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Say the person posts any kinda of symbol repeatidly, like ......... or ,,,,, or one of

I want a script that looks at the line, and after 10 symbols, it times them out. But I don't want to do a million

Code:

if (. isin $1-)

Statements, I am looking for something more like

Code:

if (symbol)

any Ideas?

use $regex()

Code:

if $regex($1-,/(symbol){10,}/Sig) { do stuff }

I can't seem to get this command to pick up symbols

Testing the ? character:

Code:

var %regex = /(\?){10,}/Sig
if ($regex($1-,%regex)) { do stuff }

mIRC was interpreting the comma in the regex as a delimter for the $regex identifier, so store it in a variable first.

Many characters have special meanings in regex, so you should escape it with a \ if you're unsure. Some characters that should be escaped: . $ ^ ? [ ] ( ) + *

And unless you come up with rules that lend themselves better to a simpler regex, you're going to either have just as many $regex checks as you would have isin checks or a very long $regex.

"." matches any character, so you can use this to test if any character is repeated 10 times: /(.){10,}/Sig

Other than this I can't think of anything better to test if multiple characters are repeated 10 times individually:

/(\?){10,}|(\+){10,}|(\*){10,}|(\^){10,}/Sig

Originally Posted By: Loki12583

Testing the ? character:

Code:

var %regex = /(\?){10,}/Sig
if ($regex($1-,%regex)) { do stuff }

mIRC was interpreting the comma in the regex as a delimter for the $regex identifier, so store it in a variable first.

Aye, my bad. Thanks Loki for correcting.