Text Comparator Expanded

This User Actor has all the functions of the normal Text Comparator actor, but adds an additional mode that detects if the incoming string (‘text 1’ input) contains the string specified in the ‘text 2’ input.

This additional mode is extremely useful for parsing text where you’re not looking for an exact match, but rather to see if a certain character, word, or series of words is present somewhere in the incoming string. I use this User Actor in tandem with ZoomOSC to parse Zoom chat for chat commands in order to make Zoom-native, interactive games, Zoom Chat commands, chatbots, voting/polling/scoring mechanics, and virtual theatre functions with Isadora.