Forums Scripts & Popups Two questions

Two questions, unrelated to each other...

First off, I have a text file that I select a random line from using the $read() command, after which I was hoping to use remini to delete the line that it randomly selected. However, it looks like remini wants to know exactly what it's removing and can't go based on a variable input. Any ideas how to get this to work? (Before anyone suggests it, I did consider making it a variable and using $gettok and $remtok, for about a half second. There's over a thousand lines in the text file, and each line is usually numerous words, no way I'm taking the time to put it all into a single variable)

The other, entirely unrelated question is, is it possible to set up an emoticon as a kick trigger? As an example, I have this set up:

I know I can't include a ":" inside there for it to look for, and including a $chr() in there doesn't work, either. Any way possible for it to work?

For the second question, you need to use the $() in the text match section. For example: This will match the emoticon: If you know regex, you can do this with octal numeric characters or the escape character easily to match several emoticons more efficiently.

For your first question you need to look at:
/help /$readn
/help /write

If the file you're trying to remove lines from is an INI file, then removing a random line risks making the INI file invalid. Just something to keep in mind that you'll need to work around. If it's a text file, use

/write -dl $readn file.txt

Thanks much, Tomao and Riamus2.

Riamus2, I believe you meant:

/write -dl $+ $readn file.txt

OR

/write $+(-dl,$readn) file.txt

There should be no space between the switches and the line number to delete.

there shouldn't, but it works fine with the space there (as with -s -w and -r).

I tried what Riamus2 had, it worked fine for me. Looks like it works either way.

Like jaytea said, yes, you can use it without a space.