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5:53 AM

room topic changed to SEDE - Stack Exchange Data Explorer: Discussion related to the usage of Stack Exchange's Data Explorer [ping-@rolfl-4-help]

rolfl

6:21 AM

@user2256866 You will have to add a lot more smarts to that to be able to parse and then reference the @UserName details from the actual comment text.

See this blog entry on the rules for how those things are done:

Blog - Stack Exchange: New, Improved Comments with @reply

Jeff Atwood on January 16, 2010

Stack Overflow didn’t always have post comments. The first comment ever was on this post by Michael Stum, and it was posted on September 6th, 2008. There have been continuous improvements to comments since they were originally rolled out:

Comments: Flags and votes Comments: Top n shown Comments: question owner is highlighted

Comments: Top n shown Comments: question owner is highlighted

Comments: question owner is highlighted

On top of that, the limitation on comment length was relaxed from the original 300 characters to 600 characters. There have been three additional improvements to comments recently, all by popular demand. …

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user2256866

1:18 PM

@rolfl : Thanks for the link !

rolfl

You're welcome.

I'm not going to volunteer to help write that logic for you, but, you should be able to do it relatively easily if you are only tracking back from a single comment. Do you know how to write a cursor?

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