replacing digits by ? within a nick

[z_one]

Hi,

What is the best code to use when replacing all digits within a nick by the interrogation mark.

Example:
Say I have the nick "Nick2356Name" and I want to ban "Nick????Name" thus automatically replacing all digits encountered by a "?"

Thanks in advance.

z_one

[ppslim]

I am not quite sure wat you are after, though this should work.

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set nick "nick1234name"
regsub -all -- {[0-9]} $nick "?" newnick
# $newnick now equals "nick????name"

Though say this relates to bans, which comes to a confusing point. IRC servers only use * as a wildcard, and ? will serve no purpose.

[z_one]

Though say this relates to bans, which comes to a confusing point. IRC servers only use * as a wildcard, and ? will serve no purpose.

Dunno about other networks (maybe you're right) but on DALnet the "?" matches a single character in a ban.
Thus if you ban d?ck!*@* then both deck and duck nicks won't be able to join your channel.

Thanks for your help, I'll try the code asap

z_one

[strikelight]

I am not quite sure wat you are after, though this should work.

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set nick "nick1234name"
regsub -all -- {[0-9]} $nick "?" newnick
# $newnick now equals "nick????name"

Though say this relates to bans, which comes to a confusing point. IRC servers only use * as a wildcard, and ? will serve no purpose.

Don't know what networks you've been using, but all I've used (Undernet, EFNet, dalnet, etc..) support the "?" single character matching token.

[ppslim]

I don't know if this is true.

I tried making a few tests about 15 months back, when I was doing some work on testing and implimenting some new stuff into no-spam, and for another script, that was designed to inteligently pick a hostmask from a user.

On EFnet, I found that only the * worked.

Now, with the use of the 2 IRCD's (comstud and hybrid), there may be a differance, and on top, it would vary from server to server.

I gave up work on this, plainly due to the fact, that I couldn't test it, and if the support wasn't in 1 of the big 4 networks, then is was pointless.