%# Question

[iLia]

Daniel forgot his password (and e-mail I suspect) for TG so he asked me to post this . I can't always read his handwriting though so if something looks odd just say so and I'll clarify it with him.

 

 

 

I'll just quote what he wrote on the note for me

 

I want to post from one room to another

 

Normally that would be like this, when in channel a

 

/msg #b-Room Blah

 

 

The problem is that roomnames start with %#

 

Is there a way around this?

 

 

P.S. Plz edit the title , I really didn't know what to put.

[Warrior124]

Yes. Just use //msg %#b-Room Blah

[Josh`]

pretty much what Warrior said lol

[hixxy]

From command line:

 

/msg %#channel

 

(note I'm only using ONE slash here).

 

From remote:

 

msg % $+ #channel

[Ozzy10]

this will do it

 

/msg $chr(37) $+ $chr(35) $+ b-Room Blah

 

$chr(37) = %

$chr(35) = #

$+ = put item before and item after together as one

[hixxy]

this will do it

 

/msg $chr(37) $+ $chr(35) $+ b-Room Blah

 

$chr(37) = %

$chr(35) = #

$+ = put item before and item after together as one

 

Why use $chr() when you can just use the actual characters like I did?

[iLia]

Thx.

 

He wrote them all down and will try them , then comment himself.

 

And thx for editing my rather vague title.

Edited June 8, 2007 by iLia

[Guest Travis]

Why use $chr() when you can just use the actual characters like I did?

 

Because mIRC uses % for variables and so has issues sometimes using % in room names. (One of the reasons MSN OCX sucks)

 

For instance. If you called an alias named testing and wanted to include the $nick and $chan:

 

if ($nick != $me) testing $chan $nick

 

alias testing {

if ($2 ison $1) mode $1 +o $2

}

 

If the channel had %# to start with mIRC wouldn't process it and so $1 would be the $nick and there would be no $2.

 

The typical way connections handled this was to remove $chr(37) to move the info around and then when sending it to the server, add it back on.

[hixxy]

Because mIRC uses % for variables and so has issues sometimes using % in room names. (One of the reasons MSN OCX sucks)

 

I understand all of that, but what I gave him works fine. Try typing this in mIRC:

 

//echo -a % $+ test

 

You will see "%test" in the active window. This shows that mIRC has in fact NOT evaluated the string as a variable. The same can be used for channels: % $+ #chan

 

You could also use $(%#chan,0) or $eval(%#chan,0), but whichever way you use (% $+ #chan being the shortest), there's no need to use two $chr()s

 

For instance. If you called an alias named testing and wanted to include the $nick and $chan:

If the channel had %# to start with mIRC wouldn't process it and so $1 would be the $nick and there would be no $2.

 

The typical way connections handled this was to remove $chr(37) to move the info around and then when sending it to the server, add it back on.

 

No, that is wrong.

 

alias test { echo -a $1 }

 

Now type this (exactly this) in the status window: /test %#x

 

You will see "%#x" come up. The "echo -a $1" will only evaluate $1 once, which will turn it into %#x, you would have to evaluate it again to get the value of that variable. For mIRC to do what you're saying, you would have to change the /test alias to this:

 

alias test { echo -a $eval($1,2) }

 

You have probably ran into problems with calling aliases on a timer or something which has misled you, but that is because timers evaluate everything an extra time.

[Josh`]

hixxy knows mIRC scripting like the back of their hand ;P