Re: Noobie questions

> Come on guys we all had to start somewhere? If they are not worthy of
> answers by the obviously more informed people here could someone point me to
> somewhere that I can ask basic questions please?
>
> Thank you
>
> Ad
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ad" <admail@...>
> To: <pandorabots-general@...>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:56 PM
> Subject: [pandorabots-general] Noobie questions
>
>
>> Sorry but this is giving me a headache, Ive been playing with it for a day
>> now and I'm getting some good output, but I have a couple of code
>> questions.
>> I had a quick rake through the archives but nothing came up so I hope you
>> dont mind me asking basic stuff here.
>>
>> I am starting with an empty list.
>>
>> 1) If there is no answer in the aiml I want the bot to say nothing and
>> give
>> no response but I keep getting blank lines coming up when random things
>> are
>> entered that I have no pattern for yet. I tried
>>
>> <category>
>> <pattern>*</pattern>
>>  <template/>
>> </category>
>>
>> with no joy. Can this be done?
>>
>>
>> 2) How do I stop it writing the full stop at the end of every line?
>>
>>
>> 3a)
>>
>> <category>
>> <pattern>HOW ARE YOU</pattern>
>> <template>
>>  <random>
>>  <li>great</li>
>>  <li>fine</li>
>>  <li>could be worse</li>
>>  <li>good thanks</li>
>>  </random>
>> </template>
>> </category>
>>
>> <category>
>>  <pattern>* HOW ARE YOU</pattern>
>>  <template>
>>    <srai>HOW ARE YOU</srai>
>>  </template>
>> </category>
>>
>> <category>
>>  <pattern>HOW ARE YOU *</pattern>
>>  <template>
>>    <srai>HOW ARE YOU</srai>
>>  </template>
>> </category>
>>
>> <category>
>>  <pattern>* HOW ARE YOU *</pattern>
>>  <template>
>>    <srai>HOW ARE YOU</srai>
>>  </template>
>> </category>
>>
>>
>> Do I have to have all 3 srai codeblocks to cover all eventualities of
>> things
>> like
>>
>> hi how are you?
>> how are you today?
>> hi how are you today?
>>
>> Or is there a simpler way to do this?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 4) From above
>>
>> _ HOW ARE YOU
>>
>> seems to work just as well as
>>
>> * HOW ARE YOU
>>
>> Any real difference there?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot for any help, im sure i'll have another 10 questions soon,
>> but
>> those are the ones in my mind right now.
>>
>>
>> A
>>
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