Hello, i am making an AIM-Bot, and i am very new 2 perl, and i was wondering how i can make the bot recall a file (screenname.emo) and add/subtract a number from that file, when it recieves a specified message. I guess it would go something like this?: 
    if (! -e "emotions/$victim.emo") {
    open (DATA, ">emotions/$victim.emo");
    print DATA "0";
    close (DATA);
    }

if ($msg =~ /^sorry/ || $msg =~ /^srry/ || $msg =~ /^sry/)
    {open (FILE, ">emotions/$victim.emo");
     $emo = <FILE>;
     print DATA "$emo ++ 1";
     close(FILE);
     return "it's OK.";
    }

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With "sorry", "srry", or "sry" as the message recieved to the bot. Any ideas? Thanks!

In reply to Need Help w/ AIMBot by Sleepaholic88

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