Hello there /wave

I'm new to this board, which seems filled with knowledgable fine gentlemen.

I'm using mIRC 6.19, trying to make a *LARGE* textfile containing quotes and other good lines.
Each quote is on a line by itself, and I've seen that you can then use /filter to "search" by matchtext and output the line it finds to a window/alias/file

however, when I try to do this, I fail

/filter -fw H:\mIRC\quotes.txt #humor-n-fun *chaplin*
gives me: * /filter: invalid window

if I do
/filter -ff H:\mIRC\quotes.txt H:\mIRC\testfilter.txt *chaplin*
I get a new textfile with all the chaplin lines in it

#humor-n-fun is a normal channel

what am I doing wrong ?

it's supposed to end up being a "search engine" sorts of, using on *:TEXT:blah blah blah

remote script so ppl can type for instance:

!funsearch *chaplin*

and have all the lines returned in a priv msg window..

can anyone help ? I feel really silly asking for help, since it looks "simple" in the help files, it just doesn't work

you can use the filter output in the textfile to play it to the requesting nick
.play $nick filename

this will save you from flooding if there are a large number of matched lines

mIRC goes from 6.17 to 6.2

This isn't actually an error. /filter can't filter to channel windows. Just outputs to @win/file/dialog_id

If you absolutely must /filter to a channel window, use an alias as the output.

alias chanecho { echo #SOMECHANNEL $1 }

/filter -wk #channel1 chanecho *stuff*

Alternatively, you can /filter to a file, and then /loadbuf the file into the channel. :P

As hixxy pointed out, mIRC 6.19 was never released, so you have either 6.20, 6.17, 6.16, or something below those.

Edit: Also, if you plan on messaging the text, you might as well /filter it to a file, and then /play it, as MikeChat has mentioned.

wow, thank you

I'm dying to try out the different suggestions, will do that later today, when I have more time..

and you're right, it's not 6.19, it's 6.16

my bad

is it possible to combine this with a "remote" ?

and then respond to the person ?

on 1:TEXT:!jokeme*:#fun-n-games,?:/filter -cff h:\mIRC\quotes.txt h:\mIRC\temp\$nick.txt *$1*
/play $nick h:\mIRC\temp\$nick.txt 500

?

would this in effect be able to let ppl in #fun-n-games write
!jokeme *sheep*

and recieve filtered content from the txt file, in a /msg to them ?

it seems right to me, but how do I hook the remote and the /play command together ?

like this ?

on 1:TEXT:!jokeme*:#fun-n-games,?:{
/filter -cff h:\mIRC\quotes.txt h:\mIRC\temp\$nick.txt *$1*
/play $nick h:\mIRC\temp\$nick.txt 500 }

?

/sorry for being such a newb

In your example, all you'd really need to do to make it work is: \ $+ $nick $+ .txt

Edit: Just so you know, you shouldn't have stuff touching identifiers, unless it's inside of another identifier (ie: $calc($1 + $2) ) So if you're doing *$1* you'd really want: * $+ $1 $+ *

Or: $+(*,$1,*)

Either of those methods will evaluate $1, and then attach the *'s to it.

I'm not sure how your file is layed out, but the way you are performing the /filter, you would be searching for !jokeme since that is what $1 would be. If you want to filter based on the users text, you'd want to use $2-.

Unless of course the lines in the file you have start with !jokeme or something.

hmm ..

I tried a few different approaches, got some progress and now it works...

I split it up into the on 1:TEXT remote and an alias in remote also.

here follows:

on 1:TEXT:!jokeme*:#fun-n-games,?:/jokealias $nick $2
alias jokealias {
/filter -cff h:\mIRC\quotes.txt h:\mIRC\temp\ $+ $1 $+ .txt * $+ $2 $+ *
/play $1 h:\mIRC\temp\ $+ $1 $+ .txt 500
}

only thing left, is to figure out if it can send an "error msg" if no jokes are found using /filter

awesome guys, you rawk tbh

* code untested *

(1) You dont need to filter to a user specificly named file becuase when you play it it can be imediatly erased, as the play command buffers the file contents.
(2) $filtered returns the number of lines matched so i use it to check for zero, and if so write an error into the file

aah, didn't know about $filtered

nice one

will check it later, perhaps adapt it a bit, but it looks right to me

about the .remove tempfile thingy, is not really nescessary
/filter -cff
the -c will clear the previous file before stuffing text in there

I'll post the final result, when I have checked it

ty /<3

the code you posted works flawlessly:D

I did remove the .remove sentence, as it has no meaning when filter uses -c

awesome

ty again

I know what -c does, but I removed the file so its not sitting there afterwards, its called housekeeping, clean up what mess ya make. It was also to demonstrate that the file does not need to exist for the lngth of the play commands actions, thus a signle filename can be used, they dont need to be nick specific filenames.

aye, true dat

however, keeping the last file gives me the possibility to add something like "last result" option, possibly make a history function, so users can list their last 10 searches...

however, I'm not gonna go there for quite a while

I'm very happy with the script as it is....

thanx again for the awesome help