditional ladder", let's call it, and essentially means "if none of the other conditions above in this conditional ladder were true, and there are no other possible conditions to check, then do this". The reason I used else rather than elseif in the code above is because when the first condition (if (X isop #)) fails, then there are no more conditions that need to be checked, but you still want the script to perform an action, so as a "last resort", it performs a /ban and /kick.however, would I still use just the # symbol in the script or $chan, or do they both basically represent the same thing?
Yes,
# is just a shorthand for
$chan (but not
$chan(), which takes arguments... but that's not important right now)
This script will be used for several bans (condensing several small ban scripts) so each ban would be in () and seperated by || . Is there a limit to how many bans a script like this can handle comfortably?
I don't think there is necessarily a limit for the scripting engine, however, like judge2020 mentions, this, for you, can quickly become a terrible way to manage the address blacklist. Instead, you should store the addresses separately in some kind of database/list (such as a text file, but the users list could also work well), and check against that [database/list] within the script...
For example:... I will provide an example script here soon but first I need to figure out why something (related to the users list) isn't working ...
(Btw, I've added the @ prefix to my previous example script, which allows the script to run only if you(r bot) is opped in the channel it triggers in...)
