New expressions have been added to the term filter.
These new expressions can be used by adding them to prohibited.txt and allowed.txt.
Read on (https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/60429?p=651218&viewfull=1#post651218) for information on how to activate the Term Filter.
<table width="560" border="0"><tr><td style="border-style:none;" colspan="3" align="center"><<New Features>></td></tr><tr style="text-align:center;"><th style="background:#a8d0d7;" width="25%">Metacharacter</th><th style="background:#a8d0d7;" width="75%">Function</th></tr><tr style="text-align:left;"><td style="background:#c6e9ef;text-align:center;">[]</td><td style="background:#eaf2f3;text-align:center;">Activates filter if any of the characters contained within are present.<br>* Japanese characters and alphanumeric characters are both available.<br><br>
Ex.: If your designated term is “Potion +[12]”, then the filter will activate if “Potion +1” or “Potion +2” are present in the message.
Ex.: If your designated term is “[Po]”, then the filter will activate if either “P” or “o” are present in the message.
Ex.: If your designated term is “Potion [D],” then the filter will activate only if “Potion D” is present in the message.
</td></tr><tr style="text-align:left;"><td style="background:#c6e9ef;text-align:center;">^</td><td style="background:#eaf2f3;text-align:center;">Activates filter if any of characters other than those contained within are present. This expression must be combined with the above [] expression.<br><br>Ex.: Ex. If your designated term is “Potion +[^12]”, then the filter will not activate if the message contains “Potion +1” or “Potion +2,” but will activate for any other “Potion +x” permutation.</td></tr><tr style="text-align:left;"><td style="background:#c6e9ef;text-align:center;">-</td><td style="background:#eaf2f3;text-align:center;">Activates filter if any characters in a given range are present. This expression must be combined with the above [] expression. <br><br>Ex.: If your designated term is “Potion+ [1-3]”, then the filter will activate if the message contains “Potion +1”, “Potion +2”, or “Potion +3”.</td></tr><tr style="text-align:left;"><td style="background:#c6e9ef;text-align:center;">.</td><td style="background:#eaf2f3;text-align:center;">Activates filter if a number of characters equal to the number of wildcard characters is present. This expression must be combined with the above [] expression. <br><br>Ex.: If your designated term is “Potion [.][.]”, then the filter will activate if the message contains “Potion +1”, “Potion +2”, or “Potion +3”.
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* The maximum number of characters that can be used in these newly added expressions is 30.<br>* If any of the following is true, the expression will not function and the text will be registered as-is.
The expression contains double-byte characters
There is no closing bracket
If “^” is used anywhere other than immediately following “[“
If there are no characters after an “^”
If the number of opening and closing brackets are not equal
If there are no numbers predeeding or following a “-“
If the characters surrounding a “-“ are not in numerical/alphabetical order
If the brackets contain no characters inside
If the expression [.] contains characters other than a single “.”
Designation multiple expressions
The above four expressions can be used with previous added expressions such as (i) and (s).
Ex.: If your designated term is “(s)Potion+[12]”, then in the filter will activate if the message contains “Potion+1”, “Potion+2”, “Potion +1”, or “Potion +2”.
Bracketed expressions can be nested.
Nesting brackets enables you to set multiple conditions.
Ex.: If your designated term is [1-3[a-c]], then the will activate if the messages contains 1, 2, or 3 followed by a, b, or c.
Consecutive bracketed expressions
If bracketed expressions following each other in sequence, they will be designated as a wildcard.
Ex.: If your designated term is [a][b][c], then “abc” will be designated as a wildcard.
Designating metacharacters
Metacharacters such as “.” And “^” can be added to the term filter as ordinary characters if they are proceeded by a backslash.
Ex.: If your designated term contains “playonline[\._com], then the filter will activate if the message contains “playonline.com” or “playonline_com”.
<table width="560" border="0"><tr><td style="border-style:none;" colspan="3" align="center"><<Metacharacter list>></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3" align="center">[]</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#f5fafb" align="center">^</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#eaf2f3" align="center">-</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#f5fafb" align="center">.</td></tr></table>