I am creating an IRC bot using Go as a first project to get to grips with the language. One of the bot functions is to grab data from the TVmaze API and display in the channel.
I have imported an env package which allows the bot admin to define how the output is displayed.
For example SHOWSTRING="#showname# - #status# – #network.name#"
I am trying to add functionality to it so that the admin can use IRC formatting functionality which is accessed with \u0002 this is bold \u0002
for example.
I have a function which generates the string that is being returned and displayed in the channel.
func generateString(show Show) string {
str := os.Getenv("SHOWSTRING")
r := strings.NewReplacer(
"#ID#", string(show.ID),
"#showname#", show.Name,
"#status#", show.Status,
"#network.name#", show.Network.Name,
)
result := r.Replace(str)
return result
}
From what i have read i think that i need to use the rune
datatype instead of string and then converting the runes into a string before being output.
I am using the https://github.com/thoj/go-irceven package for interacting with IRC.
Although i think that using rune
is the correct way to go, i have tried a few things that have confused me.
If i add \u0002
to the SHOWSTRING from the env, it returns \u0002House\u0002 - Ended - Fox
. I am doing this by con.Privmsg(roomName, tvmaze.ShowLookup('house'))
However if i try con.Privmsg(roomName, "\u0002This should be bold\u0002")
it outputs bold text.
What is the best option here? If it is converting the string into runes and then back to a string, how do i go about doing that?