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Reputation: 23

Checking message length with Discord.js

I am trying to determine the length of a message in a channel. I can't find what to put for the message length, I tried this on a channel that isn't mine, and it didn't seem to work, no error code were thrown, it just doesn't work.

This is my code so far:

const Discord = require('discord.js')
const bot = new Discord.Client()

bot.on('ready', () => {
  console.log("connected");
});

bot.on('message', (message) => {
  if(message.channel.id === '549389103071969869') {
    if(message.length !== '4') {
      message.delete()
    }
  }
});

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5300

Answers (2)

Lioness100
Lioness100

Reputation: 8402

The message parameter is the entire message object. For example, message.author, message.id, etc.

What you are looking for is message.content, the actual text in the message.

Also, make sure the number you're comparing the length property to is a Number, not a String as it is now.

if (message.content.length !== 4) { // 4, not "4"

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Upvotes: 1

Mineko Kayui
Mineko Kayui

Reputation: 761

What you want to do is use message.content.length. message.length will return undefined as .length doesn't work on an object property.

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What you want to use is message.content.length to find the length of message.content.

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As you can see in the first picture, it returned undefined. And then in the second picture, it shows the content of the message, which is what we wanted, and lastly the third one (for eval purposes i used message.channel.messages.cache.get() to get the exact message in the second picture) is the message content's length.

For your code, the answer will be as such:

const Discord = require('discord.js')
const bot = new Discord.Client()

bot.on('ready', () => {
  console.log("connected");
});

bot.on('message', (message) => {
  if(message.channel.id === '549389103071969869') {
    
    // Use `message.content.length`
    if(message.content.length !== 4) {
    // Do mind that '4' is a string, and what you want is the length (a number), so you shouldn't put quotes around it.

      // If the message length isn't 4, then delete it.
      message.delete()
    }
  }
});

For more information, visit the links below:

These are the docs on how I used message.channel.messages.cache.get().

Upvotes: 1

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