Bot listens to wrong parts of the message about botkit

[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.