- modules: age of a few files were set to time(); use stat. Fixed.

[infobot.git] / src / IRC / Irc.pl

diff --git a/src/IRC/Irc.pl b/src/IRC/Irc.pl
index e8a3a9243534cac1ebd6f15533103f43df038286..6b35bcae2247e4eba49782fe053f7f17758e2525 100644 (file)
--- a/src/IRC/Irc.pl
+++ b/src/IRC/Irc.pl
@@ -717,14 +717,20 @@ sub IsNickInAnyChan {
 
 # Usage: &validChan($chan);
 sub validChan {
+    # todo: use $c instead?
     my ($chan) = @_;
 
+    if (!defined $chan or $chan =~ /^\s*$/) {
+       return 0;
+    }
+
     if (lc $chan ne $chan) {
        &WARN("validChan: lc chan != chan. ($chan); fixing.");
        $chan =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/;
     }
 
-    if (exists $channels{$chan}) {
+    # it's possible that this check creates the hash if empty.
+    if (defined $channels{$chan} or exists $channels{$chan}) {
        if ($chan eq "_default") {
 #          &WARN("validC: chan cannot be _default! returning 0!");
            return 0;