Trigger on listen event

I need some way to trigger an event whenever the object listening hears something. Recently, I've been using "if (message == message)" which doesn't work too well, and has many flaws. How exactly would you set up my request?

You don't need any check. The listen event fires whenever something is heard, assuming it fits the criteria of the original llListen.

How about:

if (message == "some specific text that you're looking for")

You want to compare what was said, against some known patterns, right. So on the other side of the == operator, you want the pattern to compare against. For example...

if (message == "Hello")
{
    llSay(0, "Hi, how are you?");
}
else if (message == "Goodbye")
{
    llSay(0, "See ya!");
}

I hope that makes sense. You need to compare the variable against something specific, or compare it against another variable. Comparing it with itself will always pass, so that's not a meaningful comparison. It's like checking "if (1 == 1)" ... it will always be true.

I know I'm repeating myself, but I hope I'm able to communicate what I'm trying to say

Well, what I want is something that triggers listening when INSIDE an "if (message == "blahblahblah"" event. So, lets say:

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llListen(0,"",llGetOwner(),"");
    }

    listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message)
    {
        if (message == "hello")
//Then if someone says anything after I say "hello", then it 
//Triggers the event here. 
    }
}

Says something after hello... in the same line, like someone saying "hello dolly", or a different person saying something else later, like you saying "hello" and your friend saying "hi"?

Then you just put

   listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message)
   {
      if (message == "hello") {
         //code I want to activate when someone says hello
      }
   } 

I know that, ordinary, it's that I want it to loop. But Ziggy's info earlier fixed the problem; use an else event under the if event. Thanks

Let's expand this to be a command line interpreter:

listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message) 
   {
      list params = llParseString2List(message,[" "],[]);
      string cmd = llToLower(llList2String(params,0));
      if (cmd == "load") { 
         //code I want to activate when someone says load
         if llListLength(params) < 2 { // 1 Command plus 1 argument
           llSay(0,"Useage: load <filename>");
           return;
         }
         string filename = llList2String(params,1);
         return; 
      }
      else if (cmd == "save") {
         return; 
      }
      else if (cmd == "yawn") {
         return; 
      }
      // and so on
   }

The advantages:
- The commands are not case sensitive anymore (thanks to llToLower)
- You can easily get the parameters with llList2Whatever (String, Integer, the like) from the list "params", using an idex starting from 1 (as 0 is the command itself)
- You can even easily check for the number of arguments and return an error if neccessary.
- It returns from the function when a valid command is found, saving some runtime.

Feel free to flesh it out as needed.

*meow*
Sheila!