From: Michael Malone <michael.malone@...>
Date: 2009-04-09T13:13:13+09:00
Subject: Re: A hopefully simple question

Chuft Captain wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I downloaded an irc bot written in Ruby. I haven't programmed in many
> years but couldn't resist the urge to tinker with the code so I peeked
> inside.
>
> Basically I am trying to add additional string recognition statements to
> this bot, so it says things in response to things people say in the
> channel.
>
> Is there a simple way to accomplish this task by replacing the ==
> comparison operator with something else that searches a string variable
> for a substring?
>
> Thanks
>   
/Everybody stand back/
I know regular expressions

if msg.text =~ %r{lol}i
    reply(msg, " LOLOLOLOL")

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