Perl and IRC: Periodically send a message to a channel

Question

I'm making a Perl IRC bot and I want to send a message periodically to a channel. I'm using POE::Component::IRC , but as far as I can see, there is no method or event handling this.

Is there a way to accomplish this?

Answer 1

You can use POE::Kernel's delay routine to act like a one-time timer calling itself over and over.

Basically, you have an event handler named my_event . Within my_event , you send the PRIVMSG to the channel. You then call this same event handler my_event using the delay routine inherited through POE.

See: POE: Cookbook - Recurring Alarms