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Any help for this amateur scripter will be much appreciated... :)

Kind of for practice, I'm testing a simple script where certain words in a message are automatically replaced by other words. (You know, just like the Quick Text function in Messenger Plus!)

So I got the replacing function down, but I can't seem to figure out, with my limited intelligence, how to make it so that it replaces whole words only.

so for example-
code:
function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage(ChatWnd, Message)
{
if (Message.search("Whatever") !== -1)
return Message.replace("Whatever","Test")
}

so now how do I make it so that the script only replaces "Whatever" with "Test" if "Whatever" is a whole word. Like, so "Whateverasfkl" wouldn't become "Testasfkl"? I've thought that perhaps it's using the split() string (Message.split(" "), but for all I'm worth I can't figure it out. :-/

This post was edited on 02-21-2007 at 12:57 AM by garfieldman.
02-21-2007 12:56 AM
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RE: [ScriptingHelp] Match Whole Words Only
Forget using split() and all other things. Study and use the regular expression object... ;)

For starters, download and read the JScript 5.6 Documentation > "Regular Expression Object" and "Regular Expression Syntax"

There are also many threads on these forums which are about regular expressions, including snippets of code which will do what you want.

Search the Scripting forum for ".replace("...
eg:
* CookieRevised's reply to how do i replace this text?
* CookieRevised's reply to [Question] Isn't string.replace supposed to replace all occurences ?

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O.P. RE: [ScriptingHelp] Match Whole Words Only
wow, I overcomplicated things... :P

Thanks for the help, and the quick reply. :)
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