That shouldn't be the problem. Yes, it'll try that first, but in order to match the PRIVMSG part, it'll have to back off. My guess would be that it's something like CRLF issues. The best bet to debug it would be to look at exactly what's held in $message, checking for any characters you weren't expecting (trailing spaces? Trailing carriage return? etc), and possibly match against just /^!quit/ or /^!quit\b/, or maybe /^!quit\s*$/. But the advice to use an existing IRC framework like Net::IRC is good.

In reply to Re^2: Regexp problem matching commands for IRC bot by Eimi Metamorphoumai
in thread Regexp problem matching commands for IRC bot by StrifeChild

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