It's not badly coded parsing, its a failure on valves part to limit
specific characters in player names.
First it started off about not being able to kick players with quotes --
that is the problem this thread was started with and afaik it still
occurs. It's possibly unexpected behaviour.
Peter Kirby wrote:
> 2008/5/8 Mark Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> What processing engine? All they do to print a log is this:
>>
>> Log("%s<%d><%s>\n", name, id, steamId);
>>
>> So if there is a quote in the name it gets printed out.
>>
>
> You misunderstood. I am referring to the engine processing the log
> lines and parsing them into fields. If they are failing to handle
> quotes/other characters in the name, they're processing the line
> wrong. Simple as. Valve limiting characters would just mean the badly
> coded parsers would work fine.
>
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