Can someone explain every single thing about this code to me?
reddit / irc

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[deleted] · 2014-09-21 03:46

sF1 {

     var %n = $?="What's your nickname and password?"

    tokenize 32 %n

    nick $1

    msg nickserv identify $2

    }

The code is in the mIRC Scripting Language.

Thanks!

By the way, are there any channels I can go to where people will help
me with coding? I program in a few languages and i'm trying to teach
myself but I rarely find anything useful. Can someone link me to the
documentation too?

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wmcscrooge · 2014-09-21 04:16

The [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/irc/comments/2gzhd9/redditprogethe
r_on_freenode_come_visit/) before yours promotes a sub exactly for
this: #reddit-progether on freenode. we specialize more in larger
projects rather than individual help, but I'm sure we could help
anyways.

And try adding the an extra line between the lines for better
formatting. Your code looks like one big line and is pretty hard to
decipher that way. bonus points if you add four spaces before each
line (code blocks) and say which language it's in.

At a glance though it looks to be asking for nick/password, parsing
the input and then message nickserv the info to identify an irc user.

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[deleted] · 2014-09-21 04:35

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wmcscrooge · 2014-09-21 04:42

okay, looked up some mirc documentation, doesn't look too bad
(although the syntax is weird as hell).

basically:

line 1: sets up a function

line 2: gets the response from the prompt "What's your  . . . . "

line 3: tokenize splits up the reponse based on spaces
line 4: set the nickname to the first word/section (this one I'm not
so sure about)

line 5: runs the command to send a password (the second word/section)
to nickserv identifying the user.

line 6: closing bracket for the function

Best I can do since I don't actually use mirc

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Pteraspidomorphi · 2014-09-21 10:56

/help /tokenize

    /tokenize <c> <text>

    Fills the $1 $2 ... $N identifiers with tokens in <text> separated
by character <c>, eg.:

    /tokenize 44 a,b c,d,e

    The above command would set $1 = a, $2 = b c, $3 = d, $4 = e

So you are correct about line 4.

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wmcscrooge · 2014-09-21 17:32

awesome, kinda confused about the whole number scheme (32 vs 44) but I
just assumed 32 = space since that's what most of the examples use.