Forums Feature Suggestions $isalias(alias*,0)

an identifier like this... i think is a good idea.

Should that do something too? And if so, would you mind explaining it?

The problem with your suggestion is, (1) There is an identifier called that already, (2) we dont know what you expected it to return, (3) alias* is a valid alias name so may or maynot ment to be a wildcard.

Well it's blatantly obvious that he's suggesting that $isalias() accept a wildcard and a second, 'N', parameter to return info for the Nth matching alias name.

(1) alias name is in use, WOULDNT seem a problem until you have a closer look at what alias names can be (see 3)

(2) I never said i didnt understand what he wanted it to do, i said "we dont know what you expected it to return"
//echo -a $isalias(GLOB*,0)
4
//echo -a $isalias(GLOB*,1)
$true or Global.rebuild.lists

(3) alias* is a valid alias name and not nessaserily a wildcard for that matter GLOB*,0 is a valid alias name
alias GLOB*,0 { echo Mahahahaha }
/GLOB*,0
Mahahahaha

* Ok ok you gotta be pretty wack to be using that as an alias name but well it is there!

The fact that wildcard characters and commas can be in alias names is not a problem. mIRC scripting's evaluation of identifiers requires that an alias name containing a comma couldn't be put in directly anyway. This means that the presence of a literal comma shows that the scripter is passing more than one parameter, at which point mIRC knows to treat wildcard characters appropriately instead of as plain-text. No problem here at all.

As for what it would return, well it seems pretty clear to use the basic logic behind every other N-parameter-driven identifier: $isalias(blah*,0) returns the number of matches; $isalias(blah*,N) returns info about the Nth matching alias.