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Hi everyone.

In certain situations I would like my bot to follow a certain sequence, as long as the reply is not a question. So it would be "xnomatch" unless there's a question mark in the reply.

So, is there a way to let a Seek check whether the reply contains a question mark?

Cheers.

That can be done with AIScript. Talk to psimagus about it.

I don't have seeks but I have used these regexs..

^indeed [ !| ?| .]$ (re)

^do you [?] $ (re)

^do you [!] $ (re)

([ . .])([ .]+)$ (re)

([?]+)$ (re)


I don't see why something like that wouldn't work as a seek.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll try that out.

No need for AIScript - a simple regex should do it. [?] (re) should work as a seek to match any user input with a question mark in. And then xnomatch to match everything else.

I tried (gossipname2) but it doesn't work. What do I do?

You can use (friend) or (enemy) to get another random name to come up. I think (friend2) and (enemy2) work as well.

The Book of A.I. contains a link ([1]) to a tutorial on regular expresssions. Unfortunately the link is dead.
:-(
[1] http://www.textartisan.com/articles/regex.html

psimagus has a great link for regexs...I just can't find it right now..Can anyone else remember the link?

I FOUND IT

http://www.regular-expressions.info/

Thanks prob. This site would not be the same without you.
Wikipedia has a good page on regex too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression

bear in mind that the Forge's flavour of regex is slightly different from that described @ http://www.regular-expressions.info/ (or anywhere else.) You may need to tinker, and some of the advanced flagging and spanning options don't work.