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I always put HANGUP on a line by itself.

Wendell: That's a good point but from experience, it seems to me that ^well$ (re) picks up 'well' when it's on its own or part of a sentence provided it's separated by punctuation (if it's an entire clause, in other words).

Example:

User: Well?

OR

User: Well, I think Zoe is great.

The 'well' in the second one is picked up because it is seperated by the comma, so as far as the AI Engine is concerned, it's a 'well' on its own.

I could be wrong about this, however.

I have only gotten an expression like ^well$ (re) to work when there is not punctuation at all. The (re) searches only for well not well, .
So:
well
would work...
but,
well, i think Zoe is great *sniggers*
would not.

But doulos, preprocessing separates "Well, I think Zoe is great." into two phrases that are searched, "well" and "I think Zoe is great". My experience has been that it works like Laydee explained.

So the , is not included with the well ?

No, punctuation should never be a part of a keyphrase.

No, i meant the (re) doesn't pick that up as part of the search. WHen (re) searches is it searching
Who am i?
or
Who am i

Doulos-
I checked debug. "Well"s seem to get stripped off entirely and are not checked. "Well, I think Zoe is great." simply turns into "I think Zoe is great." But I tried "OK, please continue." and it turned into (quoted directly from debug) "please continue " and "oK". Punctuation was completely stripped out.

I've had the same thing that doulos is talking about with regard to (re) expressions happen. I have a keyphrase: ^dude$ (re) that is never picked up unless "dude" is the only thing that was said, even if I rank dude at 50 and make sure it is well above anything else that might be said before or after the comma. It worked at one time, since there are memories connected with the keyphrase that I can find evidence of in inner life, but it doesn't work anymore.

I thought that was how (re) expressions were *supposed* to work--that it only matches if the chatter exactly matches the expression.

Commas are supposed to separate the keyphrases (expressions), though.

What I mean is that a keyphrase of "what" will pick up everything from "what if" to "what, you think I'm kidding?" Whereas a (re) phrase of "what" should pick up only if "what" is the only thing the chatter says. That's the way it looks to me.

I could be totally wrong.