Wildcard kick and ban

[Lance]

Let's say "somenoob" is in the channel.
If I -kick some I'd like it to kick anyone's name that starts with some (kicking "somenoob")
How can this be coded? I'd like to use that type of string function for other things too.
Thanks

[iago]

That's already written in my moderation plugin, look at how I did it there.

Basically, loop through every username in the channel and check if it's a match.

[Camel]

That's already written in my moderation plugin, look at how I did it there.

Basically, loop through every username in the channel and check if it's a match.

I believe that function has position complexity O(GTFO)

[iago]

That's already written in my moderation plugin, look at how I did it there.

Basically, loop through every username in the channel and check if it's a match.

I believe that function has position complexity O(GTFO)

The complexity is boxed by the number of users in the channel (max = 40, iirc) and the number of characters in their usernames (max = 14, iirc). So, worst case, you're checking 560 characters which takes approximately 0ms.

[rabbit]

15 Characters, plus realms and character names (if D2/LoD).

[Lance]

That's already written in my moderation plugin, look at how I did it there.

Basically, loop through every username in the channel and check if it's a match.

Thanks  ;D

[iago]

15 Characters, plus realms and character names (if D2/LoD).

Still manageable. :P

[Camel]

I believe that function has position complexity O(GTFO)

The complexity is boxed by the number of users in the channel (max = 40, iirc) and the number of characters in their usernames (max = 14, iirc). So, worst case, you're checking 560 characters which takes approximately 0ms.

iago ~= s/lol/math/g;

[Lance]

Is there a way to do this without adding a star "*" or is that how the function is coded?
Actually, I can append the string with a star so nevermind.

[iago]

Is there a way to do this without adding a star "*" or is that how the function is coded?
Actually, I can append the string with a star so nevermind.

Should be simple:

foreach user in list
  if (user contains pattern)
    ban;

[Lance]

got it working beautifully
Thanks  :)

[Joe]

Is there an easy way to perform wildcard checking with regex?

[Camel]

Is there an easy way to perform wildcard checking with regex?

Not directly, but you could transform a wildcard string in to a regex. Alternatively, you could just use this class which I already wrote. :)

[iago]

Is there an easy way to perform wildcard checking with regex?

Camel's right, there's no easy way.

What you have to do is:
1) escape special characters that break regexes (and there are a bunch!)
2) replace * with .*
3) replace ? with .

I vaguely remember doing that for javaop2 somewhere.

[Camel]

It doesn't make much sense to use regexps when they're clearly undesirable. They are pretty slow just to compile, and then you have to match them to your input string on top of that. Just do something like the link I posted; it has a much lower runtime than a regexp.