AIML not printing anything within this one condition loop; XCAR in nested category inside that condition loop treating input sentence as a single word - aiml

Question

Using the standard library.
The code looks like <srai>XCAR AB, CD</srai>
But the stack trace shows [0] srai of XCAR AB,CD with the space removed.
Using Pandorabots.com.
I'm trying to loop though a string of , -delineated words of uniform length using XSUBSTRING, in order to map each one to a human-readable output.
So I'm using a nested category to get and print the XCAR of each XSUBSTRING based on the updated index predicate from the outer category.
Here's the code for the outer category:
<category>
<pattern>COMMAND</pattern>
<template>
<think>
<set name="index">0</set>
<set name="allitemsprinted">FALSE</set>
</think>
This part prints for me.
<br/><br/>
So does this.
<!-- iterate through "ties" -->
<condition name="allitemsprinted" value="FALSE">
But this doesn't print.
Nor does anything after.
This srai works correctly:
<srai>XCDR UX, SE, CS</srai>
<srai>PRINT ITEM</srai>
<loop/>
</condition>
<br/>
</template>
</category>
And here's the nested category:
<category>
<pattern>PRINT ITEM</pattern>
<template>
<think>
<set var="itemlocation">
<!-- 2-char name plus delim -->
<srai>XMUL <get name="index"/> XS 4</srai>
</set>
<set var="remainingitems">
<srai>XSUBSTRING <get name="items"/> XS <get var="itemlocation"/></srai>
</set>
<!-- increment index -->
<set name="index">
<map name="successor">
<get name="index"/>
</map>
</set>
<!-- check for end of list -->
<set name="allitemsprinted">
<srai>XGT <get name="index"/> XS <get name="itemcount"/></srai>
</set>
</think>
Remaining items: <get var="remainingitems"/>
First remaining item: <srai>XCAR <get var="remainingitems"/></srai>
<!-- human-readable output -->
<map name="itemsreadable">
<srai>XCAR <get var="remainingitems"/></srai>
</map>
<br/>
</template>
</category>
The stack trace provided by Pandorabots shows that the <srai> inside the <condition> does indeed get called. But it won't print anything at all.

Answer 1

First, make sure normal.substitution has an entry for removing commas [",", ""], as it's very rare that the bot needs to process commas.
Assuming your map is something like this:
[
["UX", "User Experience"],
["SE", "Sales Entry"],
["CS", "Customer Services"]
]
You can then do this to get human readable output (you don't need the standard library for this):
<category>
<pattern>COMMAND</pattern>
<template>
<think><set name="itemlist">UX, SE, CS</set></think>
<srai>PRINT ITEM <get name="itemlist"/></srai>
</template>
</category>
<category>
<pattern>PRINT ITEM * *</pattern>
<template>
<map name="itemsreadable"><star/></map><br/>
<srai>PRINT ITEM <star index="2"/></srai>
</template>
</category>
<category>
<pattern>PRINT ITEM *</pattern>
<template>
<map name="itemsreadable"><star/></map>
</template>
</category>
This will produce the following: