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I´m not sure but when i type
//echo $findfile($mircdir,*.mts,0)

i get - * /echo: insufficient parameters

but with
//echo -a $findfile($mircdir,*.mts,0)

it works

One of the optional parameters of echo is a color number. If you prefer not to use -a, you can just use any printable character...I usually use *. /echo requires SOME text work with, so this satisfies that requirement as well.

/echo * $findfile($mircdir, *.mts, 0)
or
/echo * $findfile($mircdir, *.mts, 0) files found

It's not a bug. If the first parameter /echo receives is a number then it's used as the colour for the following text. Since there's no text following the number in your second example then there's nothing to be echo'ed - so you get an insufficient parameters error. With the -a switch as the first parameter mIRC knows that any numbers after that are part of the text and should no be interpreted as a colour code.

I don't know, maybe it's just me, but shouldn't mIRC be smart enough to say "hmm they specified a color code, but no text... perhaps they really want to print a number." Not saying it's a bug, it just seems like it could easily be implemented and then these types of problems wouldn't exist.

I agree, i even scripted my own echo alias that does it

I disagree....

While I debug with the /echo command, i'm happy to see that my variables are $null.

/echo -s $null
/echo -a $null
/echo * $null
and because i always write -s or -a or *,
i dont feel like inventing the weel again.

.... the point is that echo 4 colorize the text in red.... when there is some text.

and

echo hahahaha
leads us to a [syntax error].

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Joel Pichette
Developper for a script that has :tongue:
the look and confort of napster / winmx / kazaa