Thread: Looping Issue

I am currenty writing an irc bot. In accordance with the rfc there are a number of strings I have to send once I connnect to be authenticated. Mainly:

Code:

NICK mynicklewl2323
PONG randomnums2323
USER mynicklewl2323 blah blah :blah

There are more but you get the point. Anyway as of now I have been storing them all in a structure and manually send()'ing them. Which is tedious and ugly.

I need a way to put them in a loop and have them send and frankly I'm at a loss right now.
-Thanks in advance

first off, does IRC script support the c programming language?

Which ort are you trying to send the strings to?

What do you know about the default send routine?.,,

Not irc script. I make a socket connection, tcp, to the irc server and follow rfc guidlines. You can actually use netcat as an irc client if you understand the protocol.
Anyway, for those who actually understand my question I'm simply wondering if there is a better way then a multidimensional array.

Well, as you're aware the strings do of course have parameters (the user's nick, username, real name, and the value of the PING reply string, and the password, et cetera), so having a list calls might be appropriate, since it's only on startup. I'd guess you're doing something like:

Code:

sendf(sock, "PASS %s\n", server->pass);
sendf(sock, "NICK %s\n", user->nick);
sendf(sock, "USER %s 1 1 :%s\n", user->username, user->ircname);
/* wait for/read in PING request */
sendf(sock, "PONG %s", ping_reply);

If so, I can't see the harm in that.

Thanks for your reply. Yes, that's what I'm doing. Just wondered if it was the most elegant solution. As for the PONG reply I'm using a function that calls strtok() and strcat().