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erm sorry i got to thinking and i seemed to forget that ? couldnt be in keywords. so then i slapped myself silly...Anyhow the answer is still regular expressions but instead try "^what? (re)" i tested this on my bot that has a few "what...." question keywords and it seems to work. This basicly searches for the word "what" at the start of a sentence, But does not allow more then 1 other t beyond the what...so basicly it only allows "what" or "whatt". If i understand it right that is. Hope i managed to help this time.

to make "what would you like" pull up separate responses for just "what" alone, you give "what" a really low rank, and make a new keyphrase for "what would you like".

I think there is also a reg-exp character that means "the end of the sentence" -- which you could put after "what," to frame it (and the punctuation) as the only things in the keyphrase. Regular expressions are definitely your answer, Boner, but I don't know enough about them yet to give you concrete advice.

If there is something to put in a reg expression that signifies nothing after the given words, I sure do need it! Can you put the ^ sign at the end, too?

The dollar sign ($) should work as end of expression marker.

Joe Repka: Excellllent...thanks so much.

^is start and as joe pointed out $ is end...there are a bunch of other little things you can do with reg expressions. Sorry about stumbling with the answer boner but it was late and i was getting frustrated with my own bot.

Question: ok, I have the keyphrase "how old are you" programmed for my bot. When someone asked him "I was wondering, how old are you?" he wouldn't answer. I didn't program the keyphrase as a regular expression, and I don't understand what's wrong. Someone help me!!!

How much importance did you give the phrase "how old are you?" If everything else is equal, I'm pretty sure the bot will look at the first part of the sentence as the most important. You'd have to have "how old are you" weighted enough for the bot to look at that part first.

You guys rock. The keyphrase "^what$ (re)" seems to do the trick.

I imagine it should work for "really?," "whatever," and some of the other usual one word responses, but not expressions like "ok" or "huh?"

Definitely a good start.

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I think if you check debug, the phrase "I was wondering, how old are you?" is getting switched to "I was wondering, how old YOU ARE?" If I recall correctly, this was a recent upgrade to actually catch the reverse of your situation since the phrase "I was wondering" normally changes a question phrase to a statement when we say it. I recommend either chalking this one up to an odd phrasing by the guest or using a keyword phrase like "how old * you" or adding "how old you are" to the list.