Re: [RFT] Kannel Keyword Handling

Hi Alex,

why not just add regexp ? with regexpr you can map most variations... 

Am Dienstag, 29. Juli 2003 21:39 schrieb Alex Judd:
> OTA provisioning SMS formatI'm now getting to the point where the keyword
> handling within Kannel is not as intelligent as we need it to be and I'm
> looking to build in (or around) some better functionality. Thought it would
> be good to air my thoughts before going ahead.
>
> 1. Current behaviour
>
> The first key word (ie. the first word before a space) is read from the
> inbound SMS message and is compared against either a keyword, or an array
> of aliases for the keyword. Aliases are separated with a ; and keywords are
> finished with a space
>
> 2. New behaviour
>
> The ability to specify second and x subsequent keywords that are matched on
> a pattern basis with the inbound text message and the ability to specify a
> wildcard match for each keyword that is matched. For example
>
> Single Keyword Matching
>
> EXACT - matches all first words regardless of case with the word 'EXACT'
> EXA*    - matches all first words regardless of case with words starting
> with 'EXA'
>
> Multiple Keyword Matching
>
> SECOND WORD - matches both words regardless of case with the words 'SECOND'
> and 'WORD' SEC* WORD        - matches the first word regardless of case
> with words starting with 'SEC' and the second word exactly with 'WORD' SEC*
> WOR*         - matches the first word regardless of case with words
> starting with 'SEC' and second words starting with 'WOR'
>
> Aliases are handled in the same way.
>
> Basically this involves some fairly heavy rewrites to Kannel's behaviour
> but my thoughts are it would be better to keep this in Kannel, than to move
> the second + x word matching to separate code.
>
> Thoughts from everyone?
>
> Regards
>
> Alex

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