xDaeMoN
wonderful stuff, this script just got a whole lot better.

For the benifit of others i have a link to a page with wildcard / identifiers.
I have found alot more wildcard and identifiers that can be used with this, this page is a bit messy, but you can experiment with alot of them.

http://www.mirc.com/faq7.html#section7-1-3

Just a thought while I was experimenting that ide like to ask anyone.
Some of these wild cards are "self" initialised and others are getting info from other nicks. (im probably not explaining this right) so ill give you an example.

if i were to add this
!addtalk .checkhost:hi $nick the host address is $address
this would return the bots host address, now is it possible to make the bot read another address?. somthing like
!addtalk .checkhost (?):hi $nick (?)`s host address is $address(?)

so in a sence, im using the $address as an example,but there are other wildcards that could use the same method, such as $time.

Im alittle confused what $snick dose , perhaps this is the key?

anyway, A few folks are using this script and its a huge hit with them, one guy mentioned he may edit the script so it writes to a text pad line by line (easyer to read and edit the records).. and or make dialougs to view / edit / del..etc records.
If this dose materialise I will promtly post in here.

Thanks again xDaeMoN, and to all the other folks that supplied some hints and tips on this one.

regards
pan