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Example 413

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Creating a beta-testing command that matches any line starting with punctuation.

Sometimes we want to let testers of a game insert their own comments during a transcript, without those comments wasting turns of the game or producing lengthy or inappropriate parser errors. Many testers have a habit of prefacing comments with a punctuation mark, so let's say that we'd like to catch any command that starts with any punctuation at all:

Play/modify in Borogove

Play in Quixe

"Alpha"

When play begins:

say "Hi, Larry! Thanks for testing my game!!"

Unimplemented Room is a room. "Room description goes here..."

The scary troll is a man in Unimplemented Room.

After reading a command (this is the ignore beta-comments rule):

if the player's command matches the regular expression "^\p":

say "(Noted.)";

reject the player's command.

Test me with "x me / x troll / !this game is a bit dull so far / kiss troll / ? does this troll do anything? / :yawn".

Unimplemented Room
Room description goes here...

You can see a scary troll here.

>(Testing.)

>[1] x me
As good-looking as ever.

>[2] x troll
You see nothing special about the scary troll.

>[3] !this game is a bit dull so far
(Noted.)

>[4] kiss troll
The scary troll might not like that.

>[5] ? does this troll do anything?
(Noted.)

>[6] :yawn
(Noted.)