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In AIML How To Use Wildcard Without Space

In Aiml I'm trying to detect random nonsense words but why is it not working? Here is the code

<category> 
<pattern>* f g h *</pattern> 
<template>What nonsense did you just typed??</template>
</category>

The response is

Human: hdhfghjrur
Robot: pattern did not matched

How do you use wildcards without giving space

Why is fgh not matching?

Solution

  • Wildcards match whole words, not just strings of letters but you can add an entry in your normal substitution file for each nonsense string you want to catch.

    ["fgh", " BadInput "],

    This will convert your sample input of hdhfghjrur to hdh BadInput jrur and then you can create a category to deal with this:

    <category>
    <pattern># BadInput ^</pattern>
    <template>What nonsense did you just type??</template>
</category>