Forums Scripts & Popups How to ignore text that starts with X whitespace?

Hi. How would you ignore channel text from users that start with say 10 spaces? For example:


I'd want to ignore the line from userB.

I tried:

on ^*:text:*:#test:{ if ($regex($1-,^(\s){10,})) { haltdef } }

But it didn't seem to work.
Thanks for the help guys!

This shows that using $1- strips out leading/trailing/extra spaces, so your regex never had a chance.

So if $1- filters out leading whitespace, how do you check for it? Is it even possible using on:text?

Thanks

I just showed you that $rawmsg retains it. The display message begins after the 2nd colon, but as soon as you transfer it to another %variable or send the output through something like $1- or $gettok, the result no longer has the consecutive/leading/trailing spaces in it.

I tried:

if ($regex($rawmsg,$chr(32){15,})) { haltdef }

but that just gave me:


in the server window. So then I tried:

if ($chr(32){15,} isin $rawmsg) { haltdef }

but didn't do anything at all, which still wouldn't have checked for leading spaces even if it did.

You mentioned the display message begins after the 2nd colon but that doesn't appear to be consistent since ipv6 adds an extra 4. If you can't keep the spaces storing $rawmsg in a variable, then I couldn't even cut $rawmsg at say "$chan :" and store it in a variable.

Unfortunately my non-scripting self feels even farther away from a solution.

Try $regex($rawmsg,\s{15})

That finds long stretch anywhere within the message, not just the front.
Inside the ON TEXT event, you can see the ASCII values contents of $rawmsg with:

bset -ta &bvar 1 $rawmsg
echo -s $bvar(&bvar,1-)

I didn't expect to see colons in a hostname, so i guess the next part is to look for the first occurence of $chan followed by space then by colon.

Doing:

if ($regex($rawmsg,\s{15,})) { haltdef }

gave me:



in the server window. It seems like that should've worked.

It doesn't like that extra comma there, so you'll have to do something like:

var %temp \s{15,}
if ($regex($rawmsg,%temp)) { haltdef }

That did the trick! Thank you for all your help maroon!