Generating a Random Response

A random response generator works for anything from a Magic 8 ball command to a coin toss command, to a random image, joke, phrase, or even paper/scissors/rock command. The bot will generate a random number and select a response based on the number chosen.

Action 1: Generate a random number this will allow the bot to select one of your pre-programmed responses.

Action 2: Send message based on the number generated using a switch/case script.

Switch/case basically evaluates the statement defined in switch(tempVars("rand-num")) and selects the matching response from the list of case items. The last item should always be default this is often used for error handling if no case match is found. In this case the possible outcomes of the rand-num variable are known and such a short list that default can be used to indicate the last match rather than an error.

msg.channel.send("text") will send a message to the current channel.

break; ends the action

Copyable code (by request)

Send message to the current channel:

switch(tempVars("rand-num")){
   case 1: msg.channel.send("Answer 1"); break;
   case 2: msg.channel.send("Answer 2"); break;
   case 3: msg.channel.send("Answer 3"); break;
   case 4: msg.channel.send("Answer 4"); break;
   default: msg.channel.send("Answer 5"); break;
}

Save message as a variable to use later:

switch(tempVars("rand-num")){
   case 1: var resp = "Answer 1"; break;
   case 2: var resp = "Answer 2"; break;
   case 3: var resp = "Answer 3"; break;
   case 4: var resp = "Answer 4"; break;
   default: var resp = "Answer 5"; break;
};
this.storeValue(resp, 1 ,"answer", cache);

(you would use tempVars("answer") to call this variable