How i deal with cursing

[Josh]

Hey... I've read all the stuff and every seems to be doing things their own
way with cursing which is cool, I figuredI'd show you what I did.  I made a
point in pcdata that points to some user defined curse words, and then the
generic ones already in a filter.  This way the user can add ones that he or
she finds offensive.  Personally I dont allow OOC insults, orracials slurs
or such, OOC, but anything not directed at someone or anything thats
obviously IC is ok with me.  SO I dont censor things in general unless its
OOC but i dont stop my players from having code that does it.   everything
that is sent to a character is put through a filer() function, that doesnt
touch it, if the player doesnt have filter active.  I was planning on
sometime making a filter PG, PG-13, R, and X too but haven't gotten around
to levels of it right now.  what it does is replaces the the generic swear
words, and any use defined ones with %$#%#*.

void filter( CHAR_DATA *ch, char *txt)
{
   int i,len;

   char rand_letter[7] = { '!','@','#','$','%','&','*' };


   if(!IS_SET(ch->act,PLR_FILTER))
     return;

   while(*txt)
   {
      if( (len = has_swear(ch, txt)) != 0 )
      {
         for(i = 1 ; i <= len ; i++)
           *txt++ = rand_letter[number_range(0,6)];
      }
      else
        txt++;
   }

   return;
}

and then the has_swear function is this:

#define NO_SWEAR 0

int has_swear(CHAR_DATA *ch, char *txt)
{
   int i;
   char cpy[MSL];;
   char *user_sw;
   char swear[MSL];

   strcpy(cpy,txt);

   if(cpy[0] =='\0')
     return NO_SWEAR;

   for(i = 0; cpy[i] ; i++)
   {
     if(cpy[i] != LOWER(cpy[i]) )
       cpy[i] = LOWER(cpy[i]);
   }

   user_sw = ch->pcdata->curses;

   while(*user_sw)
   {
      user_sw = one_argument(user_sw, swear);
      if(!str_prefix(swear, cpy))
        return strlen(swear);
   }

   switch(cpy[0])
    {
        case 'a';
            if(!str_prefix("(the a-word goes here)",cpy))
                return 3;
            break;
        case 'f':
            if(!str_prefix("(the f-word goes here)",cpy))
                return 4;
            break;
        default:
            break;          /*i think you get the picture without going into
graphic detail*/
    }
    return NO_SWEAR;
}

That was my way of handling it... hope it helps someone... might not be the
best code, but i'm not exactly the best coder;)  Of coruse theres a
toggleable filter command, and a add_curse command too...  you can figure
those out.

-Josh