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2007-05-29T23:39:52-04:00

How to write eggdrop scripts that won't choke on special characters

Statistics: Posted by Alchera — Tue May 29, 2007 11:39 pm

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2007-05-29T18:37:50-04:00

ty very much

Statistics: Posted by Ace-T — Tue May 29, 2007 6:37 pm

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2007-05-29T18:17:45-04:00

Brackets "[]" have special meaning in Tcl so you need to escape them using the escape-character "\" (which is also a special character itself ). For example:

Code:

puthelp "privmsg #channel :\[Title\] The text is successfully sent to #channel"

Statistics: Posted by Sir_Fz — Tue May 29, 2007 6:17 pm

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2007-05-29T17:52:27-04:00

might be a n00bish question, but when i want the bot to priv msg my channel with [ and ] around some text it really hates them and wont msg the chan any ideas why or if this is fixable?

Statistics: Posted by Ace-T — Tue May 29, 2007 5:52 pm