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can I use star in a condition tag?
  
 
Posted: Feb 9, 2016

Can I do the following?  I am getting errors on Pandorabot:

<condition>
<li name = "<star/>-laststep-done" value = "done">
....
</condition> 
 

 
Posted: Feb 9, 2016
   [ # 1 ]

I am not sure you can have * or <star> in the name of the predicate you are testing.  You can have a * in the value.

Try this instead:

<category><pattern>test1 *</pattern>
    <template>
        <think><set name="status"><srai>XRETURNSTATUS <star/></srai></set></think>
        <condition name="status">
            <li value="done">Awesome, we are done.</li>
            <li value="error">Oops. We have an error.</li>
            <li>Nope not done yet.</li>
        </condition>
    </template>
</category>

<category><pattern>XRETURNSTATUS * dash laststep dash done</pattern>>
    <template>done</template>
</category>

<category><pattern>XRETURNSTATUS * dash laststep dash error</pattern>>
    <template>error</template>
</category>

<category><pattern>XRETURNSTATUS *</pattern>>
    <template>not done</template>
</category> 

NOTE: - dashes are converted to the word “dash” by the normal substitution file in the Pandorabots playground so -laststep-done becomes “dash laststep dash done” in the pattern.

Sample Output:

Human: test1 open-firststep-done
sienna4: Nope not done yet. 

Human: test1 close-laststep-error
sienna4: Oops. We have an error. 

Human: test1 close-laststep-done
sienna4: Awesome, we are done. 

 
 

 
Posted: Mar 25, 2016
   [ # 2 ]

Thanks for the example.  I *think* I understand how to move forward, but this gave a great example of how to think of a similar solution.  I hadn’t thought of putting a <srai> in the value for a set name.
 

 
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