Chatmon: does not strip all formatting prior to match

[Xabis]

It seems that Chatmon does not strip color codes prior to making a match.

When using Battlemod, it will rewrite chat lines to include a lot of color coding around targets and ability names,

Example: <trigger match="*Phlegm Expulsion*" sound="..." />

Raw text, after Battlemod (simplified mode, default template): [Thillloab
]  Phlegm
 Expulsion
¨ Thillloab


For this example, the trigger will not fire, because it is matching on the raw input which includes the control bytes.

A workaround would be to place wildcards between each word, which is not ideal, and can lead to false positives: <trigger match="*Phlegm*Expulsion*" sound="..." />

This needs to be resolved by stripping all special codes from the input prior to making a match.

Related: https://github.com/Windower/Lua/issues/2244

[Xabis]

I wrote a lua version of chatmon to address this issue. This new version (should be) backwards compatible with the plugin xml configuration for anyone interested. This has been decently tested and works with Battlemod.

Additionally, I have expanded the functionality to include basic spam filtering, and added commands to configure things without needing to change the xml itself.

Repo: https://github.com/Xabis/Chatmon

@Byrth, pending review of course, this may be something to consider for the official addon collection, at your discretion.

[z16]

@Xabis This is solely at your discretion, and yours alone :) If you wanna submit the addon to the repo just submit a PR and we will review it. We generally approve of people submitting addons to our repository, so feel free to do it.

[Xabis]

@z16, thanks for letting me know.

I have opened a PR here: https://github.com/Windower/Lua/pull/2254