on an announce in a channel ($3) this part of hte announce always ends in -RANDOMTHING i want to read from names.txt and see if -RANDOMTHING is already in there, if so { halt } if not it should add it to names.txt,

$3 could be any size and have -WORD-WORD_word-WORD
but i only want to catch the end

if anyone has an efficient way to accomplish this it would be greatly appreciated

Confused... but to get the last very word since the character - is in use use gettok...

$gettok($3,$numtok($3,45),45)

$numtok calculates how many tokens are found the same, then I take that total and get the last word after the token

CHARACTER 45 equals minus or -.

Confused... but to get the last very word since the character - is in use use gettok...

$gettok($3,$numtok($3,45),45)

$numtok calculates how many tokens are found the same, then I take that total and get the last word after the token

CHARACTER 45 equals minus or -.

You can also use $gettok($3,-1,45) to get the last word (or token as it can also be called) using the chracter 45 or - token separator.