I'd like to be able to write an IRC bot using Net::IRC. The event framework of this module looks interesting and playing around with it a tad has shown it to be rather straight forward. However, my primary goal of the bot is to announce to a channel when a certian action happens in a third perl program that is runing as a daemon.

I am considering doing this through a socket with IO:Socket. From the Net::IRC documentation I think I should be able so simply create my socket 

my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new(
        LocalPort => $listen_port,
        Blocking  => 0,
        Listen    => 5 )
or croak $@;

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pass it to the addfh method (after creating my $irc object of course) 
$irc->addfh($server, \&from_socket, "r" );

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And then have &from_socket invoked everytime some data is written to the socket from my third parties' client connection (which likely will hold the socket open for weeks writing 20-40 times per day).

My problem is that I don't know what &from_socket should look like and have been unable to find any example code in the src, goole, SuperSearch. I've played with this off and on for a week and tried so many things I'm coding in circles now. I either seem to block or be unable to retrieve the data from the client.

Does anyone use addfh and have example code that they would be willing to share? Am I barking up the wrong tree and need to investigate another suggested plan of attack? Thanks Monks.

In reply to Using addfh in Net::IRC with a socket by drewhead

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