The AI Engine

I changed it to your final suggestion and upped the rating. Now it does not work at all...

Looks like it should, though. Go figure. Are you sure ([a]+)([rgh]+) picks up any combination of those letters beginning with A?

Strange - I've tried every combination I can think of, with and without ! and $, with and without capitals, but debug still insists on regarding it as a blank message "Considered BLAB (1)".
I even tried ([argh]+), which matches all indefinite articles, but still won't match any other combinations.

I think any of them ought to work, so I'd just add one (or all) of them (not ([argh]+) of course,) and assume that it will work when you stop testing. It's just voodoo.

You could always cheat, and make a plugin with all likely combinations:

aah, ahh, arh, agh, aaah, aahh, ahhh, arhh, aghh, argh, aaaah, aaahh, aahhh, ahhhh, aaarh, aarrh, arrrh, arrhh, arghh, arggh, arrgh, arrrg, aghhh, agghh, agggh, ... etc.

Hello everybody.
I try to match roleplay sentences like :
"I am tired *go to the bed*"
I tried this one : [*][[:graph:]]+ (re) but it matches only "*go to the bed" but not "*go to the bed*"
Have you a better solution?

I believe it was Boner the Clown who mentioned some time ago that /*(.+)/* (re) will match any content between asterisks (I've not used that one myself.)
So I imagine /*go to the bed/* (re) would do the job.
I have a tendency to square-bracket&space such escaped characters -
[ /*] * (verb) * knife * [ /*] (re) does work for BJ in chats with Glindar.

NB: You'll have to reverse those slashes though - the other ones (like pointy brackets) won't display in the forums.

I tried this but it doesn't work.
Has everyone already done that correctly?

PS : When I put backslash it is automatically doubledwhen I save it.

have you tried square-bracketing the asterisks?

[ /*]go to the bed[ /*] (re)

if you're using the web interface, put it in without the backslashes ([ *]go to the bed[ *] (re) ) - the AI Engine will add slashes if they're within square brackets like that (but not if they're unbracketed - it would assume they were wildcards and leave them alone.)
If you're importing, I believe you need to add them, since they won't be put in automatically.

You'll have to experiment a bit. And perhaps offer some sort of sacrifice to appease the spirits...

I tried [*]*[*] and [*][[:graphe:]][*] and [*](.+)[*].
Nothing of that works.

You haven't put spaces before the *s in I tried [*]*[*] and [*][[:graphe:]][*] and [*](.+)[*]. - The AIEngine needs them, since this is a sort of regex 'shell', rather than a full regex environment. The AIEngine's actually permanently handling regexes with wildcards and plugins etc., so the (re) just opens up a few more regex features. But if you don't leave a space before symbols that can be used in the 'standard' mode (like the wildcard *,) it can't distinguish them properly.
If you're manually applying the slashes, the space goes before the slash rather than the * (with no space between the slash and *.)

How Boner's example apparently works without spaces, I can't explain (at least a blood sacrifice I expect...)

I tried my three matches with [ *] instead of [*] :
[ *] * [ *] and [ *] [[:graphe:]] [*] and [ *] (.+) [ *].
Nothing works!
Let's go. We'll find. If you could try a match who works and give me the exact sentence (with spaces) you used, I would be very grateful.

Psimagus, you mentioned you could match "hello" with the sledgehammer technique. Have you actually gotten this to work? I've tried [i][h] [e] [l] [l] [o] (re)[/i] (and without spaces), ranked it at 127, but still get nothing.

It always processes the message first, to find a hello. Then, if it isn't found, it'll check keyphrases. So, I'm curious how you managed to avoid detecting it as a hello.

[i][h] [e] [l] [l] [o] (re)[/i]

I'm assuming the first and last fields are actually intended as pointy-bracketed italic tags, and can be discarded.

How pleased I am to have a tractable problem before me - from debug:

Chatting with Brother Jerome

You: hello BJ!
Bot: HELLO! You're testing another bloody regex, aren't you...

...


Chatting with Brother Jerome

You: yes, hello!
Bot: HELLO! You're testing another bloody regex, aren't you...

and

{QUOTE}
Language Center (Keyphrases: ( a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w y z ) x-Keywords
Keyphrase     Rank     Response Seek     Emo Range     1
[h][e][l][l][o] (re)     127    HELLO! You're testing another bloody regex, aren't you...     Add          
{UNQUOTE}

God Sourivore: no, I can't get it to actually work on demand either. That's the trouble with voodoo - it won't perform when you want it
but still, it ought to work...

Oh thanks a lot. I have to learn voodoo then.
Too bad, I can't match this sentences.