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When I'm using the alias on *:TEXT:, how do I enclose a sentence who is gonna be the TEXT?

You see the TEXT contains colons ans other character that may ruin the code.

I tried this:

but it does not work. I guess it's just me who's beeing stupid, but i really nedd help for this one. What characters do I use to enclose a TEXT-line ?


2nd question: Do I need color/bald-tags in the code to make it react on color/bald text in the channel ?

On Text is an event, not an alias hehe.



The following event is triggered one says "this is: live" and will only work in the channel #Channel.

And yes it will pick it up using colours.

-Andy

Oh, an early-morning typo there :P

Tnx for the help ! =)

BTW: I have this little thing:



It picks out the lines I want and presents them in @LAS - but the window does now get highlighted (-g2) when a new line appears - I guess I've done something wrong here. Can anyone help me out ?

Firgured that last one out by myself

From what I understand you said you dont actually want the " " ? but you want to capture with color and bold etc in it?

on $*:text:$($+(/^\Qthis is,$chr(58),$chr(32),live\E/iS)):#channel:{ /say lala }

your doing 3 levels of stuff here
1) $+(/^\Qthis is,$chr(58),$chr(32),live\E/iS) >>> this builds a single string /^\Qthis is: live\E/iS $chr(58) is a : , $chr(32) is a space, if oyu needed a , you must user $chr(44)
2) $( ) >>> this allows you to insert a string into the matchtext field
So if you could write it with out problems it would now look like
on $*:text:/^\Qthis is: live\E/iS:#channel:{ /say lala }
This is a regex and it says look for at the start of text for the string "this is: live" and ignore burko codes

But honestly some times i think its easier just doing
on *:text:*:#channel:{ if ($strip($1-) == this is: live) { /say lala } }

Hi Dave,

you could have omitted the $eval in the matchtext part and use the hex representation for : being \x3A or its octal version \072 (or \72, if there are less than 72 previous capturing subpatterns)

For the space you could have used \s or simply an actual space.

The \Q...\E construct wasn't needed since there are no characters which have a special meaning in the string.

So basically it would come down to this:

on $*:TEXT:/^this is\72 live$/Si:#channel: msg # lala

I agree, the regular simple method is more than sufficient for something trivial like this.

Greets

Yes but you see theres a good reason I didnt do that.

Its well ummm err well basiclly its ahhhhh, becuase im not very good with regex

And i even forget the $ to mark it as exact text mine was blah blah * wasnt it <groan>

Oh but i did give him the \Q \E on purpose since you know what would come next if i didnt (but only if i didnt), a reply "it didnt work when i looked for !help* +water"

Tnx for the help all of you! =)

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