infobot


infobot

(chat)A bot that serves as a common database of information(often noteworthy URLs) for users on a chat system.Infobots often have a simple chatbot interface, respondingto key-phrases, as well as to direct queries.

Here, in a real conversation, the bot Purl's first response istriggered by the phrase "just tell me", and its secondresponse is triggered by being directly asked "perlfunc?":

can someone tell me what: $num9 =substr($number,9,1); means

eesh -- man perlfunc, look at "substr".

just tell me

Didn't your momma ever tell you, "Golook it up in the dictionary"?!

eesh -- no. that's all we'll tellyou. read the documentation.

eesh -- if you haven't man pages orperldoc, you can read them on the 'net.

purl, perlfunc?

well, perlfunc is Perl builtinfunctions, at man perlfunc orhttp://perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfunc.html

http://cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/infobot.html/.