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I have some problems, i have made a scripts that posts in to a db by a php page but the variable of the channel (#dutch in this case) wont be posted in to the db.

The problem is the # in the channelname.

How do i strip $chan from #dutch to just "dutch" and set it as %temp.channel ?

$remove(#channelname,$chr(35))

Hi.

//set %temp.channel $gettok($chan,1,35)
//set %temp.channel $remove($chan,$chr(35))
//set %temp.channel $mid($chan,2-,$len($chan))
//tokenize 35 $chan | set %temp.channel $1

There's four examples of how you can do this.

Edit: Changed #dutch to $chan.

-Andy

set %temp.channel $remove($chan,$chr(35))

or

set %temp.channel $right($chan,-1)

EDIT: Sheesh. Can't even reply within 15 minutes without being beat to it by not one, but TWO people.

Channel names can have multiple #'s in it, so using $remove would remove them all.

$mid($chan,2) is all one really needs, which does the same as your solution with $right.

Then again, maybe he didn't know that channel names can contain multiple #'s, and wants them all removed, which would mean the only good solution is, as you first suggested, $remove.

Yeah, I thought about channels having multiple #'s.

I didn't realize the length parameter was optional on $mid. Good to know.

Or simply replace it with a character that's illegal in a channel name, for example: $replace($chan,$(#,),$chr(44))

Why?

Well $chr(44) would not be a very good example to use but as you'd get: ,mIRC but..

$replace($chan,$(#,),$+($chr(32))) would be fine.
$replace($chan,$(#,),$+($chr(3))) would also be fine if characters after the '#' are not numeric.

-Andy

Thankyou all for helping me out here, i used

set %temp.channel $gettok($chan,1,35)

And it works fine. Keep up the good work!!!

So you can retrieve the correct channel name back later, for example:

My method:

Post: (mIRC) #w#e#i#r#d#c#h#a#n#n#e#l# -> (DB) ,w,e,i,r,d,c,h,a,n,n,e,l,
Retrieve: (DB) ,w,e,i,r,d,c,h,a,n,n,e,l, -> (mIRC) #w#e#i#r#d#c#h#a#n#n#e#l#

Your method:

Post: (mIRC) #w#e#i#r#d#c#h#a#n#n#e#l# -> (DB) weirdchannel
Retrieve: (DB) weirdchannel -> (mIRC) weirdchannel

That was why there was the second method posted.

Replacing the #'s with a space will not be fine, since I've specifically stated that channel names can have multiple #'s in them.

It would turn the channel #andy#is#crazy to andy is crazy , which is no longer distinguishable as a channel from regular other text.

Hey, you might want to edit that to:

set %temp.channel $gettok($chan,1-,35)

Otherwise, you won't get the entire channel name if it has other #'s in it.

EDIT: Actually, that won't help either as it will remove the #'s.

You should use either of these instead:

set %temp.channel $mid($chan,2)
set %temp.channel $right($chan,-1)

Well I guess so but I'd never attempt to join a channel with consecutive #'s in it, but if others actually do do it well then it was indeed wrong of me.

-Andy

i used it in the following script:

on 1:join:#:{
if ($nick == $me) {
set %temp.channel $gettok($chan,1,35)
.sockopen devesteservjoin some.server.url 80
.timer12 1 2 .sockwrite -n devesteservjoin GET /beheer/update.php?action=join $+ &nick= $+ $me $+ &channel= $+ %temp.channel HTTP/1.0 $+ $crlf
.timer13 1 2 .sockwrite -n devesteservjoin Accept: */* $+ $crlf
.timer14 1 2 .sockwrite -n devesteservjoin User-Agent: mIRC $+ $crlf
.timer15 1 2 .sockwrite -n devesteservjoin Host: some.server.url $+ $crlf
.timer16 1 2 .sockwrite -n devesteservjoin $crlf
echo 4 -s Updating to server | set %chan.join $chan
}
}
on *:SOCKCLOSE:devesteservjoin:{ /echo 4 -s Http server updated, thank you - Join at %chan.join }

Hmm, why are you using timers to sockwrite to the connection? They serve no purpose as far as I can tell. Btw you don't need to put a $crlf after each header entry, since you are using the 'n' switch from sockwrite, which will append a $crlf already. Anyway, you've been helped accordingly, so I suppose this thread is finished.

Iljan, read me last post (and the edit).

If you try using a channel like #test#1, it won't work correctly as you have it right now. Granted, those types of channel names are few and far between, but better to be safe than sorry.

All he said was that the # in the channel name was the problem, he didn't say it was only a problem if it was at the start of the text so using $right(#channel,-1) could still mess up for things like #channel#.

You might want to add those sockwrite commands inside an IF statement to check if the socket is opened otherwise you'll get an error.



-Andy