Awesome. thank you.
i changed one thing:
putquick "PRIVMSG $chan :\00304(\00315PRE\00304)\00315 $stamp \00304(\00315$section\00304)\00315 $release"

to

putquick "PRIVMSG $nick :\00304(\00315PRE\00304)\00315 $stamp \00304(\00315$section\00304)\00315 $release"

so it send the search results as a message. please correct me if this is very wrong/stupid, as i have not done any tcl/irc coding.

Nice. thank you. i have one problem though. when i run a search it comes back with one result (max is set to 10) and an error from my eggdrop: Tcl error [presearch]: can't read "result": no such variable

any help would be greatly appreciated.