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FTL25 · Voice Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 17

I have the following line of XML I'm reading from:

<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:44:46 PST</pubDate>

In the code I use:

regexp {<pubDate>(.*)</pubDate>} $body - date

to get it, and...

puthelp "PRIVMSG $channel :HeadLine: $served"

to output it.

As output, I expect to get:

[7:25pm]«@ BOTNICK» HeadLine: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:44:46 PST

instead, I get...

[7:25pm]«@ BOTNICK» HeadLine: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:44:46 PST</pubDate>

How do I get rid of that </pubDate> ???

FTL25 · Voice Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 17

Maybe I should have been more clear...

I'm trying to write my own rss news feed bot, from this site.

What I want to do is have the bot output

The Title
The Date
The Description
The Link

Of the most recent news feed. It looks like that will always be:

The 3rd "<title>" on that page for the Title of the article.

The 1st "<pubDate>" on that page for the article Date.

The 2nd "<description>" on that page for the article Description.

The 3rd "<link>" on that page, for the Link to the article.

This is how I was trying to get my info for the bot to pull. So far I could only get the "<pubDate>" one to work, because its always the 1st "<pubDate>" on the page lol... I havent figured out how to do the others yet. I guess I'll have to use a loop to bring it to the correct trigger on the page. I'll figure that out later Wink

For now I just want to figure out how to get rid of that "</pubDate>" at the end of my output!

Here's the code I'm using:

demond · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:10 pm Post subject:

have a look at rssnews.tcl source

among other things, it does exactly what you need to do - parse XML and extract tag contents
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FTL25 · Voice Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 17

Thanks demond. I've look at it more than once. Starting to understand it more as I learn more Smile

I've replaced

FTL25 · Voice Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 17

demond, what part of your rssnews code gets you to the right part of the XLM code? because of all the repeated patterns, you cant just use the first <title> for example... you got to make sure you're at the right spot to get the text you want. This is the part I still cant figure out!

demond · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:12 pm Post subject:

RSS feeds have standard XML structure, for example <title> tags are enclosed by <item> tags
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FTL25 · Voice Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 17

Okay, this is the part of the code I'm looking at from the URL I'm getting the news from:

demond · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:11 am Post subject:

if you can't grasp rssnews.tcl code - pretty streamlined use of Tcl and regexps which does exactly what you want - you probably need to study Tcl and regexps in greater details
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FTL25 · Voice Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 17

Okay... I've looked around and havent found too much on regexp.

From the "Enhancing Your Eggdrop" Page...

demond · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:17 am Post subject:

in these days when more & more people seem to be too lazy to help themselves, it's refreshing to see a person like yourself with a genuine desire to learn and code Smile

the aforementioned beginner's guides will help you write the most basic scripts only and not much more than that; if you are serious about scripting, you need to be a decent programmer in the first place, i.e. to understand data structures & algorithms, memory management, operating system's facilities, networking and how computers operate in general (needless to say, you ought to be proficient in at least one real programming language, preferably C)

once you have the programming basics, you should buy a Tcl book and/or explore and study in great detail Tcl Developer Site and The Tcler's Wiki; these sites feature tons of learning resources for those who are eager to become serious scripters

of course, to be able to produce quality & powerful eggdrop scripts, you must also know tcl-commands.doc inside & out, even by heart Smile

better yet, you should dig into eggdrop's C source code and grasp its internals (prerequisite of which is knowing and understanding the IRC protocol as defined in RFC1459 and other technical documents)

I know that's not an easy path, and the learning curve could be steep & long; but if you are really serious, this is the way
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FTL25 · Voice Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 17

You're right, its not the easiest path, but its what I like to do!

I'm a major right now in computer science. Only took the COBOL and advanced COBOL courses so far, but C++ is coming up either this Spring or next Fall semester, and definitely VB this Spring. I tried the SAMs teach yourself C++ a couple years back, but lost interest Sad

I'm more of a visual learner and its a lot easier when someone is actually teaching it to me and there to show me some things. After learning some basics of TCL though, I realize how much COBOL sucks!!! haha

But anyways, thanks for those links... The Tcler's Wiki looks especially cool. Back to reading...

Smile