If() help

Hey im trying to make an event that will trigger when it hears a specific word said by its owner

i have

if(m=="lol"
{
updateparticles;
}

and this works if i say "lol" and nothing else around it

i need it to trigger the event weather i say just "lol" or "omg lol how funny" or "wow lol thats neat"

or any sentance that has lol in it at some place

i thought maybe listing out m but i cant find or it isnt plain to see in wiki an even that will notice one word out of a list also i think this way wouldnt be proficient on resources.

if anyone can help me that would be great thanks

Check out llGetSubString.

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i saw that wiki seems to explain it in such a way that it will return a specific word in the string or the whole string or a part of the string so then if i set it to return the 3rd word and lol was the forth it wouldnt work

or am i reading this completely wrong

Actually, llSubStringIndex may be of more use to you then llGetSubString.
It returns the index of the speficied string within another or -1 if the substring isnt found.
This way, you could do

if (llSubStringIndex(m, "lol") != -1) {
    // Then "lol" is in the message.
}

==Chris

I think Moleculor mean llSubStringIndex, which searches for a specified substring and returns -1 if the substring is not found. So you could try something like this:

if ( llSubStringIndex( msg, "lol") != -1 )
{
    // do whatever
}

Edit: Whoops, looks like Christopher beat me to it

The best way to do it is to use llDumpList2String to convert the entire line of text to a list, then check whether or not "lol" exists somewhere in that list, by using llListFindList. Because llListFindList will return the first occurrence of "lol", or -1 if it's not found, you can then do 'if (position > -1)' to do the equivalent of an OR check, rather than looking for the position.

Edit: heh, beat to it. Also, I like lists, can you tell?

thank you very much this is exactly what i was looking for

funny thing is i passed over the index one in wiki because it didnt seem to be what i was looking for but it worked so awesome thanks to everyone who helped too this is awesome i can move and now

You might want to try...

if (llSubStringIndex(m, " lol ") != -1)
{
}

so that it doesn't trigger on "lollypop" or other words with "lol" inside of it.