Let me give a reason for removing myself from an event

[Caspar Krieger]

/event remove me from my event because I have a team lunch I forgot about

[Michael Berman]

What's the value in that? Just to keep everything in one message? The bot would just ignore it right?

[Caspar Krieger]

Yep, would completely ignore it. Just keeps it on one line, like you said.

[Caspar Krieger]

Well, I suppose it could echo back the reason for the person being removed, but not necessary.

[Michael Berman]

Perhaps I could instead have a global way of doing that. E.g. anything after a full stop is ignored? That said, I'm not convinced it's worth doing (because then the EOM character wouldn't be able to be included in event names, etc.)

[Caspar Krieger]

You could probably just drop characters (or words + word boundary chars like commas, semicolons, etc) from the end of the string until the final chars are a valid event name. Not like you have to worry about scaling to 100+ event names ;)

[Michael Berman]

It'd be heaps nicer to implement it globally (before the message string is sent to the command) rather than do it command by command.

[Caspar Krieger]

Fair enough. Well, I doubt , . or ( or | are going to appear in event names or mention names naturally, so those would be reasonable EOMs. Or // :P

[Michael Berman]

Actually, // makes sense. Will do that.

[Michael Berman]

(Also, full stops & commas are both valid characters in date strings. FYI.)

[Caspar Krieger]

Haha, I didn't think of date strings. Nice catch!