Forums Scripts & Popups Falling at the first hurdle

I've not used mIRC for a while, however I'm wanting to write a script as an example of using a DDE server for someone.

I've got this so far:-



The erroneous '/echo %ipl' is so I can see what's happening, with any luck.

Bottom line, %ipl is never 5, but the code always responds with 'Yup'. I've obviously missed something fundamental about mIRC scripting, it's not something I really want to add to my resume, so any help would be much appreciated.

Another quick Q... is there a way of declaring and initialising a string without mIRC trying to parse it? i.e. %mystring = "$dde(%ddeservername,info,"%ipl%")"

(1) You need to go into your code and remove the TAB character on this line "if (%ipl == 5) {" its confused mirc, its seeing it like this <TAB><SPACE>if (%ipl == 5) { and it looks through your alias's and find non by the name $chr(9) so goes, well it must be a server command so ill send it to the server, now onto the next line of code , oh look echo Yup, better do that now!
I alos get in my status window a line looking like
[] Unknown command [] is a small black square

You may have other tabs in there i didnt check.


(2) //set %mystring = $!dde(%ddeservername,info,"%ipl%")
the ! stops the evaluation of the $dde command, everything following it doesnt get evaluated because its joined (no spaces) to the $!dde

Thanks for the response, I 'cleansed' my source of nasty tabs etc, and bobs yer uncle, everything fired up nicely, ty. I've never met such a fussy parser.

As for the strings, I've still not got my head round a number of aspects, such as dealing with special chars, the strange behaviour of "quoted" and non-quoted strings... um the quotes are printed! But nevermind, I've managed to cobble together an example (my original objective), which experts like yourself will be able to improve on.

I've no intention of attempting to learn anymore mIRC scripting from what I've seen so far. I admire your patience!