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I was tring to make a script that will msg a chan if the name contains a wild card. The problem is I cant figure out how to get it to work.

I started to think that i would need to use variables but not sure. Thanks for any help

First thing, it's a bad idea to make an alias "msg", as that will override the default msg command, which isn't a good idea unless you absolutely know what you're doing.

Second, I can't really help you because... you don't make much sense to me.

You want to message something to a channel, but only if the channel contains an asterisk "*" in it? And when exactly do you want to message this, like in what event?

Elaborate please. Help us help you.

what i mean by *help is there are different help rooms. So if any of the rooms that I am in has help in the name I want it to msg that chan. As far as when, I was hoping to use timer for that. What I came up with is to create an alias that checks to see if the room im in has help in the name, and if it does msg it. Then set the timer to /timermsg 0 30 alias. That was the best way I knew how to do it.

Same comment as in your other thread: isin doesnt accept wildcards, you should use:

if (help isin $chan)

or

if (*help* iswm $chan)

Btw, $chan will evaluate to whatever channel is active when the timer triggers, which could be any chan.

thanks for the wild card info, it will work when i am in that room as you said. How can I get it to check all the chans that I am on? That is my problem. I was thinking that you would use a variable but could not figure it out.

If you want to check all channels that you are in on a certain network, you can loop through $comchan.

/help $comchan

I say $comchan and not $chan, as $chan doesn't make a distinction between open channels, and channel windows that you haven't rejoined after a reconnect.

I don't know if you know how to do loops in mIRC but it would be something like this:

var %i = 1
while ($comchan($me,%i)) {
echo -a Chan %i - $ifmatch
inc %i
}

or

var %i = 1, %ii = $comchan($me,0)
while (%i <= %ii) {
echo -a Chan %i - $comchan($me,%i)
inc %i
}

var %i = $comchan($me,0)
while (%i) {
echo -a $comchan($me,%i)
dec %i
}

etc. there are a couple more variations possible but you get the picture.

You could also check with $dde, but that has some drawbacks, that make it not worth using it.

Thank you fiberoptics! I understand it now and got it to work. I do have one more question tho. After look at the help file I wanted to use a variable for the timer. I used

then this for the timer

Ok i figured this out but it set the delay to 1 sec. Not sure what I did.