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Ok....I wanna make a script like so:
[code] on 1:TEXT:!topic:#avatarrp:/msg Here's a nice topic $read(topic.mrc)
[code]
well...there is one REALLY long topic....a few lines, and it dosn't come out....how do I make it come out....or make it on many lines (automatically)

Quote:

on 1:TEXT:!topic:#avatarrp:/msg Here's a nice topic $read(topic.mrc)

msg $chan/$nick
Just add to your file a fewer lines coz you can't post a new topic that exceeds(don't know how many chars) or too long..

and no need of the / you can just type
msg $chan Here's a nice topic $read(topic.mrc)
coz it's on your remotes
and much neater if you'll use .txt file instead of .mrc

I KNOW...but I want to divide it up into lines...automatically.

use $&
From the help file:

Quote:

The $& identifier

This identifier allows you to break up a single line into multiple lines which are combined when the script is performed, so you can edit long commands more easily:

longline {
echo This is an example of a long $&
line that has been split into multiple lines $&
to make it easier to edit

}

again.....not exactly what I am getting at.. I want it to SPLIT UP the text into many little texts. So it would do instead of:
/msg $chan SUPER LONG LINE

/msg $chan SUPER
/msg $chan LONG
/msg $chan LINE

$read(file.txt,p)

Change all the long lines to for example:
This is a very long line that has lots of unnecisairy stuff and vry bad spelling mistakes and stuff and tis really long and stuf and its longer than that and stuff and its rlly rlly o rly long bla bla bla bla bla

change it to:
This is a very long line that has lots of unnecisairy stuff and vry bad spelling mistakes | msg # and stuff and tis really long and stuf and its longer than | msg # that and stuff and its rlly rlly o rly long bla bla bla bla bla

ok...but is there a way of doing this AUTOMATICALLY

*sigh* well....I gotta go now...please e-mail me at emperoradz@gmail.com if you find something. Thanks for everyone's help though

There is no /AutomaticallyTurnLongTextFileLinesIntoManyShortOnes command in mIRC. You will have to find or create an alias that does it for you.

-genius_at_work

If you can give me say, 5-10 lines of the file you're reading from (Preferably some short, and some long), then I can try to make a snippet that splits it up.

I asked my friend and he wrote me a script:

Code:

/t {
  ; Usage: use /split $read(file.txt) to split the file line up to multiple lines, if necessary
  ; Set length to the maximum number of characters you want sent to the channel
  var %length = 350
  var %strleft = $1-
  var %lenleft = $len($1-)
  while ( %lenleft > 0 ) {
    ; Be sure to change this next line.  Use $left(%strleft, %length) in place of your normal variable.
    /msg $chan $left(%strleft, %length)
    %lenleft = %lenleft - %length
    %strleft = $right($1-, %lenleft)
  }
}

That ^^ is basically what I was trying to do. It work GREAT