Forums Scripts & Popups Looking for quotebot help

Hi,

I just got a quotebot, and all is well with it, however it has no search function. I'd like to add a hunk of script that would make it search each quote (line) in the quote.txt file and return a list of quote numbers that contain that string.
Something like !find mIRC
and the bot would reply..
The following quotes contain "mIRC" : [5] [12] [34] [987] (or whatever numbers have mIRC somewhere in their text.)

The problem is I have no clue where to begin and cant for the life of me find one. (after over 5 hours looking online, and an hour looking at every post here that contained "quote" thats been posted since 2003)

Please help with that !find function if you could, or just post/link to any working bot script that has the usual functions that includes !find would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
jon

You can use /filter with an alias to do this quite quickly:

on *:text:!find *:#:{
;; Filter all matching lines to the alias
filter -fkn quote.txt fquote $+(*,$2-,*)
;; Output results, $filtered contains number of matching lines
if (!$filtered) msg # No quotes found matching $+(*,$2-,*)
else msg # $filtered quote $+ $iif($filtered != 1,s) matching $+(*,$2-,*) found on line $+ $iif($filtered != 1,s:,:) %temp.fquote
unset %temp.fquote
}

;; Add the line number of a found quote to a temporary global variable
alias -l fquote { %temp.fquote = %temp.fquote $+([,$gettok($1,1,32),]) }

Edit: Added if statement