Need help with highlighting
reddit / irc

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schmitzb8 · 2017-04-20 04:13

Hello, I'm using mIRC and I need help with setting up a highlight. I
want to be able to highlight any 8 letter string (any mix of numbers
and letters, not case sensitive). An example would be 9CA77E96. I'm
new to IRC and don't know how to set up scripts. Thanks.

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comicidiot · 2017-04-20 04:59

This sounds like it'll help you out:
https://forum.swiftirc.net/viewtopic.php?t=1250

You can create and check your RegEx here:
https://regex101.com

An example could be:

    \s([a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-
Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9])\s

There's a prettier way and this only works when the 8 character string
has a space before and after it. It'll even match with 8 letter words,
like "prettier" if there are any normal conversations going on. If the
strings you want to be highlighted on will all have capital letters
then remove a-z in each of the [a-zA-Z] blocks. Then you'll only match
numbers and capital letters in 8 character strings between spaces.

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schmitzb8 · 2017-04-20 05:32

Thank you for the response. I did realize that I need to use regex,
but as I said I am new to IRC so I don't know how to actually use it.
When I open the highlights option and paste it in the word list like
this, it doesn't work:

https://puu.sh/vq5SF/9d1d90e6ba.png

Normal words and $me works, but I don't know how to actually put a
regex expression in here that works.

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comicidiot · 2017-04-20 15:01

Yeah, no problem.

I don't have mIRC so I can't try this for myself but according to the
SwiftIRC link, this should be the format you put into mIRC:
    $regex([name], text, regex)

But I'm not exactly sure what to put where. I assume the expression
replaces "regex" but not sure about text and [name]. I can check it
out more in-depth later in the day.