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Hi - I've been using Lynx to retrieve news headlines from this site: http://www.claridenleu.com/research/index.cfm?fuseaction=research.reutnews&lang=en&cfid=350910&cftoken=23607227 ...which has been working fine until lately when they have put a country check which you have to click on t...

Hi there I have a series of scripts to pull headlines off various sites. To avoid repeating the previous item, each time the bot goes to send a story to the room it checks to see if it was the last story by: if {($news != $newslast)} { send to room and set $newslast etc The problem I'm having with s...

ah yep thanks speechles...that's cool. it's like the '$mid' use in mIRC scripting that I was looking for.

thanks also!

thanks for those ideas nml375...

I actually got it working using regexp by putting the data variable at the end...should have thought of it earlier!

thanks again =)

Hi - I'm trying to get rid of the date/month/year on the end of these news headlines: UK's Brown hopes Zimbabwe can rejoin Commonwealth 27 Nov 2009 At the moment I'm doing it by setting the 27 Nov 2009 part as a variable from another part of the webpage, and doing a string trimright to remove the va...

Many thanks Offlo - have now integrated this in my scripts and I understand how catch works now...

Cheers!

Hi - I'm just looking for a simple way to catch the log error:

"couldn't open socket: host is unreachable"

then, do "something".

I run many sockets so just want to run this check every so often for the errors.

Thanks in advance!

Hi. I recently updated my bots to the latest eggdrop version, but since the restarts I'm getting alot of errors that weren't there before. For one, this when trying to retrieve http data: Tcl error : Illegal characters in URL path All of a sudden it's rejecting URL's etc that were fine before. Would...