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[whittinghamj]

hi guys.

I been looking thro the forums and the archive but not sure what I would be looking for in the code.

I have a txt file with lets say 15 lines of info on it. I need a script that would open the file add the lines up close the file then report to the channel

<bot>There are 15 records in total

also i am stuck on how to stripcodes c

i have been going around and around in bllod circles for hours

here is what i am working with.

[code]
proc add {nick uhost hand chan text} {
set database [open ${::db} a+]
set timestamp [clock format [clock seconds]]
set section [lindex $text 6]
puts $database "$timestamp $section"
close $database
}
[code]

I know i have to change the line added to the database but not sure how.

Any help would be great.

Cheers

Quest[/code]

[rosc2112]

[whittinghamj]

thank you for the help - worked perfectly and I understand regarding the unixtime. I did some reading up at work today.

I have one other question.

I have the following code to record text from a channel and save it to a file. To record !command 's being used.

[rosc2112]

The question about replacing spaces with dots, was answered in another thread, basically just use string map:

set myvar [string map {" " "."} $input]

As far as find the duration from a time stamp, take a look at the 'duration' command

duration <seconds>
Returns: the number of seconds converted into years, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. 804600 seconds is turned into 1 week 2 days 7 hours 30 minutes.
Module: core

The following assumes you grabbed your previous timestamp already, in a var called '$then'

Get the current timestamp,

set now [unixtime]

then subtract your previous timestamp,

set timesince [expr $now - $then]

and then use duration to check the time difference:

set duration [duration $timesince]

Or, in a one-liner:

set timesince [duration [expr $then - [unixtime]]]