[alicebot-general] Comma's in <that>

[Dr. Rich Wallace]

Hi Mehri,

THAT patterns and TOPIC patterns should be normalized the same way was
INPUT patterns.  They do not contain any punctuation.

Some AIML programs normalize the patterns at read-time.  You could
either throw an exception when the comma is read, or just normalize
the pattern silently.

Rich

On 1/29/07, mehri <foreverlinux at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I ran into a particular issue.
>
> Some AIML files are written with comma's in <that> and
> some are not.
>
> For example,
>
> <that>PRESS 1 TO KNOW WHAT THE MOUSE EATS, AND TO
> DISCOVER ITS COLOUR</that>
>
> and some are:
>
> <that>PRESS 1 TO KNOW WHAT THE MOUSE EATS AND TO
> DISCOVER ITS COLOUR</that>
>
> I do believe that <that>'s shouldn't contain comma's
> or other punctuation.
>
> Is that true?
>
> I didn't see anywhere in the spec pointing to this
> specifically, unless I missed something again in the
> specification :-P
>
>
>
>
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