Hey I’m sure there is a simple way to do this but I can’t seem to figure it out using the documentation or looking through forum posts.

I want to write patterns that pick up on emoticon inputs such as, “:)” or “:-)”

How do I need to format such patterns to avoid issues with that parens being misinterpreted as closing brackets for my patterns?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Hi Ed. 

You will need to translate them.

There is a texting.txt in the /LIVEDATA folder.  There is already mapped to concept ~emohappy and :( mapped to concept ~emosad.  There is also a file called substitutes.txt in the same folder.  I tried to add mapped to emoticonwink and :’) mapped to emoticontears in either file and I executed a :build 0 followed by a :build Harry command but I was not able to get them to work.  Adding other abbreviations into the substitutes.txt file seems to work after a :build 0 command.  So there may be nuances to adding substitutes for punctuation that Bruce will need to elaborate on.  if you want to control the mapping for and :( you will most like need to edit or remove them from the texting.txt file so there is no conflict.

I tried using the existing ~emohappy and ~emosad concepts in a pattern but they did not seem to work so perhaps Bruce can explain how to use them or enable them for use in Harry.

Thanks Alaric for your response! I had not seen these. 

Unfortunately, I am not able to get any of the existing ~emohappy/sad emoticon concepts to work in patterns either.

Bruce, would you happen to have a quick bit of insight for us here?

Thanks guys

bug introduced into tokenizer. Will try to fix this weekend.

Amazing. Thanks, Bruce!

new CS version now up should fix emoticon parsing.