IRC bot in Lua using luasocket for http://tpt.io/@jenn4

jenn4bot.lua

require "socket"
--[[ Configuration ]]--
__DEBUG = true -- USE THIS!
  serv = "chat.eu.freenode.net"
  nick = "jenn4|luabot"
  user = nick
  mode = "0"
  realname = "jenn4|luabot"
  channels = "#jenn4,#powder-bots" -- You can stack channels like #ch1,#ch2 NO SPACES!
  prefix = "!!" -- Careful to make sure both of those are replaced
--[[ /Configuration ]]--
function sendInitialConfig()
  print ("-- Sending configuration... --")
  s:send("NICK " .. nick .. "\r\n") -- NICK jenn4|bot
  s:send("USER " .. user .. " " .. mode .. " * " .. " :" .. "LuaBot" .. "\r\n") -- USER jenn4|bot 8 * :LuaBot
  s:send("JOIN " .. channels .. "\r\n")
end
function init()
  print ("-- jenn4's bot --")
  print("-- Initializing... --")
  s = socket.tcp()
  s:connect(serv, 6667)
  socket.sleep(7) -- Wait for a bit for it to get your commands
  sendInitialConfig()
  startListen()
end
function startListen()
  while true do
      local st, status, partial = s:receive("*l") 
      -- *l listens to lines and removes \n
      if __DEBUG then print("st: " .. st .."; partial: ".. partial)  end
      if status == "closed" then 
        print ("!! Status is closed, I think we lost connection")
        break 
      end
      handleRawIRC(partial)
  end
  print ("!! Listening loop stopped")
  os.exit(0)
end
function handleRawIRC(rawstring)
  -- Rawstring = ":boxmein!~boxmein@unaffiliated/boxmein PRIVMSG #powder-bots :Just using this to get raw mes..."
  local rawarr = explode(rawstring, " ")
  local rawdata = {}
  -- I'm pretty sure this block below will make your life much much easier.
  rawdata.hostmask = table.remove(rawarr, 1) -- :nickname!~realname@host.com
  rawdata.hostmask = string.sub(rawdata.hostmask, 2) -- Remove the : 
  rawdata.sender = rawdata.hostmask:match "^[^!]*" -- Extracts nickname from the hostmask above
  rawdata.irccommand = table.remove(rawarr, 1) -- Shift the first element off, the IRC command "PRIVMSG", "JOIN"
  rawdata.channel = table.remove(rawarr, 1) -- can be either #channel OR your nickname when private messaging!
  rawdata.message = string.sub(implode(rawarr, " "), 2) -- Removes the : at the front
  rawdata.args = explode(rawdata.message, " ") -- Contains each word separate, useful in IRC commands

  if __DEBUG then
    print ("<< " .. rawstring)
    print (".hostmask = " .. rawdata.hostmask)
    print (".irccommand = " .. rawdata.irccommand)
    print (".sender = " .. rawdata.sender)
    print (".message = " .. rawdata.message)
  end 
  -- Some default IRC handlers
  if rawdata.irccommand == "PING" then
    sendRawIRC("PONG :"..rawstring:match"^PING :(.*)")
  elseif rawdata.irccommand == "PRIVMSG" then
    --TODO: It's a channel message! This means I can parse this!

  end

end

-- [[ Utility functions go below ]] --
function sendCTCP(channel, data) -- Sends a CTCP request to user or channel, saying data.
  sendRawIRC("PRIVMSG " ..channel.." :\x01"..data.."\x01")
end
function joinChan(channel) -- Joins the specified channel
  sendRawIRC("JOIN "..channel)
end
function respondTo(rawdata, message)
end
function sendRawIRC(data) -- The most important utility, IRC data! Also good to log in here
  if __DEBUG then print (">> " .. data) end -- PUT THESE EVERYWHERE
  s:send(data .. "\r\n")
end

-- [[ Functions that should not have to be implemented ]] --
function implode(list, delimiter) -- = Array => String.
  -- Delimiter appends the character to every element
  local len = #list
  if len == 0 then
    return ""
  end
  local string = list[1]
  for i = 2, len do
    string = string .. delimiter .. list[i]
  end
  return string
end

function explode(text, delimiter)
  local list = {}; local pos = 1
  if string.find("", delimiter, 1) then
    -- We'll look at error handling later!
    error("delimiter matches empty string!")
  end
  while 1 do
    local first, last = string.find(text, delimiter, pos)
    print (first, last)
    if first then
      table.insert(list, string.sub(text, pos, first-1))
      pos = last+1
    else
      table.insert(list, string.sub(text, pos))
      break
    end
  end
  return list
end

-- [[ Crude error handling off StackOverflow ]] --
_HandlingError = 0
function errors(errobj)
    if( _HandlingError == 0 ) then
        _HandlingError = 1
        local errStr = tostring(errobj) or ""
        if( type(errobj)=='table' ) then
          errStr = "Table: {" .. table.concat(errobj, ',') .. "}"
        end
        print("Error: \"" .. errStr .. "\"")
        --for k,v in pairs(_G) do print("GLOBAL:" , k,v) end
        if( type(errobj)=='thread' ) then
            print(debug.traceback(errobj))
        else
            print(debug.traceback('',2))
        end
        _HandlingError = 0
    end
    return false
end

xpcall(init(), errors)