Help with tcl script

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I downloaded bottalk.tcl from this site. After loading the script and restarting I was able to get my bot to respond to $nick, $nick; $nick: AND $nick alone.

[22:41] <@arfer> Osmosis
[22:41] <@osmosis> arfer: What? ×åãî íàäî ?
[22:41] <@arfer> osmosis
[22:41] <@osmosis> arfer: What? ×åãî íàäî ?
[22:42] <@arfer> osmosis, hello
[22:42] <@osmosis> arfer: Ïèâî åñòü ?
[22:42] <@arfer> Osmosis: hello
[22:42] <@osmosis> arfer: Ñêîê ãîäèêîâ òåáå ?
[22:42] <@arfer> Osmosis; what are you doing?
[22:42] <@osmosis> arfer: hello

I don't have a clue what the original poster did to break it.

Well, can you upload your bot so, i`ll use this new one and that?:D

[arfer]

It is from the Tcl archive here at www.egghelp.org/tcl.htm

No clue what you mean by my bot but that also is the latest version 1.6.19+ctcpfix

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Well, if your eggdrop works, and my no, maybe its about what version of eggdrop i have, so would you upload or give me bot like that?
I think the problem can be in the eggdrop, also my bot is not uploaded to a shell, i start it from my machine,from a .bat file..so..

[arfer]

Sorry but I'm not prepared to upload my complete bot, not that it would necessarily do you any good anyway. I very much doubt if this issue has anything to do with your bot version. If you still believe this to be the case simply compile/install the current version.

I just thought of a possibility. Are you using an IRC client that throws in a spurious space character after typing in part of an onchan nick and using a predefined key (usually tab) for autocompletion? This used to occur with XChat, though I don't know if current versions still do that.

However, it is possible that the script author has included the following otherwise seemingly improper code segment to get rid of any such character :-

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proc pub_dotalkz {nick uhost hand chan rest} {

set str [lrange $rest 0 end]

The variable 'rest' is not a list and shouldn't normally be treated as one. Even if it was a list, [lrange $rest 0 end] would return all of it, which sort makes it strange that there would be a need to additionally define 'str'.

There are other parts of the script that I think look rather ugly. For example :-

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if {$nick == $botnick} {
    return 0
}

if {$str == ""} {
    putchan $chan "$nick: What? ×åãî íàäî ?"
    return 0
}

Would look rather better as :-

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if {[isbotnick $nick]} {
    return 0
}

if {[string length $str] == 0} {
    putchan $chan "$nick: What? ×åãî íàäî ?"
    return 0
}

Not that this would excuse the cross-over of string and list manipulation functions, which I have maintained by using 'string length' on the list variable 'str' as returned from the 'lrange' statement.

I'm not saying these corrections and several others in the script would resolve your problem but I am saying that I wouldn't use this script.

[nml375]

One thing that I thought of, thanks to arfer's mentioning of spaces...
It's not uncommon for clients/extensions to add control characters (such as bold, color, underline, etc) when using nick completion.. In this case, the pub binding will undoubtedly fail, as eggdrop does not strip these prior mask/command matching. If this is the case, your best option would be to use a pubm binding and create a suitable pattern/regular expression, possibly along with the use of the stripcodes command.

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well, i didnt say to upload your complete bot of course, i say if u can give me link, or upload the version of that bot u are using