Forums Scripts & Popups Pulling info from a text file

I have a text file that has a list of items. The first word of each line is the item and the rest of the line is the description.

I am trying to write a script that when a user types !item <item> it will go to this file, find the line with that item and respond with the description. How can I do this. I am fairly new at writing scrips and know that this is possible.

At this time, the file has approx 600 items in it. and will grow to near 1000.

Thanks for your help

Replace items.txt with the name of your text file.

That worked great...now to add one more thing...what if the ITEM is not found. How do I display a message saying that it was not found.

Again. Thansk for the help.

Bless you...thanks for the quick help...task completed and script works great!!!

detail, since running $read() twice would be rather slow, I'd use $ifmatch where possible.

Greetings Collective and Members,

How would I add a timer to this code to enable the reading of a sizeable text file back to a remote user via a whisper to them without flooding out the script in doing so?

on *:TEXT:!item*:#:{ if ( $read(items.txt,s,$$2-) != $null ) { msg # $nick $ifmatch }
else {
msg # $nick Item " $+ $$2- $+ " not found.
}
}


Thanks for your time and consideration,

Regards,
MDA

no idea however on the timer..sorry