Also any realname that is longer than two args is automatically wildcarded, this could result in other users being banned, not typical, but still a possibility, try "set %realname $replace($6-,$chr(32),_)" that'll automatically format the banmask into arg1_arg2_arg3, etc.i may be interpreting that wrong but $6 cant have a space in it becase mIRC automatically space-delimits $1-