[aprssig] spaces in object names

[Pierre Thibaudeau]

Yesterday, 23:09 -0400, Steve Dimse wrote:

>    OK, I still don't understand what you mean by considering all nine
>    characters significant but you ignore trailing spaces.

Because the trailing spaces are irrelevant. Remember that the object name 
is fixed length 9 caracters, with space fillers. This means that there is 
no object name beeing transmitted as "VE2PRT"  or "VE2PRT  "; they both 
are transmitted as "VE2PRT   " (with exactly 3 spaces at the end).

In another posting, you ask:

>    Does any system make automated use of the objects being transmitted 
>    on APRS?

I do store APRS data in a database, with object name beeing a primary key. 
My system uses object names as is, so yes, multiple consecutive embedded 
spaces are significant.

'73 - Pierre
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Pierre Thibaudeau
VA2RKA/VA2RKB/VE2RIO/VE2RVR/VE2RQF/VE2RTO/VE2LKL/VE2TXD sysadmin