Bot listens to wrong parts of the message

[dgollub]

Hi,

I am playing around with this library and it is pretty neat, but I ran into the following issue.

const LISTEN_TO = 'direct_message,direct_mention,mention';

controller.hears(['hello','hi'], LISTEN_TO, (bot, message) => {

    bot.api.reactions.add({
        timestamp: message.ts,
        channel: message.channel,
        name: 'robot_face',
    }, (err, res) =>{
        if (err) {
            bot.log("Failed to add emoji reaction :(", err);
        }
    });

    controller.storage.users.get(message.user, (err, user) => {
        if (user && user.name) {
            bot.reply(message, `Hello ${user.name}!!`);
        } else {
            bot.reply(message, "Hello.");
        }
    });

}); // hello, hi

The bot replies Hello. even if the message to it was something like @bot: while I do not hate you ... - the hi in while triggers the bot to reply Hello..

I don't think it should be that way. Is there a bugfix for this or a workaround?

Version: I am using "botkit": "latest", in my package.json file, and it installed version 0.0.4.

[thojkooi]

Try ["\s*hi", "\s*hello"]

Hears takes a regex pattern (or patterns). You will want to match the start of a word.

The \s* will match 0 > unlimited whitespace infront of the hi or hello. So it will match against:

hi, how are you?

but not against:

while I do not hate you

[benbrown]

Another useful example:

["^hello"] matches only the start of the string

[dgollub]

@benbrown and @Glowbal Oh boy. Thanks for reminding me about the regex feature. When I first read the docs I actually saw that and thought to myself "Nice. That'll be useful." and then promptly and completely forgot about when I went on implementing my little toy bot. Derp.

Thanks again.