Forums mIRC Help wildcards in mirc

hello

can you tell me please about wildcards in mirc?

a character can be:

1)letter = a,b,c,d,... (all 24 of english alphabet)
2)digit = 0,1,2,3,... (all natural numbers)
3)symbol = !@#$%^&*(){}[]:";',./<>?\|`~
4)space

how can I use a wildcard to represent each of the above? I want to represent the occurance of

1)one letter (any letter)
2)one digit (any digit)
3)one symbol (any symbol)
4)zero or more letters
5)zero or more digits
6)zero or more symbols

I already know that

* = zero or more characters (letter, digit, symbol, space)
? = one character (letter, digit, symbol, space)

what about the others above?

another thing I d like to ask is in which sections are wildcards permitted in mirc and in which not

thanks

There are 26 letters in the English alphabet.

You can't use mIRC wildcards to match those specific things.

Depending on what you're trying to do, you may be able to use Regular Expressions instead.

thanks

can I use regex in ignore list?

lets say I want to ignore nicknames that beging with a, end in c and consist of 3 characters

I dont know regex well. Take this as an idea, and not as something you should trust to do what you want.
This will ignore 3 character nicknames that begin with a and end in c......BUT DOES NOT CONSIDER ANY CHARACTERS besides a-z and 1-9. I dont know how to check for the other chars /shrug

ON ^*:TEXT:*:*:{
if ($regex($nick,[Aa][Aa-zZ0-9][Cc])) {
ignore $nick
close -m $nick
halt
}
}