- strictify

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

diff --git a/src/Factoids/Statement.pl b/src/Factoids/Statement.pl
index ed58a44800b193a5d1de32dcee50d2f5f4425674..f689fc89cce5e183e9e7acc2df4a7c4b753628dd 100644 (file)
--- a/src/Factoids/Statement.pl
+++ b/src/Factoids/Statement.pl
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 ##             - null for confused.
 ##
 
-if (&IsParam("useStrict")) { use strict; }
+# use strict;  # TODO
 
 sub doStatement {
     my($in) = @_;
@@ -55,8 +55,11 @@ sub doStatement {
     if ($in =~ /(^|\s)(is|are)(\s|$)/i) {
        my($lhs, $mhs, $rhs) = ($`, $&, $');
 
-       $lhs =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/;
-       $lhs =~ s/^(the|da|an?)\s+//i; # discard article
+       # allows factoid arguments to be updated. -lear.
+       $lhs =~ s/^(CMD: )?(.*)/$1||"" . lc $2/e;
+
+       # discard article.
+       $lhs =~ s/^(the|da|an?)\s+//i;
 
        # remove excessive initial and final whitespaces.
        $lhs =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
@@ -65,7 +68,7 @@ sub doStatement {
 
        # break if either lhs or rhs is NULL.
        if ($lhs eq "" or $rhs eq "") {
-           return;
+           return "NOT-A-STATEMENT";
        }
 
        # lets check if it failed.