Watch Words will recognize words in quote

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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!

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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?

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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.

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

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I believe pfaffman is right, and that’s not possible:

I tried myself and couldn’t achieve what you want despite valid regex, so there seems to be a limitation here.

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