Forums Scripts & Popups Help with this script please, I can't


on *:text:*hi*:#poseidon:{
if (!$window(@words)) window -enk1z @words
aline -hp @words $nick say $+( $1-, )
}

on *:text:*high 5*:#poseidon:{
if (!$window(@words)) window -enk1z @words
aline -hp @words $nick say: $+( $1-, )
}


This one I found works well, it tracks the words I need to check in the channel. But how can I exclude some sentences and some nicks of my choice, from this tracking? it's driving me crazy

For example, if I track the word "hi", and all the sentences that contain "hi", how can I exclude (by exclude I mean that it is not shown in the appropriate @words window) a sentence of my choice that contains that word? for example the sentence "hey, hi Mairel!" ?

Or exclude some nicks, so that if those nicks say anything with "hi" it doesn't show up in the @words window?

I'm lost and useless for codes, I would like to know if someone would be able to do it

you could try this:

It's better to use $istok to compare nickname as well as they can contain character which would be meaningful in regex, and because there's absolutely no benefit in using regex here for nickname.
The regex used against $1- is missing an \s before 'high' but well, \s matches tab character as well as some others, which are valid in text for irc, so if you wanted to make it a word, you could use \b (matches a position, not a character), which would work better but still would match on something else than an asvii 32 space. In my experience, using just an ascii 32 space is most of the time the best option, it can be literal or \x20 can be used.

@op: to prevent a specific line you can add a condition with another && operator with ($1- != hey, hi mairel), but because this is pretty short sighted (aka you might end up with a thousand of such condition), this is were regex would actually be powerful,

Simo, Wims, thank you so much for your help and advice, I really appreciate it!

thanks for the corrections and suggestions Wims, i came up with this perhaps its usefull :