Forums mIRC Help is this a bug or something else?

Well... I installed mIRC version 6.21 about a month ago, and havent had any problems until i was scripting a program today. The problem I ran into is having mIRC not finding a the filename "global.ini" existing in a directory on my computer. For example, i ran this code earlier today:

echo 4 -a $exists($+(",$mircdir,bot/global.ini"))

output:

$false

eventhough the file exists in that perticular directory and is named global.ini mirc found it none existing. mIRC wont even write to it because it states it none existing. However, if i was to rename "global.ini" to "gobal.ini" and impliment the code as:

echo 4 -a $exists($+(",$mircdir,bot/gobal.ini"))

output:

$true

I do not know if this is a bug or if it is something that mIRC no longer supports.

Certain filenames cannot be used by mIRC. There are numerous posts about the reason(s), but suffice it to say, that those filenames cannot be used.

-genius_at_work

Beyond what genius_at_work said about your question, I'll add that you can shorten that check to:

echo 4 -a $exists($mircdir/bot/gobal.ini)

As long as your filename/path is within an identifier (something starting with a $ sign and surrounded by parentheses), you don't need to worry about spaces, so quotes aren't necessary. Stuff like $read or $readini are identifiers and wouldn't need to have the quotes, for example.

However, if you use it with something that doesn't have an identifier (such as /write or /writeini), that's when you need to include the quotes. It's also good practice to have a \ or / between $mircdir or $scriptdir and the filename or folder name that follows. It will work without that right now, but that may change in a later version.