Sockets / IRC

[mindsport]

Was not too sure of how to word my question to search it on google but I wrote a little irc client to connect to irc and join a channel and while its in the channel I want it to read a website and post new updates to the channel but the while loop for the socket only is active when the server is sending information to it.. how can I have just a while loop for processing the webpage at a certain time and also one to read the incoming data from the server? Thanks!

[Anonymous Monk]

You could use a select loop, which is how POE work under the covers (also, see POE::Component::IRC and POE::Component::Client::UserAgent).

[mindsport]

could you help me with an example of the select one? I wanted to not use the whole POE package with this small project

[rowdog]

If you really want to do it yourself, I'd recommend using IO::Select, which even has a example in the documentation. Keep in mind that you'll need to implement the relevant RFCS.

The easy way out is to use POE or AnyEvent::IRC::Client.

[Proclus]

You should really try POE as suggested. It is very easy to install and will not give you much overhead. Instead, it will give your code consistency and simplicity in addition to providing a nonblocking environment.