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How to parse parameters to a hubot script

New to hubot/coffeescript and inheriting and existing script.

I googled and found some unhelpful stuff like this: Hubot matching on multiple tokens per line?

What I want to do is be able to parse parameters to my Hubot message. For example:

  startPlaceOrderListener = () ->
    robot.respond /order me (.*)/i, (res) ->

and then follow it with what you want to order.

I can obviously re-invent the wheel and parse res.match[1] myself, but hubot already seems to have some regular expression parsing built in for its own use and I was wondering if there's a way to leverage that for my own nefarious purposes.

Solution

  • It turns out the coffeescript has regular expressions built in. So

    /order me (.*)/i

    is straight coffeescript.

    To match a regular expression you can do:

    /order me (.*)/i.test("Bob")

    Where the i can be left out if you don't want to ignore case.