From 7159e7f062260018aa6d77a5759fce5b3b6ea994 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: agnescameron <agnesfcameron@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 12:31:42 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fixed map problem

---
 src/App.js | 20 ++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/App.js b/src/App.js
index 5ba5a90..0434a5d 100644
--- a/src/App.js
+++ b/src/App.js
@@ -60,12 +60,18 @@ class App extends Component {
     }
   }
 
-  processResponse = (text) => {
+  processResponse = async (text) => {
+
+    let messages;
+    //check if message pure punctuation, let it pass if so
+    if(text.match(/[a-zA-Z\s]/g)){
+      //breaks sentences into different messages
+      messages = text
+        .match(/[^.!?]+[.!?]*/g)
+        .map(str => str.trim());
+    }
+    else messages = text;
 
-    //breaks sentences into different messages
-    const messages = text
-      .match(/[^.!?]+[.!?]*/g)
-      .map(str => str.trim());
     this.botQueue = this.botQueue.concat(messages);
 
     // start processing bot queue
@@ -81,7 +87,9 @@ class App extends Component {
 
     if(!preProcess){
         runSample(text, this.state.currentBot)
-        .then( botResponse => { this.processResponse(botResponse); })
+        .then( 
+          botResponse => { 
+            this.processResponse(botResponse); })
     }
     else this.processResponse(preProcess);
   }