Forums Scripts & Popups Compact If Statement

I try to do the following:

if $len(%pos = $pos(%msg, mother)) != 0 {
/echo someone says mother at %pos
} else if $len(%pos = $pos(%msg, father)) != 0 {
/echo someone says father at %pos
}

But the script does not seem to work. I think because I am assigning a value to %pos and at the same time sending the value over to the function $len(). How do I rectify this?

Great feature in PHP doesnt work in mIRC youll need to split it over multiple lines something like:

That means if I have multiple comparisons for example the following

var %pos = $pos(%msg, mother);
if (%pos) {
/echo someone says mother at %pos
} else {
%pos = $pos(%msg, father)
if (%pos) {
/echo someone says father at %pos
} else {
%pos = $pos(%msg, brother)
if (%pos) {
/echo someone says brother at %pos
} else {
%pos = $pos(%msg, sister)
if (%pos) {
/echo someone says sister at %pos
}
}
}
}

with deeper and deeper indentation. This is horrendous
Can you suggest a better way of writing it?

Note: I added a third parameter of 1 to each use of $pos() since it seems from the context that you want it to return the first position of the word in %msg, not the number of times it appears.

An even shorter way for those comfortable with regex is

Hm... I've used $pos without the 1 and I get the position of the first word. I don't get the number of times it appears. (v6.2)

So it does. I didn't have mIRC available when I originally replied, I just assumed that it would default to 0 if no third parameter was given. Looking at the mIRC docs now it's not even documented that the third parameter is optional!

Sorry i didnt go for shortest code there just pointing out you cant assign variable in an if evaluation like you can with php

Cheers everyone!