In your first post, you were given a link into the wikichip site that had documentation for the things you were using there. Well the same site has documentation for this stuff too. The $+ does work if you use it correctly. When a script is created, the command placed into it is evaluated as it's created, and each time it's executed it tries to do the same thing. You should also be sure to click on the link in the right margin about MSL INJECTION, because that shows how it can be dangerous to put $1- into a timer if it contains a string that some other nick created. So if you create it like
//timerfoo 5 1 echo -a $time | timerfoo
that creates a string containing the time when the timer was created, and echoes it 5 different times. And the /timername command shows the command placed into the timer. Using $!identifier prevents the identifier from evaluating right now, and the '!' is removed from the command. However if that leaves behind something that's a valid identifier, that creates a command that evaluates each time the timer is triggered:
//timerfoo 5 1 echo -a $!time or $eval($time,0) | timerfoo
If you want the timer to echo the 5 letter word that begins with the dollar, then you need to create a string that won't evaluate then:
//timerfoo 5 1 echo -a $!!time or $!eval($time,0) but not $eval($time,0) | timerfoo
If you want to avoid a lot of complexity, it can be simpler to just create a custom alias, and then use
//timerfoo 5 1 aliasname
alias aliasname {
echo -a $time or $!time or $!!time | timerfoo
}
... and since this can't be identified, you can put normal type commands and identifiers inside the alias. And if you need to have parameters, you can pass them on the command line, as long as none of them will be other than a constant number of 'words' which would make it unpredictable what the alias sees $3 to be.
As I demonstrated above, you can immediately echo your timer's command line, with a shorter time interval, so you can see what's being created, which gives clues about why something isn't working right.
//timerUserCount 5 1 echo -s write -N1 usercounts.csv $!date $!+ , $!+ $!time $!+ , $!+ $!nick(#mychan,0) | timerusercount
A good test can be to find a network that lets you join a channel that's the length 1 string # to see how your scripts interact with it while your active channel is something else, due to the fact that # and $chan are the same thing. If you want to echo the # symbol, you don't want it echoing the active channel at the time you created the timer, and you don't want it to use the active channel at the time the timer executes, either:
//var -s %var $chr(35) | timerfoo 5 1 echo -a $eval(%var,0) vs %var vs $unsafe( %var ) | timerfoo
