an AIM bot uses perl to logon to Aol Instant Messenger. It responds to users that instant messenge it. The data is a scalar. It is text. $msg. It might equal "How are you?" or something like that. It is all fine and dandy until someone says "How are u". The bot doesn't know how to respond to that. I would need to be able to parse the "how" in "How are u" into $parsed and the are in "How are you" into $parsed2 or something like that so I could say

if($parsed eq "how" && $parsed2 eq "are"){
$msg = "I'm fine. How are you?"
}

and give a responce. So basically what I need is to parse $msg at every space and create a variable for each one. Or something like that. Any suggestions? Thanks

In reply to Re: Parsing user input for AIM bot by SlideE6B
in thread Parsing user input for AIM bot by SlideE6B

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