* Regular expression matching (Testing command; Alpha) Creating a beta-testing command that matches any line starting with punctuation. Sometimes we want to let testers of a game insert their own comments during a transcript, without those comments wasting turns of the game or producing lengthy or inappropriate parser errors. Many testers have a habit of prefacing comments with a punctuation mark, so let's say that we'd like to catch any command that starts with any punctuation at all: {*} "Alpha" When play begins: say "Hi, Larry! Thanks for testing my game!!" Unimplemented Room is a room. "Room description goes here..." The scary troll is a man in Unimplemented Room. After reading a command (this is the ignore beta-comments rule): if the player's command matches the regular expression "^\p": say "(Noted.)"; reject the player's command. Test me with "x me / x troll / !this game is a bit dull so far / kiss troll / ? does this troll do anything? / :yawn".