🔒 code fix when adding extra letters between the blacklisted words

[modest imp]

1. The purpose of the bot is to delete messages from new_dutch_words.txt document, basically 8000 lines of dutch words /// (WORKS)

2. When a different text is sent then edited to dutch words listed in new_dutch_words.txt document are supposed to be deleted /// (WORKS)

3. When extra letter is added between the blacklisted words listed in new_dutch_words.txt document, the user can bypass and the message wont be deleted /// (DOESN'T WORK, need help)

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/Z73Q

[keen lynx]

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[dry acorn]

@modest imp Can you give a sample, say 10-15 lines, of what the new_dutch_words.txt file looks like?

[modest imp]

sure

i will send ss ow

[dry acorn]

sure thing

[dry acorn]

I'm a little unsure of what the problem is, I get part of what you mean in your 3rd point, here

But, when you say an extra letter added between blacklisted words

do you mean like

[modest imp]

so lets say the first word

[dry acorn]

Smeets
O
uitpakken

?

[dry acorn]

yeah

[modest imp]

when i write 'smeets' it will be deleted

[dry acorn]

right

[modest imp]

but if i write 'smeetsss' or 'smeetss' it wont be deleted

because there is extra letter

and here its the s

for example i can write smeetssa and i can bypass

[dry acorn]

I see that, im just looking through the code to better understand it

[modest imp]

oke sure

[dry acorn]

Well, to me it makes sense that the code is doing this, because as the code is right now; it's going to search for any strings in new_dutch_words containing the pattern smeetsss, which there isn't any

[modest imp]

yes so what do we do so that it detects the actual word from that document if extra letters are added and deletes it?

[dry acorn]

If you wanted it to do something like this though I think you could basically reverse the check in some way, say, instead of checking if a word is in new_dutch_words, you could check if new_dutch_words[index] is in the string word

However, that solution could take the code much longer to run

Just because if a word youre looking for is at the end of the list, itll loop over every string in the list

In which case you could employ a sorting algorithm for it, but take that idea with a grain of salt please, cause i'm not the most up-to-date with sorting algorithms

[modest imp]

i will figure that out but i dont know how to explain in python to do that

[dry acorn]

It should be easy to find a way to do it, I recommend asking chatgpt to see what it says, and check it with other people on this server or with information online https://chat.openai.com/

Basically just explain what your program does, and what you want it to do. Make sure you tell it to explain the changes it made to the code, cause sometimes it doesn't

[keen lynx]

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[modest imp]

def contains_dutch_words(message):
    words = message.content.split()
    for word in words:
        # Remove extra characters from the word
        clean_word = ''.join(e for e in word if e.isalnum())
        
        # Check if the cleaned word is a Dutch word
        for dutch_word in new_dutch_words:
            pattern = r'\b' + dutch_word + r'\b'
            if re.search(pattern, clean_word, re.IGNORECASE):
                return True
    return False

i will do what u told me

what do u think about this?

[dry acorn]

reading it now

[modest imp]

i mean i have that

[dry acorn]

Oh that's just unchanged from the original code you sent, right?

[modest imp]

yes, its real one

nothing changed

but still doesnt delete

[dry acorn]

damn my bad, wasted a bit of time then as I already read that

doesn't delete at all, or doesnt delete in a situation like Smeet - Smeetsssss?

[modest imp]

Nope

@dry acorn

# Function to check if a message contains any of the Dutch words
def contains_dutch_words(message):
    words = message.content.split()
    for word in words:
        # Remove extra characters from the word
        clean_word = ''.join(e for e in word if e.isalnum())
        
        # Check if the cleaned word is a Dutch word
        for dutch_word in new_dutch_words:
            pattern = r'\b' + dutch_word + r'\b'
            # Modify the pattern to match the blacklisted words even when extra letters are added from either side
            modified_pattern = r'\b' + dutch_word + r'\b|' + r'\b' + dutch_word + r'\b'
            if re.search(modified_pattern, clean_word, re.IGNORECASE):
                return True
    return False

this is the updated code

gonna try now

still doesnt work

[keen lynx]

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