Yes there are a few different ways to do this. Many of us started out in the same place with text reply scripts.
/help On Text
You can either keep a list and reference it, or just hardcode the responses. I would suggest just to hard code the responses.
on *:text:*nirvana songs*:#:msg # Smells like teen spirit.
This will look for text that has "nirvana songs" in it. This could be, "I like Nirvana songs." Or "Nirvana songs suck!" You will notice the * before and after Nivana songs. This means a wildcard search. Wildcard means anything will match it which is why you can have text around the words Nirvana songs and it matches.
If you had:
on *:text:Nirvana songs:#:msg # Smells like teen spirit.
This would only reply if the person typed "Nirvana songs" since there is no wildcard before or after saying the comparison is true if there is any text before or after. Also spaces around the wildcard is important.
Nirvana * is different than Nirvana*.
Nirvana * won't be true if they type "Nirvanasucks" because there is a space after the word Nirvana in your search.
Once the comparison is deemed TRUE, then it performs the command:
/msg $chan Smells like teen spirit.
This messages the channel the text is seen in.
So that is a basic text response and where I think you should start. But things to consider about text responses is protecting yourself from flooding. What happens when someone types that word over and over very fast? Your script will try to respond to everyone of them which can cause you to flood out for trying to send out too many responses quickly. There are easy ways to handle this where you just count the number of times someone triggers your text event and say if its more than twice to halt, or something like that.
We can get to that if you like, but you should have a basic understanding of the code I showed above first. Ask questions!
Another thing to look at is being able to nest more than one text response in a single text event. Again, you should start with the basic code I showed you above, but ...
/help if then else
on *:text:*:#:{
;the wildcard for the search string means any text will be TRUE
if ($1 = Nirvana) msg # this
elseif ($1-2 = Nirvana Sucks) msg # this
elseif (Nirvana* iswm $1-) msg # this
}$1 is the first group of text before a space. $2 is the second word, etc. $1-2 means words 1 and 2. $1- means words 1 and everything that follows. $2- is the 2nd word and everything that follows.
All operators are documented in the help file, like iswm.
