Blank Spaces

Blank Spaces

by Philippe Decloitre -
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Hello everyone,

Is there any way to tell Moodle _for a question such as "What does WWW stand for?" in a test activity_ that there is no difference between these two answers:

"world[space]wide[space]web"

and

"world[space]wide[space][space]web"

In other words is there a way to tell Moodle to ignore extra spaces (inserted by the respondent by mistake)?

Thanks for your time.

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Re: Blank Spaces

by Howard Miller -
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This should probably be in the quiz forum.

I think this is what the 'regexp' question plugin is for.

http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=338
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Re: Blank Spaces (Regex documentation)

by Frank Ralf -
I haven't looked at the plugin yet, but shouldn't we provide some standard regexes like this one ("Ignore whitespace")?

After all, writing a regular expression is not for the faint of heart and nothing a teacher is used to do.

The only documentation I found are two links in http://moodle.org/help.php?module=lesson&file=questiontypes.html which point to
http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/tutorial-delin2.php
(which probably should better read http://devzone.zend.com/tag/REGEX now) and http://pagesperso-orange.fr/joseph.rezeau/eao/developpement/expandRegexpToString.htm.

I think we should provide better documentation for this important feature in Moodle Docs (mental note to myself...)

Cheers,
Frank
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Re: Blank Spaces (Regex documentation)

by Howard Miller -
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One of my favorite quotes...

"If you have a problem and you solve it with a regular expression, you now have two problems!"
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Re: Blank Spaces (Regex documentation)

by Philippe Decloitre -

Thanks to both of you for your answers.

Am I right in understanding that there is a "regular expressions" ferature only in the lesson activity, or is is available in the TEST activity as well (and if so where?)?

Thank you so much!

Philippe

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Re: Blank Spaces (Regex documentation)

by Jeff Forssell -
Often JR (the creator of the reg ex plugin for Moodle) is writing something at the same time I am, but in case he is delayed:

The reg ex feature is a plug-in question type that when it has been installed is available in quizzes, both as an alternative to Short answer question type and as a possible variant under the CLOZE question type. I think it is available in Lesson also, but I haven't any experience there.

Reg exp is planned to be in the core in moodle 2.0.
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Re: Blank Spaces

by Helen Foster -
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Just moving this discussion to the quiz module forum as suggested...
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