controller.hears not matching regular expressions correctly

[markstickley]

Using this code:

controller.hears('set volume (.*)','direct_message,direct_mention,mention', function(bot, message) {
    console.log(message);
});

I get this output:

{ type: 'message',
  channel: 'G0HNQCS23',
  user: 'U0A1H66FJ',
  text: 'set volume 50',
  ts: '1452007099.000065',
  team: 'T09JJJWKZ',
  event: 'direct_mention' }

There is no match property on message, just the text which I suppose does mean that the regex matched even if it didn't parse the brackets.

However if the regex is 'set volume (\d+)' matching the same text doesn't work (which I think it should).

Am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks!

[lunarmayor]

@markstickley I think you have to escape the escape character like:

'set volume (\\d+)'

[markstickley]

Oh that’s makes sense yes. Because it’s a string and not a regexp like /set volume (\d+)/.

Thanks! I’ll give it a try.

On 6 Jan 2016, at 02:43, Michael Morrissey notifications@github.com wrote:

@markstickley https://github.com/markstickley I think you have to escape the escape character like:

'set volume (\d+)'
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[markstickley]

OK well that certainly now seems to match as per the regex. However there still doesn't seem to be a match property on the message as mentioned in the readme. Is this inaccurate? Should I parse the message again? Thanks!

[lunarmayor]

@markstickley are you sure you are using version 0.0.5?

[markstickley]

Ah! Well now you mention it, no I'm not! Did that come out recently?

Sorry about that, I'll update and try again :)

On 8 Jan 2016, at 19:57, Michael Morrissey notifications@github.com wrote:

@markstickley are you sure you are using version 0.0.5?

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