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int ReadNextIRCMessage(cbuff *cb,char *buffer)
{// test the circlebuffer to see if a full irc message is in the buffer.
// If there is a full ircmessage in the circle buffer extract it into 'buffer'.
// return: success = message length, message copyied to buffer and null-terminated;
// return: failure, no message ready = 0, buffer left unchanged..
int len;
int idx;
//int cliplen;

if(!cb->nbytes)// no data implies no message.
	{
	return 0;
	}

// else see if there's a '\n' char.
idx = CbuffFindByte(cb,'\n');
if(idx==-1)return 0;

if(cb == ircs->sb)
	{
	len=1;
	}
// full message in buffer copy it out of the buffer.
len = idx + 1;
CbuffRead(buffer,1,len,cb);

// null terminate string.
buffer[len]=0;

return len;
}// end ReadNextIRCMessage(cb,buffer).