MIRC script

Script storage

Data storage

• Scripts can read from and write to files

Binary variables

• Contain unlimited (8192 bytes prior to mIRC 6.1) raw data
• Globally accessible via commands and identifiers
• Automatically disappear when script returns control to mIRC (and not to another part of a script)
• Prefixed with & (&VariableName)

Hashes

• Contain keys (which are identical to binary variables except with no prefix)
• Globally accessible via commands and identifiers
• Automatically disappear when exiting mIRC
• Not prefixed

Global variables

• Contain 945 bytes of space-delimited data (variable names use up that space: %a can store up to 944 bytes of data and %ace can store up to 942 bytes of data)
  • Cannot store NUL (ASCII 0) or consecutive spaces
• Globally accessible
• Do not automatically disappear (stored automatically in a mIRC initialization file)
• Prefixed with % (%VariableName)

Local variables

• Contain 945 bytes of space-delimited data (variable names use up that space: %a can store up to 944 bytes of data and %ace can store up to 942 bytes of data)
  • Cannot store NUL (ASCII 0) or consecutive spaces
• Accessible only by the alias that created them
• Automatically disappear when exiting the alias that created them
• Prefixed with % (%VariableName)

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