How to see if line on sign has color?

Hey my new plugin checks if someone wrote [LevelUp] on the first line and after some other stuff it sets the sign color to blue by "&1[LevelUp]". I need to use:

PHP:

if(s.getLine(0).equalsIgnoreCase("[LevelUp]")){  

To make sure when they right click the sign its the right sign. And when i used this, it didnt work. When i tried:

PHP:

if(s.getLine(0).equalsIgnoreCase("&1[LevelUp]")){  

It still didnt work. I've seen how essentials does it but it uses a weird format built into their essentials api.

 

Try changing this:

Code:

if(s.getLine(0).equalsIgnoreCase("&1[LevelUp]"))

To this:

Code:

if(s.getLine(0).equalsIgnoreCase(ChatColor.BLUE + "[LevelUp]"))

 

You could make it so it uses the Essentials API, and disables that feature if the server doesn't have Essentials like this:

Code:

 
Plugin e = getServer().getPluginManager().getPlugin("Essentials");
 
if (e != null) {
  //Essentials method
} else {
  event.getPlayer().sendMessage("This feature is disabled without Essentials!");
}
 

Also, it might be helpful if I could see more of your code, I can't see some of the things that might influence it there.

EDIT: Or what Taco said would probably work, he posted his while I was typing mine lol.

 

I recommend using
if(ChatColor.stripColor(s.getLine(0)).equalsIgnoreCase("[LevelUp]"))

That ignores all colors.

 

Thanks. i was thinking since it was a sign chat color wouldn't work, for obvious reasons.

Yeah that didnt work. Im using color on signs, not color in chat.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

try

Code:

String  str = s.getLine(0).replaceAll("(\u00A7$2([a-f0-9]))", "");
 
if(str.equalsIgnoreCase("[LevelUp]")){
 
 
}
 

note, im horrible with regex some im not entirely sure this will work

 

Its alright ill test this and get back to you

 

Milkywayz

ChatColor is a sort of global color enum (I think, could be wrong with my terms). So, no matter what you're using (Chat, Signs, Console) you will always use ChatColor. So therefore, @Pandemoneus was right when he said to use:

Code:java

if(ChatColor.stripColor(s.getLine(0)).equalsIgnoreCase("[LevelUp]"))

 

If everything fails I would just System.out.println(s.getLine(0)) to see what you are actually getting from your sign.

 

Yeah I tested that and it still didnt work

 

Mind posting your whole code and the System.out.println you get on the console?

 

Here is a working regex for removing ascii colors:

Code:

.replaceAll("(\\u001B\\[[0-9][0-9]?m)","");

Hope that helps...