lol thnx Heather :P

Phil, you would. This makes me laugh!

:P sunslayer, you miss the analogy of "nothing is perfect." Even though one strives hard enough to make something perfect, he or she'll always wind up spending their lifetime looking for perfection that will never fulfill their satisfaction.

Perfect codes don't exist

alias perfect return 1
while ($perfect) { echo Perfect codes do exist }

I just want to conclude this subject by saying, and I did mention the regex pattern does minimize the "false positives" LITERALLY, compared to the use of isin, iswm, or $($+(,$me,) or $wildtok (Except for $istok, though, it won't trigger if someone places a common punctuation character next to $me; it's still not ideal), BUT that does NOT mean my example is bulletproof. As a matter of fact, and if you really want to dig into this subject matter of how it gets failed or exploited, a so-called perfect code will still fall into victim. Perfect codes don't exist, so do crimes in the real world, which will never cease to happen. If this was a perfect world we live in, we wouldn't have criminals, hackers..etc..in the first place.

Well, a nickname like that is uncommon to me, especially that's considered an invalid or erroneous character to have in a nickname. The networks I've dealt with won't allow it.

i just asked u the same question u asked me,
by the way, if there is nicks like

phil
phil´

both will run the command u know

Flood control in this snippet, in my opinion, is un-needed because of its short and simplistic build. Not to mention the user triggering it will be sending just as much traffic as this script.SunnyD, it's better safe than sorry!

Sunny, not any punctuation characters, just the ones mentioned. They're the ones used often followed by $me

Ok, I didn't expect that sort of fallacy, Dean. You purposely get technical with it, but who would enter an action $me in that fashion? :p

What this pattern does is to not be triggered by any character followed by $me, while allowing the common space, exclamation mark, period, and question mark to go through. :-)

Jethro_'s trigger matches your name alone with any punctuation following it. Whereas yours matches any occurrence of your name within the string "fcsdPowersadfjb" for example would match if my name was Power.

doesn't it do the same as mine? except i has FC... and whats this for?

$(/( |^)\Q $+ $me $+ \E(?![^\w\s\!\.\?]$)\b/iS)

doesnt that have the same purpose as what i have?

Jethro_ do u remember that post u said that if someone say the nick with special characters it will call him to?
and u mentioned if someone call &Dean it will run the trigger

but if someone call
Jethro&,Jethro*,Jethro},Jethro´

it will run too...

Well, mine will match precisely for $me without false positives literally. If anyone finds any fallacy with that pattern, let me know.

Jethro_ and his complicated script edits. lol

Yup, my bad. lol Replaced it with the action.

i think he wants it on action event...

This one is much better if interested:

on $*:action:$(/( |^)\Q $+ $me $+ \E(?![^\w\s\!\.\?]$)\b/iS):#:{
  if !%p { inc -u4 %p
    msg $chan 11,1Ohhhh9,1 $nick $+ , 8,1do it harder... 7,1harderr.. 4,1HARDERRR!!! 
  }
}

Flood control in this snippet, in my opinion, is un-needed because of its short and simplistic build. Not to mention the user triggering it will be sending just as much traffic as this script.

well i usually dont get flooded lol, but i suppose i could add FC on the scripts before i add them, i just need to remember what the code for it is. lol isnt FC just vars and if statements?

you should add some sort of flood control to this or risk being flooded off.

$($+(,$me,)) why two extra asterisks when one will do it just fine? Trigger flood control is advised so you don't get overwhelmed with some rascals doing an action on you repeatedly.