Ok, I am making my bot have the capability for the masters to say for example "~ban shoe" in the channel and the bot will do it. I got that part down, the part I am having trouble with is getting it to reconize the name (in this case shoe) after the command, anyone have any idea how I can get it to eliminate the '~ban 'part of the message when the bot sends the kick command?

Search the string for whitespace, return the string found after the whitepace. What language is this in? (/me guesses Visual Basic)

yes it is in VB.

(assuming that strData contains only the message "~ban [name]")

[code]
Dim strCommand as String
Dim strArguement as String 'can optionaly make an array

strCommand = Mid$(strData, 2, InStr(strData, " ") - 1)
strArguement = Mid$(strData, InStr(strData, " ") + 1)
[/code]

In your case strCommand = "ban" and strArguement = "shoe"

Even simpler:
[code]if Instr(textline, " ") > 1 Then
  cmd = Split(textline, " ")(0)
  arg1 = Split(textline, " ")(1)
end if[/code]

Read the DATES see 2003!

[quote author=Warrior link=topic=498.msg111963#msg111963 date=1115777303]
Read the DATES see 2003!
[/quote]

Yes, so why are you reviving old topics?

[quote author=OnlyMeat link=topic=498.msg112041#msg112041 date=1115808603]
[quote author=Warrior link=topic=498.msg111963#msg111963 date=1115777303]
Read the DATES see 2003!
[/quote]

Yes, so why are you reviving old topics?
[/quote]

He isn't.  Apparently there was some "spammer" yesterday