Irc.pl

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#!/usr/bin/perl
# Code to connect to an IRC channel
# Started: 2008-06-20

use IO::Socket;
use IO::Select;

$user    = 'odserver';
$pass    = '********';
$channel = '#organicdesign';

$sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
	PeerAddr => 'irc.freenode.net',
	PeerPort => 6667,
	Proto    => 'tcp'
) or die "could not make the connection";

while (<$sock>) {
	if (/(NOTICE AUTH).*(checking ident)/i) {
		print $sock "NICK $user\nUSER $user 0 0 :odbot.pl\n";
		last;
	}
}

while (<$sock>) {

	# if the server asks for a ping
	print $sock "PONG :".(split(/ :/, $_))[1] if /^PING/;

	# end of MOTD section
	if (/ (376|422) /) {
		print $sock "NICKSERV :identify $user $pass\n";
		last;
	}
}

# Wait for a few secs and join the channel
sleep 3;
print $sock "JOIN $channel\n";

# Main channel activity oop
my %streams = ();
my $buffer = '';
my $select = new IO::Select $sock;
while (1) {
	for my $handle ($select->can_read(1)) {
		my $stream = fileno $handle;

		if (sysread $handle, my $data, 100) {

			# Append the data to the appropriate stream
			$streams{$stream} = exists($streams{$stream}) ? $streams{$stream}.$data : $data;

			# Remove and process any complete messages in the stream
			if ($streams{$stream} =~ s/^(.*\r?\n)//s) {
				for (split /\r?\n/, $1) {

					($command, $text) = split(/ :/, $_);

					# Respond to pings if any
					if ($command eq 'PING') {
						$text =~ s/[\r\n]//g;
						print $handle "PONG $text\n";
						next;
					}

					# Extract info and tidy
					($nick, $type, $chan) = split(/ /, $_);
					($nick, $host) = split(/!/, $nick);
					$nick =~ s/://;
					$text =~ s/[:\r\n]+//;

					# Process if the line is a message in the channel
					if ($chan eq $channel) {
						$ts = localtime();
						$ts = $1 if $ts =~ /(\d\d:\d\d:\d\d)/;
						print "($ts) $nick: $text\n";

						# Respond if message is known
						if ($text =~ /(^|\W)$user(\W|$)/i) {
							$msg = "Yo $nick, you talking to me?";
							print $handle "PRIVMSG $channel :$msg\n";
							print "($ts) $user: $msg\n";
						}
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}
}