refactor: share delimited channel entry parsing

extensions/irc/src/accounts.test.ts

@@ -81,6 +81,32 @@ describe("resolveDefaultIrcAccountId", () => {
 });
 
 describe("resolveIrcAccount", () => {
+  it("parses delimited IRC_CHANNELS env values for the default account", () => {
+    const previousChannels = process.env.IRC_CHANNELS;
+    process.env.IRC_CHANNELS = "alpha, beta\ngamma; delta";
+
+    try {
+      const account = resolveIrcAccount({
+        cfg: asConfig({
+          channels: {
+            irc: {
+              host: "irc.example.com",
+              nick: "claw",
+            },
+          },
+        }),
+      });
+
+      expect(account.config.channels).toEqual(["alpha", "beta", "gamma", "delta"]);
+    } finally {
+      if (previousChannels === undefined) {
+        delete process.env.IRC_CHANNELS;
+      } else {
+        process.env.IRC_CHANNELS = previousChannels;
+      }
+    }
+  });
+
   it.runIf(process.platform !== "win32")("rejects symlinked password files", () => {
     const dir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "openclaw-irc-account-"));
     const passwordFile = path.join(dir, "password.txt");

extensions/irc/src/accounts.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { tryReadSecretFileSync } from "openclaw/plugin-sdk/core";
 import {
   createAccountListHelpers,
   normalizeResolvedSecretInputString,
+  parseOptionalDelimitedEntries,
 } from "openclaw/plugin-sdk/irc";
 import type { CoreConfig, IrcAccountConfig, IrcNickServConfig } from "./types.js";
 
@@ -42,17 +43,6 @@ function parseIntEnv(value?: string): number | undefined {
   return parsed;
 }
 
-function parseListEnv(value?: string): string[] | undefined {
-  if (!value?.trim()) {
-    return undefined;
-  }
-  const parsed = value
-    .split(/[\n,;]+/g)
-    .map((entry) => entry.trim())
-    .filter(Boolean);
-  return parsed.length > 0 ? parsed : undefined;
-}
-
 const { listAccountIds: listIrcAccountIds, resolveDefaultAccountId: resolveDefaultIrcAccountId } =
   createAccountListHelpers("irc", { normalizeAccountId });
 export { listIrcAccountIds, resolveDefaultIrcAccountId };
@@ -174,7 +164,9 @@ export function resolveIrcAccount(params: {
       accountId === DEFAULT_ACCOUNT_ID ? parseIntEnv(process.env.IRC_PORT) : undefined;
     const port = merged.port ?? envPort ?? (tls ? 6697 : 6667);
     const envChannels =
-      accountId === DEFAULT_ACCOUNT_ID ? parseListEnv(process.env.IRC_CHANNELS) : undefined;
+      accountId === DEFAULT_ACCOUNT_ID
+        ? parseOptionalDelimitedEntries(process.env.IRC_CHANNELS)
+        : undefined;
 
     const host = (
       merged.host?.trim() ||