[Ayantir]

There are no function to get a textbuffer content

# mean sizeof(variable) , var must be an array. It's non recursive

if

local myarray = {1,2,3}

#myarray will be 3


(...) means arguments inherited from.

ex :

function mother(arg1, arg2, arg3)
    daughter(arg1, arg2, arg3)
end
 
function father(anotherarg)
    daughter(anotherarg)
end
 
function daughter(...)
  -- do stuff
end

here ... will be arg1, arg2, arg3 when called from mother, it will be anotherarg when called from father.

I see the function that allowed us to send chat messages is now protected, is that what all the bot spammers were using?

Not really.

I'm trying to figure out how to read the contents of the chat buffer so I can look for specific strings but I'm not seeing where its stored or how to access it.

You need to listen to

EVENT_CHAT_MESSAGE_CHANNEL (integer eventCode, integer messageType, string fromName, string text, bool isCustomerService)

You can't read chat buffer, you need to catch them when messages comes.