I have a simple script:

on *:text:*math*:#:{
IF (*number >= .5*) {
/msg $me High number math
}
ELSEIF (*no math * iswm $1-) {
/msg $me No math
}
ELSE {
/msg $me Low math
}
}

My question is what do I put to cause any mention of any number from .5 upwards to trigger the IF section? I've highlighted the area I mean in red. Thanks for your help!

$1 returns the first word mentioned in the on text event
$2 returns the second...

Assuming that the actual value you're looking for is the third word, you'd use

This becomes a bit more complicated if you allow the number anywhere in the input and if you allow other characters like operators to touch them. Is that what you want?

Here's a terrible, terrible solution for that problem:

i would think but idk

Yes, that's the problem - the text which comes before it will vary in length unpredictably. For example:

!The Name Is Here - There is a title which goes here and can be very long or very short ($0.06)

or

!category !The Name Is Here There is a title which goes here and can be very long or very short $0.10

Those are the two formats the text it is to be triggered by take.

Well then as I see it regular expressions are your only option.

You can use this single regex which is tailored to your needs:


Or you can identify and loop over all numbers (I like this regex even less):

I tried that and it just alerted on this:

!Name !Title $0.04

Not according to this:

I just copied and pasted that into my script:

on *:text:*math*:#channel:{
IF (badtext) {
halt
}
ELSEIF ($regex($1-,/(^|[^\.\d])0*[1-9]|\.[5-9]/S)) {
window @UrgentAlert 0 0 1275 875
aline -pi @UrgentAlert $remove(( $time ), $chr(32)) 12 $nick  7 $chan  11 $1- $+
splay urgent.wav
}
ELSE {
window @RegularAlert 0 0 1275 875
aline -pi @RegularAlert $remove(( $time ), $chr(32)) 12 $nick  7 $chan  11 $1- $+
splay beep.wav
}
}

And then tested it with 28.50 and 0.02 and both alerted in the urgent window with the urgent wav...

Well I just tested it with that and they both went to the correct windows. I did have to change "badtext" to 0 so that it wouldn't halt.

Are you sure you don't have a similar script loaded and interfering? Insert debug print statements to make sure you're at the lines you think you are. If you can, provide a single test alias like I did before to reliably demonstrate the problem.

I've found the problem - within the entire text there is a URL which has numbers in it. While they don't have a period, they're setting it off.

!Name Title ($0.02) does nothing
!Name Title ($0.02) https://www.website.com/page.html?Id=3X19M43Z4VULD73G1I2N3GGRYF10D8 sets it off.

Is there a way to force the script to only go off on a number which has a decimal in it?

Well I wish you would have mentioned that to begin with, it's much easier.

To allow text as ".5"


To force the full dollar amount "$0.5":

The problem is that it also has to allow $1.0, etc. I figured out a dirty way to do it, which sucks, but works:

IF ((*0.0* iswm $1-) || (*0.1* iswm $1-) || (*0.2* iswm $1-) || (*0.3* iswm $1-) || (*0.4* iswm $1-)) {
don't do urgent stuff
}

ELSE {
do urgent stuff
}
}

And that's working for now. Thanks for your help!

Right, my bad. This will trigger on $0.50, $1.0, $1.5...