Perl Net :: Jabber :: Bot new line

Question

I use the Net::Jabber::Bot module in my Perl script and it works correctly, but one problem is that when I want to send a message, all new lines are deleted! Two questions:

• How can we have new lines in our posts? Should we disable chomp somewhere?
• What happens to newlines in Jabber / XMPP?

Answer 1

This is a known issue, someone has already submitted a fix for this: http://code.google.com/p/perl-net-jabber-bot/issues/detail?id=24

You cannot send \ n directly, but perhaps you can send a new line encoded with xmpp / jabber if this code does not contain non-printable characters.

In this section:

 sub _send_individual_message { ... # Strip out anything that not a printable character # Now with unicode support? $message_chunk =~ s/[^[:print:]]+/./xmsg;