how to format a number in mIRC?

Question

My remote script gets a variable with a number formatted like 4365271385. I would like the script to send a message with the variable in it formatted like 4.365.271.385.

I searched the internet and the help file, but i couldn't find it. Sometimes the number is in the thousands, sometimes in the billions.

How to do this? Can't be hard, can it?

Answer 1

It is indeed not very hard. Use $bytes, in your case $bytes(4365271385,bd)

• b parameter: Comma-formats the number for bytes.
• d parameter: Returns the value whilst retaining decimal point values. You don't need this if you're only working with whole integers. But it's handy to have.

More at http://en.wikichip.org/wiki/mirc/identifiers/$bytes