Fixed * and |

bot/bot.py

@@ -62,9 +62,8 @@ def search_tag(self, text, subreddit="vim"):
         if subreddit not in ["vim", "neovim"]:
             subreddit = "vim"
 
+        text = text.replace('"', "quote").replace("*", "star").replace("|", "bar")
         text_escaped = text.replace("\\", "\\\\").replace("%", "\\%").replace("_", "\\_")
-        text_escaped = text_escaped.replace('"', "quote")
-
         # Get all possible matches
         possible_matches = self.cursor.execute(
             """SELECT * FROM tags WHERE tag LIKE (?) ESCAPE '\\' AND software=(?)""", ('%'+text_escaped+'%', subreddit)).fetchall()
@@ -74,7 +73,7 @@ def search_tag(self, text, subreddit="vim"):
         if len(possible_matches) == 0:
             return None
         possible_matches.sort(key=lambda t: len(t[1]))  # Sort by length
-
+        print(possible_matches)
         # If there is an exact match, it might not be the first one due to case
         # We keep checking as long as the lengths match
         for match in possible_matches:
@@ -108,7 +107,7 @@ def search_tag(self, text, subreddit="vim"):
 
             # Extract the matched part
             matched_string = tag[match_index: match_index + len(text)]
-
+            print(matched_string)
             # How many alphanumeric characters matched exactly.
             matched_alpha_numeric_characters = 0
             for i in range(len(text)):

test_bot.py

@@ -175,6 +175,21 @@ def test_punctuation_retry(self):
         for tag in tags:
             self.assertIn(tag, reply);
 
+    def test_star_and_bar(self):
+        """
+        Test that bot can find tags with '*' and '|'
+        """
+
+        bot = Bot()
+        tags = ["g*", "|"]
+        text = "Test comment: " + \
+            ','.join(list(map(lambda t: "`:h {}` ".format(t), tags)))
+
+        reply = bot.create_comment(text, None, "vim")
+        self.assertNotEqual(reply, '')
+        self.assertIn("https://vimhelp.org/pattern.txt.html#gstar", reply)
+        self.assertIn("https://vimhelp.org/motion.txt.html#bar", reply)
+
     def test_url_encoding(self):
         """
         Test that bot url encodes /