not-so-wip now.

code/modules/mob/living/carbon/human/say.dm

@@ -87,30 +87,22 @@
 /mob/living/carbon/human/proc/forcesay(list/append) //this proc is at the bottom of the file because quote fuckery makes notepad++ cri
 	if(stat == CONSCIOUS)
 		if(client)
-			var/virgin = 1	//has the text been modified yet?
 			var/temp = winget(client, "input", "text")
-			if(findtextEx(temp, "Say \"", 1, 7) && length(temp) > 5)	//"case sensitive means
+			var/say_starter = "Say \"" //"
+			if(findtextEx(temp, say_starter, 1, length(say_starter) + 1) && length(temp) > length(say_starter))	//case sensitive means
 
-				temp = replacetext(temp, ";", "")	//general radio
+				temp = trim_left(copytext(temp, length(say_starter + 1)))
+				temp = replacetext(temp, ";", "", 1, 2)	//general radio
+				while(trim_left(temp)[1] == ":")	//dept radio again (necessary)
+					temp = copytext_char(trim_left(temp), 3)
 
-				if(findtext(trim_left(temp), ":", 6, 7))	//dept radio
-					temp = copytext(trim_left(temp), 8)
-					virgin = 0
-
-				if(virgin)
-					temp = copytext(trim_left(temp), 6)	//normal speech
-					virgin = 0
-
-				while(findtext(trim_left(temp), ":", 1, 2))	//dept radio again (necessary)
-					temp = copytext(trim_left(temp), 3)
-
-				if(findtext(temp, "*", 1, 2))	//emotes
+				if(temp[1] == "*")	//emotes
 					return
 
 				var/trimmed = trim_left(temp)
 				if(length(trimmed))
 					if(append)
-						temp += pick(append)
+						trimmed += pick(append)
 
-					say(temp)
+					say(trimmed)
 				winset(client, "input", "text=[null]")

code/modules/mob/living/silicon/ai/say.dm

@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@
 	..()
 
 /mob/living/silicon/ai/get_message_mode(message)
-	if(copytext(message, 1, 3) in list(":h", ":H", ".h", ".H", "#h", "#H"))
+	var/static/regex/holopad_finder = regex(@"[:.#][hH]")
+	if(holopad_finder.Find(message, 1, 1))
 		return MODE_HOLOPAD
 	else
 		return ..()

code/modules/mob/living/silicon/pai/personality.dm

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 */
 
 /datum/paiCandidate/proc/savefile_path(mob/user)
-	return "data/player_saves/[copytext(user.ckey, 1, 2)]/[user.ckey]/pai.sav"
+	return "data/player_saves/[user.ckey[1]]/[user.ckey]/pai.sav"
 
 /datum/paiCandidate/proc/savefile_save(mob/user)
 	if(IsGuestKey(user.key))

code/modules/mob/living/simple_animal/parrot.dm

@@ -208,8 +208,8 @@
 				ears.forceMove(drop_location())
 				ears = null
 				for(var/possible_phrase in speak)
-					if(copytext(possible_phrase,1,3) in GLOB.department_radio_keys)
-						possible_phrase = copytext(possible_phrase,3)
+					if(copytext_char(possible_phrase, 2, 3) in GLOB.department_radio_keys)
+						possible_phrase = copytext_char(possible_phrase, 3)
 
 	//Adding things to inventory
 	else if(href_list["add_inv"])
@@ -419,8 +419,8 @@
 						if(prob(50))
 							useradio = 1
 
-						if((copytext(possible_phrase,1,2) in GLOB.department_radio_prefixes) && (copytext(possible_phrase,2,3) in GLOB.department_radio_keys))
-							possible_phrase = "[useradio?pick(available_channels):""][copytext(possible_phrase,3)]" //crop out the channel prefix
+						if((possible_phrase[1] in GLOB.department_radio_prefixes) && (copytext_char(possible_phrase, 2, 3) in GLOB.department_radio_keys))
+							possible_phrase = "[useradio?pick(available_channels):""][copytext_char(possible_phrase, 3)]" //crop out the channel prefix
 						else
 							possible_phrase = "[useradio?pick(available_channels):""][possible_phrase]"
 
@@ -428,8 +428,8 @@
 
 				else //If we have no headset or channels to use, dont try to use any!
 					for(var/possible_phrase in speak)
-						if((copytext(possible_phrase,1,2) in GLOB.department_radio_prefixes) && (copytext(possible_phrase,2,3) in GLOB.department_radio_keys))
-							possible_phrase = copytext(possible_phrase,3) //crop out the channel prefix
+						if((possible_phrase[1] in GLOB.department_radio_prefixes) && (copytext_char(possible_phrase, 2, 3) in GLOB.department_radio_keys))
+							possible_phrase = copytext_char(possible_phrase, 3) //crop out the channel prefix
 						newspeak.Add(possible_phrase)
 				speak = newspeak