Hey i'm at the very beginning of perl and making a simple im bot. i downloaded the beginner bot from www.wiredbots.com, and its cool. my main purpose thus far is to make text responses to input from people im, so say my friend im's the bot, and then input would be what they say [or part of it, wired bots had a simple code
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Screenname: SCREENNAME;
Password: PASSWORD;
Message;
Hello|Hi|Hey=exact>Hi! How are you?|Hello!;
Are you=>Yep.|Probably.|I dunno.|Nah.;
/Message;
Connect;
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my problem was the 'are you=>yep.|probably.|i dunno.|nah.;' section doesnt work. when i tested and said "how are you", the response i get is "huh?" how would i include these inputs and responses into my bot?

input------------------response
hey,-------------------hey, hello, or hi.
whats up, sup, etc,----not much, but this is andys im bot
please respond soon, it would be much appreciated, and if i begin to grasp this stuff i may enter the business one day. also please email the response to aimbot1@hotmail.com

thanks

2002-06-11 Edit by Corion : Changed a single opening bracket ([) to it's HTML entity [ - maybe this helps unbreak the node.

In reply to im bot text responses by Anonymous Monk

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