1 

     2 local excusefile = "/home/mikael/.mcabber/lua/mcbot/bofh_excuses.txt"

     3 

     4 local bofh = { ["desc"] = "Give a BOFH excuse",

     5                ["aliases"] = { "excuse" } }

     6 

     7 function bofh.cmd (args, botdata, cmd)

     8     local r = {}

     9     if cmd:lower() == "excuse" and args and not args:match("[!%?]+") then

    10         return nil

    11     end

    12     for line in io.lines(excusefile) do table.insert(r, line) end

    13     local len = table.getn(r)

    14     if len == 0 then

    15         return nil, "I have no excuse, Sir...  :-("

    16     end

    17     local n = math.random(len)

    18     return "BOFH's excuse: "..r[n]

    19 end

    20 

    21 mcbot_register_command("bofh", bofh)