Re: rewriting the getname() function again

From: Paul Haldane <Paul.Haldane_at_newcastle.ac.uk_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 17:09:05 +0100 (GMT)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95-960729.990416170333.18469H-100000_at_carr6.ncl.ac.uk>

I have a from line that I reckon the parser handles wrongly

• IN: "Paul Haldane (I'm only doing this to show you how)" <Paul.Haldane_at_xx.yy.zz> FOUND <> FOUND () EMAIL: Paul.Haldane_at_xx.yy.zz COMMENT: I'm only doing this to show you how

I think the COMMENT should be

        Paul Haldane (I'm only doing this to show you how)

Actually, I've just found another one - same problem

• IN: "Xxxx Yyyyyy 7, Ccccccccccc Terrace, Jjjjjjjj Newcastle upon Tyne. Tel XXXX-XXXXXXX (home), XXXX-XXXXXXX (surgery)" <Xxxx_at_Yyyyyyyy.Zzzzz.co.uk> FOUND <> FOUND () EMAIL: Xxxx_at_Yyyyyyyy.Zzzzz.co.uk COMMENT: home

Paul

On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm aware that the name/email parser in hypermail is still very lame. I wrote
> a new one a few versions ago, but I definitely had the wrong approach and
> just made another bad and buggy implementation.
>
> I attach two files for test and comments. One is my test-parser (C source)
> and the other one is a file filled with From:-lines that may appear.
>
> I would be very interested to hear from you if you can get it to fail on a
> From: line that may appear.
>
> If you have improvements or have a better parser, feel free to submit
> changes, suggestions and ideas!

... Received on Fri 16 Apr 1999 06:34:42 PM GMT