Responding to IRC messages
Another way to interact with IRC in Haskell is by using the Network.SimpleIRC package. This package encapsulates much of the low-level networking and also provides useful IRC interfaces.
In this recipe, we will respond to messages in a channel. If any user types in the trigger phrase, in our case "host?", then we will reply to that user with their host address.
Getting ready
Install the Network.SimpleIRC package:
$ cabal install simpleirc
To test out the IRC bot, it is helpful to install an IRC client. A decent IRC client is Hexchat, which can be downloaded from http://hexchat.github.io. For a terminal-based IRC client, Irssi is one of the best: http://www.irssi.org.
How to do it…
Create a new file, which we call Main.hs ...
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