I need help to send a tell to someone swearing

Posted by CordovaRules on Sun 25 Jun 2006 04:42 PM — 3 posts, 12,222 views.

CordovaRules Sun 25 Jun 2006 04:42 PM #0

How do I make a trigger to automatically catch a swear word in a global channel (in this case holler)

example -

Drunkenone hollers, 'oh f*ck off'

How can I make it so I can send him a tell, then automatically ignore him?

tell drunkenone You need to quit swearing before you are muted
ignore drunkenone

can someone please help me?

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Mon 26 Jun 2006 02:00 AM #1

This trigger should do it.


<triggers>
  <trigger
   custom_colour="7"
   enabled="y"
   match="^([A-Za-z]+) hollers\, \'.*\b(aaaa|bbbb|cccc)+\b.*\'$"
   regexp="y"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>tell %1 You need to quit swearing before you are muted
ignore %1</send>
  </trigger>
</triggers>

The 4-letter swearwords you want to match on are (in this example) "aaaa", "bbbb" and "cccc". You can add more by putting them there with | between each one.

You could get slightly fancier and put the swearwords into a variable, rather than inside the trigger itself.

I have used \b at each end of the swearword list so it has to match on the complete word. You may want to remove those, so it will catch a swearword inside a longer word.

For example, if the swearword is "bonk" then it will match on "bonk" but not "bonker" or "bonked". If you remove the 2 \b in the regular expression it will also match those.

David Haley USA Mon 26 Jun 2006 04:32 AM #2

On the other hand, it is important to get this kind of thing right, and you're better off recognizing on word boundaries. For a simple example, if you consider the 3-letter word for 'rear', you would trigger on "assassinate", "assassin", etc. Probably not what you wanted.