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Is there an identifier that has the full text without being tokenised thus having excessive spaces removed?

If there isn't I think that there should be one implemented. An example is where the services send a space-aligned listing of something and I have an on text script to display it on my screen, but because the text has been tokenised, $1- has had spaces removed, which causes the space alignment to be removed.

I hope I've made some sense.

Nope.

Search the forums for 'multiple spaces'... this is a frequently occuring problem and basically the reply is: No.

What do you mean the reply is no? No to what?

This, 'problem' can easily be remedied by the addition of an identifer that contains the text before it's put into tokens.

This is a frequently occuring problem of stripping excess whitespaces from text, and has come up heaps of times over heaps of versions of mIRC. People have suggested having an event with the original text, or $fulltext, etc... but the suggestions are never taken up -- most likely because it would cause fundamental changes to the mIRC scripting engine.

/me thinks Khaled should use a lex & yacc (or flex & bison) based language. It would make it faster, and it would fix just about every problem mIRC has with the script engine. Would it be easy? No, but it could be done, and it would only make things better.

If it requires fundamental changes to the scripting engine, maybe Khaled should be commenting on this issue directly. It's a very common issue and many people would be pleased if part of this problem could be rectified.

I'm only calling for $fulltext or what ever to be added to on text events, etc. I have read other posts regarding this issue and they call for complete changes that I don't think are necessary, or that could be implemented over time.

> maybe Khaled should be commenting on this issue directly.

I think Tjerk mentioned that he was away ATM, and I suspect he commented on this in the previous forums, though couldn't hurt to comment here again.

> I'm only calling for $fulltext or what ever to be added to on
> text events, etc

Yes, but what happens once you try pass it to an alias? It'll lose its formatting. Same with custom identifiers, and most likely internal identifiers like $mid() $left() $right().

I agree that it may be too much to ask to change how mIRC parses things, but I would ask if it was possible to create something to the effect of a binvar that contains an event's text unparsed... anything else, if you really needed to have it spaced, you can do yourself with binary variables since they're global.

Hmmm yeah a binvar might work, interesting...

"Same with custom identifiers, and most likely internal identifiers like $mid() $left() $right()."

Nope. Identifiers (whether custom or internal) can handle consecutive spaces, only /commands have that limitation. A $fulltext identifier would still be of great use (you could insert $chr(2) pairs, for example, between two spaces and then use /echo etc)

By the way, it's a shame the old boards are gone, there was a LOT of stuff in there for people to search