making turing find words

[iop]

i want to create a bot that can talk to people. for that i need turning to get input, then find words in that input that will tell it what to do.

how can i make turning look for words in user input?

[Tony]

turing test eh?

after you're done reading the very informative link...

you can separate a sentance into individual words using substrings as in

code:

var text:string := "my name is tony" put text(4..7)

obviously white spaces are flags and you get individual words between them. To find where " " is located, you use index() function

code:

var text : string := "my name is tony" %string working with var firstSpace : int := index (text, " ") %first occurance of " " var tempText : string := text (firstSpace + 1 .. *) %string with first word cut out var wordLength : int := index (tempText, " ") %occurance of second " " put text (firstSpace + 1 .. firstSpace + wordLength) %putting it all together

[iop]

doesnt turing have like a scan command or something that looks over inputed data for whatever its looking for?

[AsianSensation]

m...........yeah, like tony pointed out above, index is the function you would be using, how well it works would depend on your creativity and skill at string manipulations really.

[Tony]

yeah... instead of breaking the string up into individual words, you can search for an occurance of the substring directly.

code:

var text:string := "my name is tony" if index(text,"tony") >0 then put "did somebody say my name?" else put "i only answer to tony" end if

ofcourse it will result true for any occurance of substring, even if its *tony*

a solution would be to add whitespaces to the search " tony " but that doesn't work for the first and last words inputed. So you'd have to be creative. A solution would be to add such whitespaces yourself.

as AsianSensation said : it comes down to your creativity and skill at string manipulations

[DanShadow]

hmm...this is my way of finding a word in a string:

code:

var text:string:="Hello and welcome to bobbys wonder land.." var input:string:="" put "Enter a word to search for: ".. get input var num:int num:=length(input) for i:1..length(text)     if i+num<=length(text) then         if text(i..i+num)=input then             put "Found the word ",input," in the text at (",i,",",i+num,")"         end if     end if end for

I dont have Turing on this computer, but I believe that code should work.
But I guess the 'index' command is better...

[Tony]

hah, you just rewrote the index function and it would still find substrings

code:

var text : string := "tony was here" text := " " + text + " " if index (text, " tony ") > 0 then     put "tony was found" end if

this way tony and blah_tony_blah are different things

[DanShadow]

aww! Lol, I didnt even know of the index function before I created that. Well, I guess thats cool.