#12 Something wrong with <star/>

[Anonymous]

Hello. Many people found this bug.

<category>
<pattern>TELL ME *</pattern>
<template>
Yes, <star/> is a good topic...
</template>
</category>

Dialog is:
******
User: Tell me about this day.
Bot: Yes, about this day this day is a good topic...
******
This repeatings are also in gossips and in many other
things.
I think that I solve this problem. The function
fastforward() in graphnew.php should return one string
and should change $ffremains.. But $ffremains wasn't
changed. An then addtostar() not working properly.
I just changed:
FROM
function fastforward($word,$ffremains){
TO
function fastforward($word, &$ffremains){

Now <star/> is working fine..
I used PHP 4.3.4 win32 apache 1.3.26
MySQL 4.0.22

May be I made a mistake? Please check this and answer
me.

[man61]

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Sorry for my english. I need some practice.

[tanoshimi]

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I made the changes as suggested above, and for the most part
they work fine, however I still occassionally get odd
behaviour, especially when matching patterns containing more
than one <star />. For example:

<category>
<pattern>* VERY *</pattern>
<template>
<star index="1"/> <star index="2"/>
</template>
</category>

Dialogue is:
****
User: i am very clever
Bot: very clever am very clever
****

Can anybody help fix this? Thanks in advance for your help.

[Anne Kootstra]

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My current development version contains your change. Pending
the solution of the irregular behaviour mentioned by
alastair_a3uk it will make it in the upcoming release of
Program E.