Forums Bug Reports $fline() bug found (i think)

hi i was scripting again, trying to make an identifier that recognizes whether a channel is xdcc or not. That doesn't matter right now, heres the problem.

i am trying to use $fline() to reutrn the number of VOICED nicknames that are *-* catering for that wildcard. so it'll find names like [XDCC]-bot1 etc. but i want it to return nicks that are +*-* but it doesn't seem to return anything...

heres what i'm using $fline(#,+*-*,0,1), should that return the total number of nicks in the listbox that satisfy the wildcard?? it doesn't seem to work if you add a wildcard for their channel mode.

hope it works

Since $line(#,1,1) returns the nick without mode prefix I don't wonder why that doesn't work.

But why would they strip the mode prefixes?

no idea, i didn't play around with $line() to find it doesn't actually return the mode prefix anyway but thanks for reinforcing it.

it'd be better if the whole lot got returned instead of me having to script extra stuff. But the reason why it isn't is to make it easier for the scripter that wants to manipulate just the nickname instead of having to remove the mode prefix themselves. but i think they should edit the function so that you can specify whether to return the mode prefix too or not such as a $prop that won't get in the way. $line().mp or something IF the user specifies listbox etc...

You can still get the mode prefixes with /filter. An example: //filter -wfl #chan nul +*-* | echo -a $filtered

cheers for the code, i was just suggesting an alternate way to which you'd expect the mode prefixes to be shown. nice code !!!!

Yes, I liked it too. I knew that NUL works with /debug, but it was a pleasant surprise to find out that it works as a /filter <outfile> too.