Bot Question
reddit / irc

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Linuxthekid · 2015-07-04 13:46

Is there any way for a bot to recognize  /r/ and respond with a
complete reddit link?

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Jonno_FTW · 2015-07-04 14:37

Yes, it's called a regex and should be easy in any modern language.

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ne7split · 2015-07-04 18:20

In Perl:

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    my $msg = "Hello from /r/irc";

    # check $msg for something that looks like a subreddit
    # e.g. /r/irc, r/irc
    my ($sub) = $msg =~ /(\/?r\/[a-z]+)/i;

    # if it doesn't start with a /, prepend to string.
    if ($sub !~ /^\//) {
        $sub = '/'.$sub;
    }

    # check $sub isn't just a slash
    if ($sub ne '/') {
        print "https://reddit.com$sub";
    }

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Linuxthekid · 2015-07-05 04:41

Is there a premade bot that does something similar that I can modify?

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ne7split · 2015-07-05 13:30

What system do you want to run it on? Which client do you use?