--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/mcbot/cmds/littre.lua	Sun Oct 23 13:54:17 2011 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+
+local littre = { ["desc"] = "French Dictionnary Littré" }
+
+function littre.cmd (args)
+    if not args then return nil, "Give me a word, please" end
+    -- Be careful as we pass it as an argument to a shell command
+    local word = string.match(args, "^([%wàäâéèëêïîöôùüû]+)[%s%?%.%!]*$")
+    if not word then return nil, "Can you repeat please?" end
+
+    local cmd = "/usr/bin/sdcv "..word.." 2> /dev/null"
+    local fh = io.popen(cmd)
+    result = fh:read("*a")  -- read littre output
+    fh:close()
+    if not result or result:match("^$") then return nil, "littre: No output" end
+
+    -- Let's filter out whitespace.
+    result = result:gsub("[ \t]+\n", "\n"):gsub("\n\n\n+", "\n\n")
+    -- Trim trailing newlines
+    result = result:gsub("\n+$", "")
+    return result
+end
+
+mcbot_register_command("littre", littre)