remove Berkeley DBM support

[infobot.git] / src / Factoids / Statement.pl

diff --git a/src/Factoids/Statement.pl b/src/Factoids/Statement.pl
index edd69cf179441edd25b31d6001a1bfa79746f734..b02a4daf1bf4412c2de24009bc237a7797863c26 100644 (file)
--- a/src/Factoids/Statement.pl
+++ b/src/Factoids/Statement.pl
@@ -6,14 +6,14 @@
 ##  doStatement --
 ##
 ##     decide if $in is a statement, and if so,
-##             - update the dbm
+##             - update the db
 ##             - return feedback statement
 ##
 ##     otherwise return
 ##             - null for confused.
 ##
 
-if (&IsParam("useStrict")) { use strict; }
+# use strict;  # TODO
 
 sub doStatement {
     my($in) = @_;
@@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ sub doStatement {
        my($lhs, $mhs, $rhs) = ($`, $&, $');
 
        # allows factoid arguments to be updated. -lear.
-       $lhs =~ s/^(CMD: )?(.*)/$1 . lc $2/e;
+       $lhs =~ s/^(CMD: )?(.*)/$1||"" . lc $2/e;
 
-       $lhs =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/;
-       $lhs =~ s/^(the|da|an?)\s+//i; # discard article
+       # discard article.
+       $lhs =~ s/^(the|da|an?)\s+//i;
 
        # remove excessive initial and final whitespaces.
        $lhs =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;