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Reputation: 18

Is it possible to make the bot respond to a message that has one of the elements in an Array

I am trying to make my Bot I am currently developing able to respond to a message, Which i really did it.

However I want the bot to respond to one of the elements/strings in an Array, so i don't have to repeatedly write (message.includes('example')) || (message.includes('example2')). I tried doing this with an if statement as that is the only way i know how to. :

client.on('message', message =>{

    if (message.author.bot) return;

    const fixgreet = message.content.slice();
    const greetings = fixgreet.toLowerCase();
    const gnvars = fs.readFileSync('./commands/urls/gn.txt').toString('utf-8');
    const gnraw = gnvars.split('\n');

    if (greetings.includes(gnraw)) {
        client.responds.get('gn').execute(message, fixgreet);
    }

Which doesn't return an error at all, but also won't respond. gnraw is the Array which contains the elements, and greetings is the message content sent by the user, the if statement should be true when the message content contains one of the elements in gnraw and it should send a response.

gn.txt is a TEXT file with strings, which i created it into an array (gnraw) by using :

const gnvars = fs.readFileSync('./commands/urls/gn.txt').toString('utf-8');
const gnraw = gnvars.split('\n');

Here is an example of what would they look.

the TEXT file could be:

gm
good morning
good day

Then gnraw will be ['gm', 'good morning', 'good day'] which is formatted from the TEXT file.

As an example of what i would like to happen.

User A : "Good morning." *sends a message, which then identified as greetings

User B : "GM" *identified as greetings aswell.

if one of the elements in gnraw is included in greetings then the Bot should respond with 'Good morning'.

Please tell me how do i make the bot respond to a message that has one of the elements in the array. I am fairly new to JavaScript.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 315

Answers (1)

Jaromanda X
Jaromanda X

Reputation: 1

The code I suggested in the comments would work (not sure what you're saying doesn't work about it) - but it has a flaw

If greetings were something "I have a lot of phlegm" - it would match with gm

so lets try another way

function fn(keywords, target) {
    const res = keywords.map(s => new RegExp(`\\b${s}\\b`));
    return res.some(re => target.match(re));
}

client.on('message', message =>{

    if (message.author.bot) return;

    const fixgreet = message.content.slice();
    const greetings = fixgreet.toLowerCase();
    const gnvars = fs.readFileSync('./commands/urls/gn.txt').toString('utf-8');
    const gnraw = gnvars.split('\n');

    if (fn(gnraw, greetings)) {
        client.responds.get('gn').execute(message, fixgreet);
    }

so .. fn returns a boolean, that is true if one of the gnraw values is found in the greetings string

Upvotes: 1

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