Save/Read Script

By Myidentityisasecret on May 11, 2013

Ehm...
Yeah...

alias save {
  if ($1 != $null) {
    if ($2 != $null) {
      set $+(%,save,.,$1) $2-
      echo -a ' $+ $1 $+ ' has been set to: $2-
    }
    else {
      echo -a Syntax: /save <name> <args>
    }
  }
  else {
    echo -a Syntax: /save <name> <args>
  }
}
alias read {
  if ($1 != $null) {
    if ($($+(%,save,.,$1),2) != $null) {
      echo -a $1 is: $($+(%,save,.,$1),2)
    }
    else {
      echo -a Error, $1 was never saved.
    }
  }
  else {
    echo -a Syntax: /read <name>
  }
}

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Comments

Yawhatnever - Jun 11, 2013

Using 'read' as an alias name is an ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE IDEA because mIRC already has an identifier $read().
The same is true of /save. Just be glad you didn't call one of them /dec and then try to use it in another script inside a loop to decrease a variable (I've seen that before).

Checking if $1 is $null inside alias 'save' is redundant, because if $2 is not $null then $1 cannot be $null. Since the only valid format you have requires two parameters, you only need to check if $2 exists to know that they both exist.

$+(%,save,.,$1)

could be

$+(%,save.,$1)

because 'save' and '.' are both literal text. There's no reason to $+() them together.

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