Hi, everyone. When I was using watch words to automatically flag a post with certain words, I found that it can flag a post whose quote have the specific words. I tried to use regular expression to avoid the situation. But do you guys have a better idea? Just like [quote="好？, post:35, topic:197290, username:思源xi路"] 回购率蹭蹭上去。 [/quote] When I detect “xi”, it just recognize “思源xi路”. That bothers our team a lot. This is the regular expression I used: (?<![a-zA-Z0-9])xi(?![a-zA-Z0-9路]) Can we create a regular expression to avoid flagging posts in quote? Thank you!

What’s more, I hope the regular expression will recognize the quote content, not the name or the username. :wink: I tried a lot to solve the problem, but ChatGPT seems not able to help with me. Is there anything to do with the Ruby regular expression?

[image] wellbing-go: Can we create a regular expression to avoid flagging posts in quote? Do you want people to be able to avoid your flags I think that the regex is likely line-limited, so you won’t be able to use a regex to tell if a line is inside a quote. I could be wrong. EDIT: I misunderstood. You just want to avoid flagging the stuff inside of the [quote ... ] tag, not the tag itself. That seems like a legit feature request.

[image] Jay Pfaffman: Do you want people to be able to avoid your flags I don’t think so: [image] wellbing-go: , I hope the regular expression will recognize the quote content, not the name or the username. So essentially, I understand this as what it should/shouldn’t ignore: [quote="ignore this part, post:xyz, topic:abc, username:ignoreThisToo"] Don't ignore this [/quote] Definitely don't ignore this

Thanks. That’s exactly what I want to express. I just don’t know how to write a regular expression to control that.

[image] wellbing-go: I just don’t know how to write a regular expression to control that. I believe pfaffman is right, and that’s not possible: [image] Jay Pfaffman: I think that the regex is likely line-limited I tried myself and couldn’t achieve what you want despite valid regex, so there seems to be a limitation here.

Watch Words will recognize words in quote

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Firepup650 (Firepup Sixfifty) September 11, 2023, 8:07pm 5

I don’t think so:

So essentially, I understand this as what it should/shouldn’t ignore:

[quote="ignore this part, post:xyz, topic:abc, username:ignoreThisToo"]
Don't ignore this
[/quote]
Definitely don't ignore this

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