Forums mIRC Help Can the notify list accept wildchars/regexps ?

I am not understanding (and it appears to be false) if the notify list in the address book could support wildchars and/or regexps.

I now have a long stupid list of friends with various suffixes such as:

Bob|AFK
Bob
BobGone
BobATWork

etc.

Thank you

I do not think wildcards are possible in that case, because mIRC's notify feature uses the WATCH function of the irc servers.
As far as I can remember, WATCH does not support wildcards, only the full name...
Otherwise, it would be possible to find out every connected person on an irc server.

I don't know about regular expressions, although I'm doubting that they will work, but I do know that wildcards will not work.

If you have a long list, such as you posted, you might be smarter to use a notify script rather than the notify list.

If you have a long list, such as you posted, you might be smarter to use a notify script rather than the notify list.
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Do you mind sharing that script in this or some other thread?:)

Thanks.

For those who *actually* read the help file in this day and age:



In the above case, wildcard matches would work. Again, it depends on the server as the help file says, and I've never encountered one of those myself.