//echo -a Blahblhablha $hide(LOL) blahblha
alias hide {
return $replace($1,$1,$str($chr(42),$len($1)))
}
And what if the text contains spaces, punctuation or other non-word characters?
//echo -a $hide(It's some text!) --> ***************
Technically, that result is correct, but for the sake of a trivia bot should be **'* **** ****!
You could correct that by modifying the code similar to the following:
alias hide {
var %t = $replace($1,$chr(32),$chr(160)), %i = 1, %l = $len(%t), %h
while (%i <= %l) {
if ($mid(%t,%i,1) isalnum) %h = $+(%h,*)
else %h = $+(%h,$mid(%t,%i,1))
inc %i
}
return $replace(%h,$chr(160),$chr(32))
}//echo -a $hide(It's some text!) --> **'* **** ****!
However, that's slow and ugly. It can be reduced to a simple regsubex that accomplishes the same task much faster, especially when dealing with long strings of text.
alias hide return $regsubex($1,/([^\W_]+)/g,$str(*,$len(\t)))
//echo -a $hide(#1 trivia superstar!) --> #* ****** *********!
Note: mIRC 6.17 is required to use $regsubex.
