On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 04:18:32PM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: > 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.
Ah, thanks. Yeah, much better. Josh Rickmar
