Case sensitivity

#1 There is a string compare function

Strcmp(str1,str2)

You could try comparing the input as str1 and loop through your list with str2

#2 Ok heres my prob, I've tried several different ways but still cant seem to get it right. Heres a snipit from the read code of the string. Where exactly would I put the strcmp function at to make it work correctly?

{
 for(%i=0; %i<$numBannedWords; %i++)
 {	
 %string = Strreplace( %string, $bannedWords[%i],  replacementWord[%i] );
 }
 return %string;
}

in this case I would say %string would need to be compared with $bannedWords, however I have not been able to make this happen correctly. Any ideas on how this would work or where exactly I would put it. There is a small line of script that intiates the read code to the posted script above. I dont remember where exactly I got this curse omitter script but it does work well, all except the case sensitive stuff.

#3 I would say before the strreplace and place the strreplace in an if block defined by the strcmp

#4 When you are comparing, use this function:

%newString = strlwr(%myString);

The function 'strlwr();' will convert the inputted '%myString' to lowercase. Now you can just compare it to the lowercase version! =)

Also, if you want to continue to use the string compare function there is a version of that function that is case-insenstive:

Stricmp(%string1,%string2);

#5 I'm guessing you don't really want to compare yourself - you just want a version of StrReplace that does a case-insensitive find and then replaces. I'm not sure if such a thing exists offhand, though adding it to the engine wouldn't be difficult. If you (Chris) need help adding that to the engine, let us know.

-Dan

#6 I ran into a similar problem when trying to make the chat system recognize and respond to slash commands.
What I ended up doing is looping through the message word by word, using strlwr and strcmp together, if the lower case version of the word matches the command word then remove the command word from text and take action.
Exact same principle could be used for a badword filter.

If the word is not what you are looking for then you just move on to the next word and leave the word the way you found it.

#7 I actually came up with a working script for this... I also managed to come up with a Private Ingame Messenger using similar functions that I found in the curse filter script. Thanks for all ur input guys...