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i'm making a perl irc bot, and im having trouble parsing this D:

i need to get 'akwardsaw!~myip PRIVMSG #ethan :s/lol//;' parsed into 2 different variables.. i need 'akwardsaw' in one, and every thing after 'PRIVMSG #ethan :' into an other, and im having lots of troubles with it D:

what i have to get the message:
$messge = $in =~ /PRIVMSG $chan \s+(.*)/;

where $in is the variable that holds the string, and $chan is the channel the bot is in. i suck at regex, and im sure im missing something :p

Alright, heres a tip, irc servers do not allow the characters : ! ~ @ and space in the nick, name(I dont think) and ip.
idk if perl can be/is oop, but make a class/type/struct called Message. Every time a new message is sent, have a method parse it and create a new Message.

The line sent sent back from an irc server to the clients looks like
:noidea`!~noidea`@let.mee.frost.your.flakes PRIVMSG #SRL :testing
Have it go through the string and have it store the info.
:noidea`!~noidea`@let.mee.frost.your.flakes PRIVMSG #SRL :testing
name^….nick^……………ip^……………..msg type^..chan^..msg^

I think you know a bit of java, so here a crappy example I made

class Message {                   //prevent null showing up in the message
    String original = "", sender = "", name = "", message="", ip = "", channel = "", type = "", originalmessage = "";
    Tokenizer tokens = null;
    String[] words = null, originalwords = null;
    Core utils = new Core();
    ArrayList<String> info = null;
    public int MESSAGE_START_INDEX = 3;

    //x x x x x x PRIVMSG channel
    public void parsemessage(String line) {
        //StringTokenizer newtokens = new StringTokenizer();
        info = utils.multisplit(line,  ":|!|~|@| ");
        if (info.size() < 5) return;
        original = line;
        sender = info.get(utils.SENDER_IND);
        name = info.get(utils.NAME_IND);
        ip = info.get(utils.IP_IND);
        type = info.get(utils.MSG_TYPE_IND);
        channel = info.get(utils.CHANNEL_IND);
        for (int i = utils.MESSAGE_IND; info.size() > i; i++) message += info.get(i)+ " ";
        if (message.length() > 0) {
            tokens = new Tokenizer(message);
            words = message.split(" ");
        }
        originalwords = line.split(" ");
        if (originalwords.length > 3) {
            originalmessage += originalwords[MESSAGE_START_INDEX].substring(1);//get rid of the :
            for (int i = MESSAGE_START_INDEX+1; originalwords.length > i; i++) {
                originalmessage += " "+originalwords[i];
            }
        }
    }

    Message(String line) {
        parsemessage(line);
    }
}

thanks :) i'll look into it, try to port over to perl and stuff, but i was hoping for it to be in regex :( it makes it so much cleaner

From: Awkwardsaw
thanks :) i'll look into it, try to port over to perl and stuff, but i was hoping for it to be in regex :( it makes it so much cleaner

in java

String[] info = line.split(":|!|~|@| ");

but unfortunately that ruins whats after #channel :stuff to say

I feel like this could be much easier..

From: i luffs yeww
I feel like this could be much easier..

idk, split helps a lot, but im to lazy atm to add it to the bot ;)

im torn between that and pos(m//)