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Puzzling over redirects
  
 
Posted: Jul 24, 2015

Can someone tell me what’s wrong with this code?

+ my name is _
-  A pleasure to meet you, <get name>!

+ i am _
@ my name is _ 

It doesn’t seem to matter how I strip this down (and this is the very stripped version), both my local Python install and the online RiveScript tester respond to “I am Kat” with “ERR: No Reply Matched”. I’ve tested a few other redirects and they work okay; what is it about this one that’s choking the bot?

Somebody please point out my obvious and foolish beginner’s error; I am far too frustrated to be proud. smile
 

 
Posted: Aug 14, 2015
   [ # 1 ]

Try

+ my name is _
-  A pleasure to meet you, <get name>!

+ i am _
@ my name is <star> 

What was probably happening is the _ was being stripped out from the redirect for being a non-alphanumeric character. To pass a wildcard on through a redirect you have to use the <star> tags to copy them into the redirect. (Think of the @ command as being “pretend the user said this instead” rather than being a copy/paste of the trigger you’re redirecting to)

So if the user says “I am Kat” you want it to be like “pretend they said: my name is Kat” and to do that you use the <star> to insert the name from the “i am _” trigger.
 

 
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