C#•2w ago

Profanity Filter

So the biggest advice I've gotten to learn programing is to just make stuff. So I thought I'd take what I saw from my latest lesson and try and apply it into something familair. I was learning boolean expressions and how the example showed a string and how it detected if the term 'fox' was present. I thought, 'Ok I can see how that comes in handy, it's probably how websites and stuff find and filter out profanity. So I decided to make one one but every time I run it, it comes back not detecting any. Is this because I have the user input the string? Or is there something I'm missing. Also this should go without saying but the code contains a number of dirty words so it'll be blurred for those who don't want to see it.

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Angius•2w ago

This creates a single string: "bitchfuckshitcuntdamncockpussyassdickdyke" I don't think the message you enter contains such a string

NoobEclipse•2w ago

dont take my word for it but isnt the answer as simple as putting it as ("slur1") ("slur2") etc etc?

Angius•2w ago

As in, message.Contains("a")("b")("c")? No

NoobEclipse•2w ago

okay so ive been looking at it and the way i originally thought is calling it like literal functions he would have to include after each slur so message.Contains("a") message.Contains("b") || essentially saying instead of all these words it has this or this or this if that makes sense?

Angius•2w ago

||text|| in Markdown is a spoiler, that's why we use code blocks with backticks

NoobEclipse•2w ago

its just a thought idk if it would work in practicallity

Angius•2w ago

Bue yes, you're right It would work, although I pity anybody who would have to write it for 100+ words

NoobEclipse•2w ago

yeah lol, surely there is an easier way around it but if its only for a basic filter it should be fine as above

Angius•2w ago

An array of words + a loop, or an array of words + LINQ

NoobEclipse•2w ago

i hadnt even thought of an array tbf, though im still fairly new so im proud of myself for even managing to somewhat solve this problem lmao

Jake GoodheartOP•2w ago

What's LINQ?

Angius•2w ago

Kind of like list comprehension in Python

int[] nums = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, ];
var firstThreeDoubledEvens = nums
    .Where(n => n % 2 == 0) // take only even numbers
    .Select(n => n * 2)     // multiply them all
    .Take(3)                // take 3 of them
    .ToList();              // get a list

int[] nums = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, ];
var firstThreeDoubledEvens = nums
    .Where(n => n % 2 == 0) // take only even numbers
    .Select(n => n * 2)     // multiply them all
    .Take(3)                // take 3 of them
    .ToList();              // get a list

There are more methods to it, of course. Like .Any(), .Contains(), etc.

Jake GoodheartOP•2w ago

Hm, well I'll learn that eventually. Right now the solution presented works just fine. Though now I feel bad for anyone whose worked on a game chat to have to go in and think up every single type of profanity.

Angius•2w ago

Sure, everything in due time Also, ready-made lists of profanities already exist for anyone to use For example https://github.com/dsojevic/profanity-list Or https://dedolist.com/lists/language/profane-words-english/api/

Jake GoodheartOP•2w ago

That's another thing I gotta learn, navigating github

NoobEclipse•2w ago

you and me both, i have an account but i always forget to use it i keep forgetting just how resourceful/powerful it is lol

phaseshift•2w ago

Next problem, have a profanity filter, but not block Scunthorpe, and other false positives

Jake GoodheartOP•3d ago

Yeah I haven't gotten that far in learning yet XD

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