Forums Scripts & Popups !(nick ison #) help

I've given up trying to search through the help files any longer, because I've come to realise the problem is I don't know what I'm doing.

What I'm trying to do, is create a script (on text) that will be able to tell if someone says, " !<any nick in the nicklist> " and have the script be able to tell if "whatever follows" the apostrophe is a nick on the channel, then have a reaction.

I have been messing around far too much with things like
if ($left($1-,1) == $char33) and && ($right($left($1-,1) ison #))) (the last part I know is wrong) and the like, and I've determined that I won't get this without some help. Enough failure already! lol
Anyone with any clue as to how I can get this to work, the help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Go with what greeny gave you.

Anyway, wanted to let you know where you got mixed up.


($left($1-,1) == $char33) and && ($right($left($1-,1) ison #)))

• $char33 should be $chr(33), but in this case you can even specify the exclamation mark directly.
  
  if $left($1,1) == !
  
• $right($left($1-,1) ison #
  
  Here's where you got mixed up.
  
  You were looking for: $right($1,-1) or $mid($1,2)
  
  * $right(string,N) normally returns the N characters of string, starting from the right. Though if we use a negative value, $right will work in a different way.
  
  * $right(string,-N) returns the string, with N characters cut off from the beginning.
  
  $right(!filedumphere,-1) = filedumphere
  $right(!filedumphere,-2) = iledumphere
  $right(!filedumphere,-3) = ledumphere
  ...
  
  * $mid(string,S,N) returns the string, starting at point S, N characters long.
  
  $mid(!filedumphere,1,5) = !file
  $mid(!filedumphere,6,4) = dump
  $mid(!filedumphere,2) = filedumphere (no N parameter was given, so $mid will take any text following the S starting point)
  
  
• We end with: if ($left($1,1) == !) && ($right($1,-1) ison #) { do things }
  
  
• Note that I specify $1 and not $1-, because a nickname cannot consist of spaces, we only need to reference the first space delimited token, which will be the nickname preceeded by an exclamation mark.

Greets

Thanks for the response and the detailed description. I learned a lot from it I used what greeny posted as well as yours, and they both worked. I knew I was close, just not close enough.

Glad to hear you could learn from it. I learned a lot from these boards as well, it's only right I return the favor.

Greets