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I'd like to have a script that checks to see if someone that sends me a private message is on a list of prepared nicks I have, this is what I have so far.

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on 1:NOTICE:*:?:/awaycheck

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awaycheck {
//echo $read(whtlist.txt, s, $nick) | if ( $readn > 0 ) { /echo user is on list }
}

that's assuming that "whtlist.txt" is in the root Mirc directory.

for some reason I cannot get an echo message

The only possible way I can think of (this doesn't mean there isn't any other way) is to have this in your whtlist.txt.

It doesn't matter what the symbol after the "Nick1-4" is, as long as there is something after it. The reasoning is because when you use $read(file.txt, s, name-to-search) it will reply with the remaining text after, as said in the help file.



This is the only way I see it being possible, of course once someone else posts some other way of doing it, i'll feel stupid, lol.


I hope this has solved your problem.

Just change s to w. You can do an exact match wildcard search using w and no *'s. It's better than s for what he wants anyhow because he might have Nicky in there and someone called Nick would match because of how s works.

$read(whtlist.txt, w, $nick)

Like I said, someone will come along with something better, lol, I guess you could just use this:

As Kurdish_Assass1n intimated, you have several options. Which one is most efficient depends largely on the number of nicks you are keeping track of.

If you have your heart set on using $read, go with the previous replies. I myself never use $read, for no particular reason, so no doubt this has influenced my suggestions. None of the following suggestions involve mIRC actually reading whtlist.txt.

I'm assuming here that you merely want to know if a person messaging you is using a nick that is in your whtlist.txt

If you white list is very short, and you expect it to remain so, you might simply put the nicks in a variable and use token commands. This approach can be very limiting, tho.

For a not-huge white list, you might consider just adding those nicks to the User file with a level higher than 1 [e.g. 5], and use:


OR


Be aware that this will trigger every time a level 5 (white list) user says anything in a message window. If you only want this echo when a private conversation begins, use on *:OPEN:?:*: { etc }

If your white list is quite large, you should look into hash tables.

Excellent, they worked fine. Is there anyway I can get it to work with queries also?

Duplicate the code you already used, but change NOTICE to TEXT.