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Originally posted by cooldude_i06
They are called regular expressions. Here is more info:
http://authors.aspalliance.com/wsk/aboutregularexpression.asp

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Oh, very informative . There are quite a few of them, and that /r is EXACTLY what I needed . I was wondering how to get a script to notice nothing after a character (hitting enter ). Thank you .

there seems to be quite some discussion and insight into this, i seem to have started quite a debate here. these all sound like great ideas cant wait to seem them in action.

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Originally posted by Silentdragon
Hmm wouldn't this be better?

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/\bbr\b/mgi

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Doesn't need to check if its at the begining or not or space character as it looks for word boundries, And works with punctuation. Plus it doesn't chop out the space.

Also the writer should have did a spell check. Regards is not spelled reguards.

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Word boundaries don't always work that great, that's why I always use (^|\s+) and ($|\s+).

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Originally posted by Keikonium
Most people have semi good grammar, so this should be a nice little fix. When you type, you usually use spaces. Ex:

Bob says:
Hey John, I g2g, hospital time...
---> Hey John, I got to go, hospital time...

John says:
Okay, br buddy
---> Okay, best reguards buddy

So, a simple fix would be instead of:

sMessage = sMessage.replace(/br/gi,"best reguards");
make it
sMessage = sMessage.replace(/ br /gi," best reguards ");

. Notice the space. This wont catch "br" at the end of a sentance however. But if you put an extra space at the end, it'll catch it .

This is how I wrote my personal script anyway.

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i modified the script on my machine to have a space of br in the syntax as you suggested so it dont bring up breakfast as best regardseakfast the only think you get then is that even if you put a space after the br when you do want to say best regards the capital letter script messes up the word so it prevents the translation so i have to not use capital letter script at present.