Forums Feature Suggestions subtokenize

I have ran into several instances, where I still need like $1 $2 etc, I have to push these into local variables before I tokenize so I dont loose these items. subtokenize would be nice to fill like $s1 $s2 $s1- all like $1 (etc), sure I guess you could local var $1-, tokenize, do your matching, then tokenize the local var again, but why? main reason I use tokenize is because it saves processing time when you need more than one instance from a particular string... like say you need token 1,3, and 6... tokenize (int) string | echo -a $1 $3 $6 works far better than individual gettoks, gettok is faster and more conveniant if you only need to pull one or a string of tokens at the same time like 1, 2, 3, or 2-3, or 3-, etc.... gettok from the same string several times deters performance because mirc has to re-split the string each time, where tokenize splits it once, and fills values...

Presonally, don't like the idea.

Not sure if this is exactly what you want, but I wrote a snippet that does something similar.

nice snippet, I dont like the idea of throwing a pile of instant aliases in myself, but it does seem like it would be the best way in this case (so ill shut up about that lol)

I did notice in the on load for it a NOOP, didnt that only come in in 6.16? so if your reporting that they have a version before that while using that command?!?!??!?!

Yeah I did that in a few of my snippets without thinking about it :tongue: I thought I'd got them all updated, but I must've missed that one. Thanks.

long strings would be a little taxing surely it could be done with a similar useage efficiency using hash tables and read back as
$x(name,0) : 3
$x(name,1) : hello
$x(name,1-2) : hello world
$x(name,1-3) : hello world x
$x(name,1-) : hello world x
$x(name,2) : world
$x(name,2-3) : world x
$x(name,2-) : world x
$x(name,3) : x
$x(name,-1) : x
$x(name,-2) : world
$x(name,-3) : hello
saving overwriting alias's sure its a few chars more but doesnt creating alias's write to a file? hence performance hit?
i kind of dout we're going to get some special named tokenize command like /ntokenize <name> <char> <string>
and return it using ~name0 ~name-1 ~name1-3,5 etc
which brings me to,
/alias test123 { echo x $1-2,4 }
/test123 echo's x 1 2
sometime its a pity you cant just use ranges and seperate some by commas. althought probably easy enough to use hash tables as i said above and parse accordingly. ie -1,-3 (outputs last and 3rd last 'words')

It more than likely does write to a file. I don't see it being particularly slow unless you end up with something like $s1-50

What you want could only be created using an internal command becuase using an alias I beleive the proccessing time of calling the alias that sorts out what you want is likely to exceed the time it would take to simply do the $GETTOK.
PS: u also missed $x(name,-3-) which is just another thing u would have to code for as well, all this code being executed verse one internal command
I would bet the internal command beats it every time, your just passing a string and some 2 or 3 parameters to a internal routine.

Now i would suggest you look at $regex & $regml as i believe this may with some understanding (more than mine) well do exactly what you ask, or very close to it.

arrays could do it even more efficiently and just use something like php's explode() function and you've got pizza.. or something...

Did you read this bit "Now i would suggest you look at $regex & $regml as i believe this may with some understanding (more than mine) well do exactly what you ask, or very close to it.
" ?

The $regml(name,N) is a result array(s) so you would have exactly that.

while that is true, most other uses wishing to do such a thing would still rely on knowing regex. (asuming of course many people would need such a function). that said its a good idea and worth a go if you know regex or willing to learn.