Net66 54 Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Hi all, Makes a change for me to be stumped lol. Can anyone who has figured out subtext take a look at the example dummy bot... subtextbot.ubot The bot asks for a url and should the user put a forward slash on the end of the url it should strip it off before adding "/?a=1". the ?a=1 is just an example and not what I would actually append to the url. The issue I have is that if the user of the bot puts a / on the end the url becomes www.url.com//?a=1 So I have written a sub which should take a url, check the last character of it and if its a / then it should return the url without it, else return the url as it was passed in with no changes. The logic here is to get a subtext of the url which contains the last character of the url, if its a / then set the return variable to be a subtext of the original url from position 1 to the length of the original url minus 1. Otherwise just return the original url unchanged. So to test you can use my site if you like. Run the bot with the url set to: http://www.66th.net ...and it works fine. Now run it with it set to: http://www.66th.net/ And notice how it ends up with a double // in it. Andy P.S. I can't just use replace to get rid of /'s as the url could just as easily be http://www.url.com/subfolder/anothersubfolder/pagename.php Quote Link to post Share on other sites
UBotBuddy 331 Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 I use subtext regularly. Your bot will not run for me. I get an error. Are you just trying to avoid a // situation? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Net66 54 Posted January 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 I use subtext regularly. Your bot will not run for me. I get an error. Are you just trying to avoid a // situation? Yes. What error do you get? Am I right in assuming the first character in a string of text is position 1? Andy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Net66 54 Posted January 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 I've left this for now, when I have more time I'll play about with the subtext thing some more and try to figure out why this isn't working. In the mean time I'll just make it clearer to the end user they must not put the trailing slash on. Andy "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." - Rick Cook. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
k1lv9h 76 Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." - Rick Cook.Good Quote. I changed the sample a little bit. It will remove the tailing "/" from the url. Kevinsubtextbot-test.ubot 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
UBotBuddy 331 Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Andy, You could use the $Text Length constant to get you to the end in one shot and then just read 1 character for testing to see if it is a /. In essence, you are using text length as the pointer to the spot you want to read. Buddy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Net66 54 Posted January 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Good Quote. I changed the sample a little bit. It will remove the tailing "/" from the url. Kevin Thanks Kevin! Andy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
k1lv9h 76 Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 A new version of my test bot: To take the input url http://www.66th.net or http://www.66th.net/ or http://www.66th.net/tinfot/test/page.php and give you http://www.66th.net Kevinsubtextbot-test2.ubot Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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