#----LENGTH COMMAND---- if($answer =~ m/!length/i) { if($answer =~ m/^\:(.*?)\!(.*?)\@(.*?) PRIVMSG (.*?) :(.*?)$/) { $xnick = $1; $xident = $2; $xhost = $3; $xchannel = $4; $xtext = $5; if($xnick =~ $owner) { @words = split('!length', $xtext); $nospaces = preg_replace('/\s/', '', $words[1]); $lengthof = length($nospaces)-2; #... >_> print $con "privmsg $xchannel :$lengthof\n"; } } }