RiveScript::Tutorial 1.02

RiveScript::Tutorial is a beginners guide to creating their first RiveScript brain.

This tutorial outlines the various capabilities of the RiveScript specification and offers some recommended pointers for creating a well-formed RiveScript brain. What you do with this knowledge is up to you; be creative!

Be sure to skim over the RiveScript manpage first, because this tutorial jumps right in to using the various RiveScript commands without always explaining what each of them do.

A Simple RiveScript Interpreter

Here is a simple Perl script for running a RiveScript interpreter. This assumes that the brains RS files will be stored in a directory called "tutorial", local to the Perl script. Youd want to edit certain parameters in this code if you see fit.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;
use RiveScript;

# Create the RiveScript interpreter.
my $rive = new RiveScript();

# Load the RS tutorial brain.
$rive->loadDirectory ("./tutorial");

# Sort them.
$rive->sortReplies;

# Go into a chatting loop.
while (1) {
print "User> ";
my $msg = ;
chomp $msg;

# Grab a reply.
my @reply = $rive->reply (user,$msg);
print " Bot> $_n" foreach(@reply);
}