[Enhancement] Random keyword responses & exclude sender mention messages about phantombot HOT 5 OPEN

The first task of randomly picking an answer can be realized with using (readfilerandom …) and having a text file with all possible answers.

The second one isn't as trivial. But could probably be solved with regexps indeed.

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^((?!@\w+).)*your keyword((?!@\w+).)*$ here is a draft for ignoring messages with mentions. Considerations: 1) it might fail if there are user accounts with any other symbols but a-z, A-Z, _, or -. 2) If you have characters in your keyword that have a meaning in regexps, you need to escape them.

I recommend regex101.com for developing, analyzing, and testing of regexps.

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The first task of randomly picking an answer can be realized with using (readfilerandom …) and having a text file with all possible answers.

It'd be nice if there were an easy way for mods to set up commands like this, without access to the bot's filesystem.

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I agree. I see two ways:

• Try to work around with a command using (writefile …)
• In the long run it would be nice to have a command variable like (eval …) that actually executes javascript. I've talked about this with some people on Discord and I'm not sure a PR like that would be accepted. Besides the fact that it could be a pain to implement without opening a bunch of security holes.

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Other possibilities:

• Add a tag handler to pick from a set of strings, and include all the options as part of the command response:

!addcom !hackername Your hacker name is (pickrandom Trinity|Darkweb|Neo) (pickrandom Bladerunner|Gattaca|Anonymous)

• Add an editable "quip system", with commands to create/delete named sets of quips or add/remove/edit individual quips in a set, and a tag handler to pick quips from a set:

!addquipset hackerfirst Trinity|Darkweb|Neo
!addquipset hackerlast Bladerunner|Gattaca
!addquip hackerlast Anonymous

!addcom !hackername Your hacker name is (randomquip hackerfirst) (randomquip hackerlast).

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