The AI Engine

Okay, 3 posts in a row. Sorry. I figured out the last one for myself -- you can click on the left parenthesis if anybody else is having this problem. I'm wondering why I've got the alphabet broken up into all 26 letters, when some of them are empty, but who cares?

If you have only one response per keyphrase, or a lot of seeks your bot development goes down. The alphabet breaks up when your bot gets to a certain size. It does make the loading quicker..When I am adding keyphrases I go to z because it's my lightest letter and things operate much faster.

I tend to go to 'q' for the same reason.

Good idea -- thanks

That 'z','q' notion is a good one. Now I'm trying to inch my way into the harder stuff. I have it on good authority that the keyphrase

I was ([abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]+)ing (re)

would, if you'd said

"I was walking,"

say "Really, you walked?"

with the response coded as "Really, you (key1)ed?" However, I'm getting "Really, you ed?" What obvious point am I now missing? Every time I learn something new, I learn 23 things that I need to know.

Thanks for any help.

P.S. Young Hamlet is going down. Sticking to a script, at this stage of my coding level, was painting me into a corner. Enter Astrolabe, who will have his own life and talk like some of us 21st-century people do.

I don't know what to say..I have a similar regex
what do ([abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]+)ists believe (re)
I swore it used to work...but this is what I got tonight.
prob123
what do abolitionists believe

Bildgesmythe
I have very little information on that! Tell me about ists?

Thanks. The head-banging can cease.

It's funny the numerical ones are working
i will have ([1234567890,.]+) (re)

prob123: I will have 5
Bildgesmythe: Now, is 5 going to be enough?

i think you both forgot the ,. in your regex, not sure though, i hardly use these.

LarsB -- Thanks. I put them in to try it, though, and I'm getting the same response.

The Clerk - perhaps you could change
I was ([abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]+)ing (re)
to
I was ([abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz,.]+ing) (re)
That should work.

Adding the ",." stops my similar keyphrase from even picking up, and the AIEngine consistently deletes the "." (entries should not contain any punctuation, etc.)

I think this is just a bug of the AIEngine not picking up the regular expression as a (key).