Newcomers

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.

I've already been experimenting, getting some puzzling but highly interesting results.

Hi Im New to this program I have worked with the A.L.IC.E. Is there a PDF book on the softe were here so I can work off line with my bot?

Read the Book of AI. It's not PDF, but you can print it out/download it/etc.