Why didn't this blacklist work?

Did the spam message you had, maybe have 2 spaces ? Unless * cannot be used for spaces. Not sure on that.

Hey @Sleepy Gorilla!

I believe the wildcard character (*) only works when it's at the end of a word, if you want to match what was sent in your chat, using "dot com" would have worked.

If you're familiar with RegExp you can create more advanced filters.

Had a look at the advanced filters page and it's not saying a lot about REGEX.
Which syntax does it use please (as there are a few slightly different ones).

Many thanks :)

Swanky Panda said:
Which syntax does it use please

~/[pattern]/[flags]

For help on the pattern and eventual flags/modifiers see the RegExp link above.

The only modifier you might need is "i" for case-insensitive matches, the others are a bit useless in our context.

For the pattern you do it like usual, so if you want to match "dot com" and "dotcom" for example, the pattern will be: /dot\s?com/, then for Nightbot to work with it you just need to add a tilde (~) before the pattern: ~/dot\s?com/, and if you want it to match "DOT COM" as well as "DOTCOM" too, you can add the "i" modifier: ~/dot\s?com/i

As far as I can see, this may work for you.........

~/dot[\s,.-_]+com/

Yep, that said, if you want to account for any character(s) that could be placed between the "dot" and "com" (including the lack of one), you can do the simpler: ~/dot.*com/i

I deleted this message as I was talking C**P :D :D

Thanks. Didn't realize the wildcard could only go at the end. I'm pretty good with regex so I'll just do that, much easier. Thanks