looks like someone has already made it.

http://www.mircscripts.org/showdoc.php?type=code&id=4491

its a great looking script btw, nice compact use of COM too.

i think it has many practical uses. many site offer a JSON web service
even google offers a multitude:
youtube
dictionary
web search
translate
to name a few
And as for parsing, you could use a COM call to MSScriptControl.ScriptControl
but anyway, it seems im alone in thinking there is a practical use for this in mirc. ah well

thanks bone282, but i can't really see a practical application for JSON in mIRC and would be quite messy, syntactically, to generate and parse for a typeless language
on another note though, i did post a OOP style structure a little while ago if your interested

i dont use mIRC anymore. but, having a switch alias not too dissimilar in its use from the switch() function found in many languages. i like it. +rate +like.

love to see a json_decode alias next though ;]

it's a good idea, but unfortunately the syntax required is awkward and imposes too many annoyances on the user such as:

• the inability to use certain phrases in their commands (such as 'break')
• the obvious drawback of having to escape command separators and remembering to add '$&' to the end of each line
• the fact that the entire switch statement spans one single command and is therefore constrained by mIRC's line length limit of 4,150 characters (even, and often more significantly, AFTER evaluation).
• similarly, the entire switch statement is evaluated at once, resulting in unnecessary and possibly undesired evaluation of pieces of code. some of these may be computationally expensive and some may produce unwanted side effects.

while it is possible to implement this with less awkward syntax and improve upon it by trimming this list of annoyances, we cannot escape the fact that, in mIRC, /goto provides the most simple and efficient switch statement analogy ;P however, like that 'arrays in mIRC' demonstration from a while back, this serves as a fun and thought provoking demonstration

fixed.
it was a blatantly obvious solution, ([^ ]+)

Deleted.

@Gummo nice catch, but there doesn't seem to be a quick fix for it

Jethro_, probably referring to the fact that you have to join each line together to form a pseudo-switch which is actually just a single command.

Won't that fail if you use any non-word character as your case criteria? (\w+)

What does it mean by "switch like?"

here's an example alias:

alias tests {
  switch $1 $&
    case 1: $&
    echo -a Hello $!+ $!chr(124) $chr(124) echo -a World! $&
    break $&
    case 2: $&
    echo -a Hello World! $&
    break $&
    case 3: $&
    echo -a $me $&
    break $&
    default: $&
    echo -a Default case $&
    break
}