Well, what I would do is use a prebuilt module such as Net::IRC or better yet, POE::Component::IRC to handle the service setup and event model. After that I would place my code in the on_join event, and do something like the following psudo code: 

if ( exists $seenusers{"$nick"} ) {  # I have seen the user
          my $epochnow = time();
          #check to see if enough time has gone by to say hello again.
+..
          say_hello("$nick") if ($seenuser{"$nick"} - $epchnow >= $HiT
+imeDly );
          #  if that fails then we have said hello recently, don't do 
+again...
}  else {  
#First time $nick has been seen...
say_hello("$nick");
}


sub say_hello {
my ($nick) = @_;
privmsg($nick, "hey there bud, welcome to $channel...\n");
$seenusers=time();
}

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Now you will want to write it whithout using globals, and put more tests in there, and make a cleanup loop to clean the hash as the time to live is past so you dont get a huge hash after time. thats all up to you, that is just psudo code -- you will have to write your own app.


-Waswas

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Adding A Channel Greet Message When A User Joins A Channel by waswas-fng
in thread Adding A Channel Greet Message When A User Joins A Channel by PilotinControl

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