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Original thread: Need help with Regular Expression with MSN bots

I'm trying to get this msn anwering machine to respond to ip addresses.
Is there a way to make it answer to ip addresses?
I tried [0-9]*.[0-9]*.[0-9]*.[0-9]*
But a dot in RegExp means anything. and the above also means any number. I need a way to make that . not in RegExp like in C++ to use the normal backslash. just \\
Any Help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Don't want to create a new thread, so just edit existing one.

/[0-9]{1-3}\.[0-9]{1-3}\.[0-9]{1-3}\.[0-9]{1-3}/
should work :/

Hmm.. It doesn't work. But i edited it to
[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*
and it worked. so a backslash would mean a normal dot.
Thanks for your help.

This one should be more accurate as it limits the numbers to 0-255.  Though I'm a little unsure about the (?: ) part because that is what I would use in JScript to make the stuff in the brackets not get recorded seperately.

code:

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/(?:1?[0-9]?[0-9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5]\.){3}(?:1?[0-9]?[0-9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])/

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EDIT: actually this one also works (for JScript at least as \d means any number)...

code:

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/(?:1?\d?\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5]\.){3}(?:1?\d?\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])/

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Hmm.. I need help. Under the receive section of the MSN bot, I put "can see?" without the " ". but it responds to "can see". Is there a way to make "can see?" as a whole. or is the " " can be used to make it a whole just like search engines?

quote:

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Originally posted by Death4ngel
Hmm.. I need help. Under the receive section of the MSN bot, I put "can see?" without the " ". but it responds to "can see". Is there a way to make "can see?" as a whole. or is the " " can be used to make it a whole just like search engines?

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Well, if you want to let it respond on "can see?", you should escape the "?" character, like this:

code:

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/can\ssee\?/

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The "\s" stands for any whitespace, which can be a space (ascii 32), a newline, a carriage return or a tab character. If you only want your users to be able to use a "regular" space, replace "\s" with " " in the code above.