Hello monks,

Well, it's been a while since I've been active here; I have been helping other with coding, on such places as OpenNAP, and of course, IRC. -- When others paste code, it's always a good idea to parse the code, and exclude their nick, or other appended information; So I wrote an all purpose chat client paste parser. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Chat client paste parser
# Author: dusk

use strict;

die "Usage: $0 [input file] [output file] [nick] [0:1]\n" unless $ARGV
+[3];

warn "Remember: 0 and 1 denote timestamped, or not -- respectively\n";

my $nick = $ARGV[2];


open (INPUT, "$ARGV[0]");

foreach (<INPUT>) {
  open (OUTPUT, ">>$ARGV[1]");

  if ($ARGV[3] == 0) { print OUTPUT "$1\n" if /^\W$nick\W\s(.*)/ }
  else { print OUTPUT "$1\n" if /^\W\d.*\W\s\W$nick\W\s(.*)/ }

}

close OUTPUT;
close INPUT;

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Edit ar0n -- fixed whitespace

In reply to Chat Client Paste Parser by dusk

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