Do you like writing bots for irc? Well, if you have ever had trouble parsing the lines sent from the server into data you can use, I have a solution. Just use this simple OO module, which exports two methods: new, and parse_line ... new creates an object, and parse_line splits up each line from the irc server into usable data that your bot can then react to. Have fun! 
package Mind;


use strict;
use diagnostics;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;


sub new {

    my $class    = shift;

    my $self    = {
        NICK    => undef,
        HOST    => undef,
        TYPE    => undef,
        CHAN    => undef,
        TEXT    => undef
    };

    

    bless $self, $class;
    return $self;

}


sub parse_line {

    my $self    = shift;
    chop (my $line    = shift);

    my ($i_nick, $i_host, $i_type, $i_chan, $i_text);

    ($i_chan, $i_text)        = split(/ :/, $line);
    ($i_nick, $i_type, $i_chan)    = split(/ /,  $line);
    ($i_nick, $i_host)        = split(/!/,  $i_nick);

    $i_nick =~ s/://;

    $self->{NICK}    = $i_nick;
    $self->{HOST}    = $i_host;
    $self->{TYPE}    = $i_type;
    $self->{CHAN}    = $i_chan;
    $self->{TEXT}    = $i_text;

    #print Dumper($self); #test

    return $self;

}


#add your own method here
#to allow for your bot to
#react to things that happen
#in your channel like so:

sub interact {
        
        #test ...
        
        my $self        = shift;
        
        if ($self->{TEXT} =~ /hi shrax/gi && $self->{NICK} =~ /kenny/g
+i) {
        
                my $self        = "$self->{TYPE} $self->{CHAN} :$self-
+>{NICK}, it works!";
                return $self;

        }
        
        if ($self->{TEXT} =~ /how are you shrax/gi && $self->{NICK} =~
+ /kenny/gi) {
        
                my $self        = "$self->{TYPE} $self->{CHAN} :$self-
+>{NICK}, I'm fine thank you!";
                return $self;
        
        }
}


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