getting rid of letters in a ! trigger

[NewzUK]

hi

I use a stockquote script for my trading channel, where one of the commands is !q <symbol> to get a quote. I've already cut the command down from !quote to !q, but I'm wondering if it's possible to have it so the user will just go !<symbol> (eg !msft). I've tried this myself by dropping the q, but you still have to put a space after the ! for it to work...any ideas?

here's the line from the script:

bind pub - !q pub:quote

Thanks!

[Papillon]

bind pubm - "* !*" pub:quote

this will match against all lines said in any channel starting with ! , replace the first * with #chan if you want to enable it in just one channel

[NewzUK]

hi - tried putting that line in but it made the bot quit with error 'wrong arguments' etc

[ppslim]

I can't see any reason why the bot would quit, or make an error for that matter.

It's likely that this is not all that is needed.

However, through the majic that is Tcl, locate the line that starts "proc pub:quote" and make the next line

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set [lindex [info args pub:quote] 4] [string trimleft [subst $[lindex [info args pub:quote] 4]] !]

When using the PUB type bind, the first word is the command, while the rest of the line are the arguments.

With the PUBM bind, the whole line becomes the arguments.

The code above, should in theory strip the ! from the begining of the line, and make the script operate as you intend it to.

On top, even if you go back to using the !q method, the above code will not affect it's use.

[NewzUK]

hi again

wonderful - it's working great now!

thank you very much for the help - much appreciated!



Damon.

[NewzUK]

sorry one more thing...

it seems now to be responding to lines have ! in other places...

[16:49:50] <NewzBoy> testing!
[16:49:51] <News24> TESTING! No such stock symbol found

is it possible to make it only respond to lines that start with ! only like:

[16:52:25] <NewzBoy> !yhoo
[16:52:27] <News24> YHOO 18.80 -.350000381 (-1.83%) Last Trade: 7:56pm (USET) Low-High: 18.56 - 19.30 Volume: 9674491

[ppslim]

The bind line quoted above is iucorrect, and causes too wider match.

change the bind too

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bind pubm - "% !*" pub:quote

You will need to issue a ".restart" after doign this.

[NewzUK]

fantastic - working properly now!

thank you again - it's a great improvement for the channel!

[NewzUK]

one more thing (again!) sorry...

is there a way to make the script ignore certain ! commands, as I have another script that uses a one word ! command, and it's triggering off the stock quote script ...

sorry this just came about now that the other problem is fixed!

[Papillon]

just add a if match in your proc.. returning 0 if it matches the other command

[NewzUK]

so would something like this be right if the word I want to ignore is: fut


if {[string $arg]==fut} {
return 0
}

[GodOfSuicide]

NewzBoy, could you post the script in here ?

[NewzUK]

this is the piece of script - basically I want to add a return line that will ignore specific words if typed in the channel in the format of !word - as I have another script that is clashing with this one...

bind pubm - "% !*" pub:quote

proc pub:quote { nick uhost handle channel arg } {
set [lindex [info args pub:quote] 4] [string trimleft [subst $[lindex [info args pub:quote] 4]] !]

[ppslim]

Plase this at the very top of the file, let alone the script.

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lappend IGwords this
lappend IGwords that

Create a new line, for each word you want to ignore, changing the obvious ("this" and "that") with your ignored words.

After this, place the following line, as the next line in the script

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foreach _IG [uplevel #0 {set IGwords}] { if {[string equal -nocase $_IG [lindex [split $arg] 0]]} { return } }

[NewzUK]

awesome - that works great!

thanks very much guys for you help!