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How do I use onChatted to check for multiple messages for the same function?

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chrono2 189

8 years ago

I'm writing a very rudimentary pseudo-AI script which in essence is used for roleplay purposes only. It's designed to detect a series of sentences and respond accordingly.

Let's say that I want to turn it into Jarvis from Iron Man, and I want it to activate a suit morph or something whenever it detects that I say the words: "Jarvis" and "Suit" in any order or context, or "Jarvis" and "Armour" in any order or context.

How would I code that event?

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Answered by

patrline5599 150

8 years ago

Edited 8 years ago

This is a script that looks for keywords in phrases. If your phrase has ALL of the keywords in it,

for exampleJarvis + Armour or even Jarvis + heal,

it will run the function for the corresponding phrases. The functions for each phrase are inside the table phrases

This should be pretty straightforward but pls let me know if you have any questions - my code can be confusing

01match = nil
02 
03phrases = {
04    ["Amour"] = {
05        words = {"Jarvis" , "Armour"},
06        func = function( p ) -- functions go HERE
07            print(p.Name .. " activated armor function")    
08        end
09    },
10    ["Health"] = {
11        words = {"Jarvis","Heal"},
12 
13        func = function( p ) -- functions go HERE
14            print(p.Name .. " activated health function")   
15        end
16 
17    }
18}
19 
20 
21function onChatted(msg, recipient, speaker) 
22 
23    print("chatted")
24    local source = speaker
25    msg = string.lower(msg) 
26 
27    match = nil
28 
29    for i,v in pairs(phrases) do
30        if match~=nil then break end
31        print("no match, scanning")
32 
33        local allFound = true
34        for u,c in pairs(v.words) do
35            if not msg:match(string.lower(c)) then
36                allFound = false
37            end
38        end
39        if allFound and match == nil then
40            match = v
41            print("match = " .. tostring(v))
42        end
43    end
44 
45    if match then
46        print("match found, running function")
47        match.func(source)
48        match = nil
49    end
50 
51end
52 
53function onPlayerEntered(newPlayer) 
54newPlayer.Chatted:connect(function(msg, recipient) onChatted(msg, recipient, newPlayer) end) 
55end
56 
57game.Players.ChildAdded:connect(onPlayerEntered) 
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That works perfectly! Exactly what I needed. I can learn a lot from this. chrono2 189 — 8y

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