Forums Scripts & Popups Reading from text file help

I have a text file capture data from users. The text reads as follow (have deleted the IP',s )

TallM=Q TallM!webchat@zairc-le0.iie.159.169.IP.....
Buck=Q Buck!webchat@zairc-7q1.slu.6.196IP.....
treble-bb=N treble!Mutter@zairc-6d9.e5a.13.41IP.....
CoCo=N coco!coco@zairc-sgp.b9t.226.160IP.....
kokkie=Q kokkie!NewDawn@zairc-sgp.b9t.226.160IP.....
Nikita=Q Nikita!androirc@zairc-cmh.j2r.13.41IP.....
Water365=Q Water365!irccloud.com@zairc-0msm07IP.....

I would like to extract the info for a specific user name like say trebble-bb in other word the text before the = and display the full line

something like if ($2* iswm $nick) .......

Is that at all possible?

I use this to extract other info for the nick but then that text file contains only the user name.like trebble-bb

Based on your example, if you want to match a nick contained in $2 then your wildcard match would be like $read(Docs\email.txt, ntw, $+($2,=,*))

Reminder that with $read you should always use the nt switches unless you specifically intend to evaluate $identifier and %var strings which might be contained in the text file, or intend that a numeric line#1 be handled as if it's the true number of remaining lines in the text file.

Thank you maroon works perfectly