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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] string to list?
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Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 16:46:42 +0200
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> :Matt!~matt@hostname.com PRIVMSG #[s.i.s.] :some text
> 
> I want to turn it into
> 
> $nick $host $msgtype $channel $msg

eval `{echo $irctext | awk '{ ... }'}

where the awk spits:

    nick='...'

etc