To take full advantage of the 'replies' functionality in CBDQ, you might want to use something called RegEx (Regular Expressions).

The instructions on CBDQ have this info but it's a bit opaque: "The keys are specified with RegExp syntax." What does this mean?

Well, let's start with the example that you want to look for a combination of two words in a tweet directed at your bot, like "why" and "me", but you don't care if there are other words (or characters) between them.

You just need to put something weird between the two terms: a period and an asterisk, like this:

why.*me

This will only match the terms in that order however, so if you wanted it to match tweets that included "me" before "why", you'd need to work around that — an easy way would be to use multiple lines like this:

{
 "why.*me":"hello there!",
 "me.*why":"whatever"
}

Note also that this is cAsE sENsiTivE, so it would not match things like "Why Me".

Slightly longer answer: The "." matches to any character (but NOT line breaks, unfortunately) and the "*" means that there can be multiple of whatever preceded it, in this case ".", so the two together will match pretty much any sequence of characters (except for line breaks).

If you wanted to handle line breaks AND both orders in a single regex, it starts to get complicated, you can use \s for an empty space (including a line break) and the logical OR "|" something like this:

"(why(.|\\s)*me)|(me(.|\\s)*why)"

This is called "regular expressions," and it is very powerful! If you're interested, check out detailed explanations HERE and HERE, and try typing them in and testing them out HERE, which looks like this: