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Need help with chat filter system. Can someone help?
Hello, everyone!
I'm currently writing my own chat system, and I'm currently attempting to set up a chat filter. However, this only seems to work if there is one word involved ( that matches the accursed word. )
Any help would be much appreciated!
chatfilter = {}
chatfilter[1] = "badword"
s = "badword."
for w in string.gmatch(s, "%a+") do
if s == chatfilter[1] then
print("This message contained inappropiate content.")
else
print(s)
end
end
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You can use string.find(), if it returns nothing or nil then it can't find a bad word within a string.
Here's an example I've created.
local filteredWords = {"N00B","HATE"}
local plrString = "YOU SUCH A N00B LOLOL I HATE YOU LOLOLOL" --Typical hate speech
for i = 1, #filteredWords do
if string.find(plrString, filteredWords[i]) ~= nil then
print("Bad word located!")
else
print("Innocent words!")
end
end
You can also track how many words were located by just having an integer that increases every time there's a bad word found.
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Just one thing: How do I get it to filter a word no matter the capitalization? TheRings0fSaturn 28 — 6y
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I think you need to use "%a" but i'm not sure how to give match a pattern. tobyjing2005 107 — 6y