BRIANSTORM - Please provide one more bit of advice

[Psych]

Hi brianstorm

Thanks for answering my problem

It all seems a great solution, but...... I don't know how to write the script to do the things you decribe.

Any chance of a little more help - I really need the script so I can simply paste it in.

I am particularly stuck on the following steps:

step five- if so, have the script determine the leftmost character
of the second word

step six- have the script paste together the name of the Define_(x).brn

step seven- use HalBrain.TopicSearch to send the word to the appropriate .brn file and retrieve the definition (of course, the
.brn's all need to be correctly formatted to the .TopicSearch's
format requirements).

step eight- make it GetResponse


I hope its just a two minute job for you - for me it would mean many hours of learning script - and even then I would probably get it wrong.

If you are unable to help further - thanks a million for all your help so far.

Regards - Psych

[brianstorm]

Psych-

assuming that we are past the point of attempting to 'fool' the program (which btw I feel the Loebner Competition and prize are
designed to hinder the development of AI in that sense), here
is a possible step five;


If Instr(1, UserSentence, "define", VbTextCompare) > 0 then
    DefineSent = Replace(1, UserSentence, "define", "", 1, -1, VbTextCompare)  
    DefineSent = Trim(DefineSent) '<-------removes spaces
    DefineIndex = Left(DefineSent, 1)
End If

OK, with these lines you got two new variables DefineSent, which is the word and DefineIndex, which is the letter.

HAHAHAaaaa, Psych, I am no 'expert' like you sed, persuing the hard problem here has meant many hours of fighting with learning this VBScript for me too. My programming experience comes from knowledge
of an ancient and antiquated programming language that provides the basics (pun intended) for the stuff I make. Find the VBScript documentation over at the evil empire's website, what the commands do are no different, just the syntax. It will make more sense as you go along    >B)

I got too many Irons in the fire right now to collaberate including relocating the research facility!
OTCE's thing pt 2, something else that came from that -which I can only name at this time: THE .BRN MAKER!! , multiUser functionality of Hal:
say your friend comes over and says hello to your AI -it changes
the <UserName> and then says hi to your friend and writes new files
specific to your friend(the script looks like it will do this unaltered). I am also battling this big ass monster named Boaz
in 'TombRaider -angel of Darkness!   HAHAHAHAAaaaa    >B)

CatAtomic