Forums Scripts & Popups Regex problems...

Okay. This is a bit of code that I'm trying to get to work to strip out all characters not a-zA-Z. It should be working, as it has worked with the true perl regex lib, but it's not. Does mIRC somehow modify this libary?

Anyway, how can I get this to work?

%var = $regsub(cleantext, the11, [^a-zA-Z], , %b)

%b SHOULD contain "the", but it contains "the1". o_O

what do you get if you type:

//var %b | .echo -q $regsub(cleantext,the11,/[^a-zA-Z]/g,,%b)| echo -a %b

Yeah, that gives the desired result.
Blue and I were working on the same filter, figured I could respond on his behalf.
Still baffled as to why the original line only strips one character per token, but that doesn't matter much as long as there's a workaround. Thanks!

It's because $regsub() doesn't make patterns global by default, so unless you specify the g modifier the pattern will stop after it's first match.

Ahhah. Never knew that. Well, thanks everyone.