How to dynamically set variable names in mIRC script

Posted by Phil Lavin on Apr 14, 2012 in Blog | 1 comment

mIRCWikipedia: mIRC is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for Microsoft Windows, created in 1995 and developed by Khaled Mardam-Bey. Although it is a fully functional chat utility, its integrated scripting language... does not have arrays. The nearest and best alternative to arrays in mIRC, is dynamicly named variables. For example, %var1, %var2, %var3, %var4 etc.

To set a dynamically named variable, you simply join two variables together, using square brackets, as follows:

Source code

set %var [ $+ [ %i ] ] MY VALUE

This code shows you how to emulate an array, using this method:

Source code

set %i 1
 
while (%1 <= 10) {
	set %var [ $+ [ %i ] ] %stuff_variable
}

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