i'd just like to re-iterate napa182's points because, quite frankly, i am bewildered that anyone could harbor such an absurd belief as Teen's. he even went out of his way to test it on an older version as if he thought he was making some significant point!

Teen, are you seriously advocating that scripters ignore or otherwise go out of their way to create old-version compliant workarounds regarding the hundreds of changes made during the last 4 and a half years? are we really supposed to be weary of the old line length limit (nearly 5 times shorter than the current one); not take advantage of mIRC's now full Unicode support; ignore the indispensable new additions to the PCRE library; etc.

scripters who post snippets to this site aren't being paid to do so, why should they be held to a set of standards that is at best unrealistic and at worst entirely asinine?