Text Field with required as the only criteria

Is it possible to make a text field question and have the criteria be "required" as in it just cannot be left blank, but not specifically evaluated against the answer field?

In the examples on the quiz questions configuration, there is an example of textarea with no specified answer, but when I tried it as a required field, in the results, the question always evaluates to wrong.

I'm using a plugin to require the field only under certain circumstances, and I can probably work around this by catching the response and setting the answer to be equal to the response, but it seems like there should be, or it would be helpful to have a notation for "required" as in just not blank, and perhaps a notation for not these exact words, but "must contain these words". That second is just a feature suggestion.

I can't imagine a textarea for an answer (because it holds more text) in which the exact verbatim "correct answer" could be known in advance, except of course if you asks something like, "What were John Smith's exact words in his interview on xx/xx/2024?" or "What is the exact opening paragraph of...?"

even on the text box answers,you limited to asking questions with one word answers, so I was thinking it would be beneficial to have 2 other options: Not blank, and Contains Word or words.

On our quiz, we are asking people if they know what kind of reservation they have? That was part of my efforts to make a plugin, now completed, to modify the answer to match what the person's actual reservation is. The next question asks, "If you are bringing a camper, please describe your exact setup and it's length. e.g. pickup truck with a 30 foot trailer total length 45 feet."

Putting that in the extra fields didn't really work for us and part of my plugin removes that question for camper who are "Tent Only", but I had to jump through some hoops to make the system evaluate whatever the user put in as the correct answer, AND, I had to also use a system of replacing commas with || and then switching them back because commas broke the evaluation process because you allow comma separated options for answers.

My suggestion would be to refactor it so that:

1. Make it so, if the not radio/checkbox question is required but the answer field in the question is blank, and non-empty answer is correct.
2. Make a notation like [contains]Blah Blah Blah[/contains] so that if, whatever is in the answer field contains "Blah Blah Blah", it will evaluate to correct.
3. Use something other than commas to separate correct answer options on the not radio/checkbox questions, at least for text areas where it should be assumed longer text strings will be entered, so that commas can be in the answer, or add a means to escape commas in the answer.

Just my thoughts. It was fun making the plugin and everything is working great for us.

Thanks!
Steven

I understand. I did not use the extra fields for a couple of reasons. We're only showing that question to certain users, and if it is shown to them we want it after a specific quiz question.

The one reason I would offer to taking on the comma in an answer issue is that, if you allow a textarea as an answer input field, it implies the ability for the respondent to write a more than one word answer, like a sentence, which often contain commas.

To maintain backward compatibility, you could take the same approach I used with my plugin. Rather than replace the separator for different possible answers in the component (the comma) instead tackle the issue from the other end:  a) provide a means to escape commas in an answer, like the answer can be "this\, or that, those\, or these"; b) replace commas in the answer given by the quiz taker with something else like ||, and then replace the || back to a comma after the answer is evaluated.