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Timothy Van Cauwenberge
8,958 PointsHelp creating a chatbot
I'm working on creating a chatbot in java. I need it to return "Tell em more about father(or mother)" if the user says something like "I hate my mother" or "I hate my father". So I think I would need to find a way to find the string "mother" inside the user's input to trigger the "tell me more about your mother" string from the chatbot. Please help.
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Alexander Davison
65,469 PointsI'm not very familiar with Java (I'm new, let's put it that way), but I'm sure you can convert the input to lowercase somehow. I would search the Java documentation (look it up).
If there's a function that returns the lowercased version of a string, you can use that. I'm assuming there's a .toLowerCase() function. Notice it might cause an error, since you should find the function that lowercases a string.
If .toLowerCase() were a function on strings, this would probably work:
// Returns true if "testString" variable has the sub string "mother", or else false
testString.toLowerCase().contains("mother");
I hope this helps
Good luck coding 
Timothy Van Cauwenberge
8,958 PointsTimothy Van Cauwenberge
8,958 PointsI figured out I should use the .contains() method on the user's input. But idk how to make it so if the user puts in "Mother"(capital M) instead of "mother" it'll still accept "Mother" like it would "mother"