Local Identifiers - mIRC

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Local identifiers are identifiers which only function inside specific events. Attempting to call such identifiers from outside of their designed scope might have undesired results or might simply return $null.

Below is a list of all the local identifiers for all events.

$event - returns the name of the event
$halted - returns $true if the default actions for this event has been halted
$eventid - returns an ID so that dll can evaluate local identifiers during events.
$eventparms - if the event has a matchtext, returns the value of the matchtext with spaces preserved
$matchkey - if the event has a matchtext, returns the value of the matchtext, with spaces lost.

IRC related events which involve an user

$address - returns the address of the user triggering the event in the format user@host
$maddress - returns the address of the user for that event, as provided by the server
$fulladdress - returns the full address of the user triggering the event in the format nick!user@host
$nick - returns the nickname of the user triggering the event
$rawmsg - returns the raw server line message
$rawbytes - returns the undecoded raw line message.
$site - return the part after the @ in $address
$wildsite - returns the address of the user triggering the event in the format *!*@host
$ulevel - returns the level of the user that was matched for the triggered event.
$clevel - returns the matching event level for a triggered event

They apply to:

There a few more local identifier related to IRC which exists only in specific IRC events/case:

$banmask - used inside on ban and on unban, returns the mask that is being banned/unbanned
$bnick - used inside on ban and on unban, returns the nickname that is being banned/unbanned, if any
$chan - used inside events which trigger for channel window
$hnick - used inside on help and on dehelp, returns the nickname being given +h/-h
$knick - used inside on kick, returns the nickname being kicked
$newnick - used inside on nick, returns the new nickname
$opnick - used inside on op, on deop, on owner and on deowner, returns the nickname being opped/deopped/owner'd/deowner'd
$vnick - used inside the on voice and on devoice events, returns the name of the voiced/devoiced nickname
$cd - used inside the on chat and on serv events, returns the current directory of the connected user
$parseline $parsetype $parseutf - available in the on parseline event, returns the raw line, the in/out type of direction, and whether or not mIRC is going to decode to utf8 respectively.
$msgstamp - returns UTC timestamp for a irc server message that has an IRCv3 @time prefix tag

Non IRC events

Here is a list for non IRC events:

$filename - used inside on filesent, on getfail, on midiend, on waveend, on songend, on nosound, on playend, on mp3end, returns the filename that was involved
$hotline - used inside on hotlink, returns the full line containing the word which made the event triggers.
$hotlink - used inside on hotlink, returns information about the context in which the on hotlink event triggered
$hotlinepos - used inside on hotlink, returns line number and word position of the matched word
$parseline - used inside on parseline, returns the line being parsed
$parsetype - used inside on parseline, returns the type of message, in/out
$parseutf - used inside on parseline, returns $true if the line is going to be utf8 encoded/decoded after the event
$target - used inside events which accept a window parameter, returns the name of the window
$agentname - used inside on agent, returns the name of the agent.
$window - returns the name of the window that was left in a 'leave' menu {} event, whereas $leftwin is not a local identifier
$ctrlenter - used inside on input, returns $true if keys control+enter have been used to trigger the event.
$inpaste - used inside on input, returns $true if the event is triggering because you are pasting (multiple lines usually), not because you pressed enter.
$did - used inside on dialog, returns the ID of the control that is triggering the event
$dname - used inside on dialog, returns the name of the dialog that is triggering the event
$devent - used inside on dialog, returns the name of the event that is triggering the on dialog event.
$keyval - used inside on keydown and on keyup, returns the value of the keypress, always a number.
$keychar - used inside on keydown and on keyup, returns the character of the keypress.
$keyrpt - used inside on keydown, returns $true if the event triggers because the key is held down.
$menu - used inside menu { } event, returns the name of the menu
$menutype - used inside menu { } event, returns the type of the menu
$menucontext - used inside menu { } event, returns the context in which the popup was created
$sockbr - used inside socket events where /sockread is allowed, returns the number of bytes read
$sockname - used inside socket events, returns the name of the socket
$signal - used inside on signal event, returns the name of the signal.
$iaddress - used inside on dns, returns the ip address, if available
$raddress - used inside on dns, returns the resolved address
$naddress - used inside on dns, returns the address being resolved
$modefirst - used inside any channel specific mode event (on op, on dehelp, but not on rawmode or on mode), returns $true if the mode you're dealing with is the first
$modelast - used inside any channel specific mode event (on op, on dehelp, but not on rawmode or on mode), returns $true if the mode you're dealing with is the last
$mode - used typically inside on rawmode, returns the Nth nick affected by a mode.

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Additionally $1- is filled with a message, applicable in the following events:

on text, on action, on chat, on snotice, on notice on serv, on open, on ctcpreply, ctcp returns the text that was sent by the user
on input - returns the text in the editbox
on kick - returns the kick message
on connectfail - returns the error message
on error - returns the error message
on hotlink - returns the word you hovered (stripped from control code).
on mode, on rawmode and on servermode - returns the new modes
on quit & on part, returns the quit/part message if any
on ping & on pong, returns the ping/pong value
on signal - returns the parameters of the signal
on tabcomp - returns the line in which you pressed the tab key in the editbox
on topic - returns the new topic
on usermode - returns the new usermode
on vcmd - returns the recognized word

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