Subj : Outbound Report
To   : mark lewis
From : Sean Rima
Date : Mon Jun 15 2020 22:57:36

   Hello mark!

15 Jun 20 16:00, you wrote to me:
 SR>> Chnage line 312 from
 SR>>        name=${name/#}
 SR>>        to
 SR>>        name=${name#?}

 SR>> I haven't checked yet but I am assuming lines 308 and other will
 SR>> also need changing

 ml> i was trying to remove each one specifically but yes, it is possible
 ml> the script could check if the character in the string's first position
 ml> is one of the characters we need to strip... if it is, then simply
 ml> strip whatever is there instead of attempting to strip the specific
 ml> character... that would squash all of that section into one smaller
 ml> code block with a longer if match...

 ml> i've been thinking about it and don't yet have a good idea...
 ml> searching didn't turn up much that i wasn't already aware of... what
 ml> kind of concerns me is the '#' being seen as a comment in the code and
 ml> being ignored instead of being stripped but i don't see any searches
 ml> turning up the '#' as a special character...

 ml> admitedly, i didn't actually test all of these... my tosser uses only
 ml> some of the characters listed but i wanted to code to be more complete
 ml> and check for all of them...

 ml> FWIW: this also found a comment typo (FTSC-5005) which should be
 ml> fixed, too :lol:

I think the issue is that bash changed something and broke the code. I am holding off with my point echomail, which is basically the same groups here anyway. I will throw a fileecho into the mix and see what happens

Sean


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