2009/10/19 Kris Maglione <maglion...@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 04:04:12PM -0400, Josh Rickmar wrote: >> >> I would like to (re)write an irc bot using sic, but the formatted output >> is making this harder then it could/should be. For example, the first >> field, the channel or irc server, is cut off at 12 characters by a >> colon. This becomes a problem when trying to parse the output because >> longer field names can be cut off. It can also cause the number of >> fields (seperated by whitespace) to change since a field with >=12 >> characters will be missing a space between the name and the colon. >> >> To make this program more useful, wouldn't it be better if all the >> information was presented to the user? Doing so would make writing bots >> much easier and would allow the user to easily format the output any way >> he/she wants to by passing sic's output to awk. > > I've written IRC bots with sic before, and made the same modification. Try > kris/sic.c from the hg repo.
That reminds me that I want to merge your stuff ;) Will do that during next days. Kind regards, Anselm
