help with invalid nick charecters please??

i want a script or if theres an identifier or regex or something
that will check if the nick typed like
input nick the input was "bla" it would return $true
or something
if it was "./@"it would return $false so it could see the charecters
that arnt aloud in nicknames

hope that was clear

please help me
thanks alot

The precise characters that are allowed in nicknames varies between networks.

is there any way i can make an alias then that will canel out charecters:
anything that isnt plain text numbers or []()_-~|

thanks

You mean remove them? This should do the trick:

Code:

strip_invalid_chars {
  var %r
  !.echo -q $regsub(strip_invalid_chars, $$1, /[^][a-z0-9()_~|-]/g, , %r)
  return %r
}

ie.
$strip_invalid_chars(hello~ @there\) returns: hello~there