Roleplaying chat system

Does anyone remember the role play chat system? You like type 'setname billy, then when you type ' it will have billy (in a the players color) and your message

You would have to use substrings, and detect which ` + - or whatever, was put in. Then you would have to set the rest after that to a string variable. I'm not really reliable for the whole substring thing, but it was just enough to get you started.