Forums Scripts & Popups If $exists timer

Since $exists looks for a folder/file, I'm looking for a way to check if a timer currently exists. What I am trying to do is, add a list of users to a text file. If they've been added to the list within the past xx hours I would like to NOT add them to the list.

Is timers the right way to go or should I track them somehow else? Does writing this list of users to another file, then checking if it exists better?

Thanks. My brain wants to do:

I believe this will do it! (for general knowledge)
Now, for what you want to do,
You can write the nick to the file set a timer to delete it after X seconds.
And when the adding command is used you will check if the nick is in the txt file or if the timer exists. But i suggest checking the txt filenn because in case your mirc stops for some reason.. (like a failed while loop) the timers will stop.
P.S if the length of the list is not too big you can more easily add the nicks to a variable with $addtok and with a timer $remtok it!

Thanks, I ended up writing nicks to a separate file, and checking if nick is in the file. I'm using a timer to remove the nick after a period of time.

It's not perfect, but does what I need it to do for the time being.