----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Kitabjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 11:46 PM
Subject: (RADIATOR) stripping spaces off username
> We have a surprising number of "No such user" failures which appear to
be
> caused by leading or trailing spaces around the username. In Unix, I
would
> fix this as:
>
> echo " dave " | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ *$//'
>
> Since I don't know perl, I'm not sure how to test this without going
live,
> so I was wondering if someone could confirm the proper perl/radiator
> syntax. My guess is:
>
> RewriteUsername s/^ *//
> RewriteUsername s/ *$//
>
> Is this correct? Thanks all! (Btw, how *would* I test this with perl?)
>
no, it's not quite correct.
it should be:
RewriteUsername s/^ //
RewriteUsername s/ $//
a simple little perl script to test your regexes would be something like
the following:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$regex1 = '^ ';
$regex2 = ' $';
$username = ' someusernamewithspaces ';
$username =~ s/$regex1//;
$username =~ s/$regex2//;
print "Username: '$username'\n";
and it should print out the following:
Username: 'someusernamewithspaces'
hope this helps :)
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Joel Michael
System Administrator
Diggy Internet Services
90 Petrie Terrace
Brisbane Qld 4000
Australia
Ph: +61 7 3367 3555
Fax: +61 7 3367 3544
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