[aprssig] spaces in object names PROPOSAL

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

Steve Dimse wrote:
>
> Object names consist of 9 printable ASCII characters (including 
> space). The first must be non-space, and no more than one consecutive 
> non-alphanumeric character is allowed. The name is padded out with 
> spaces, these trailing spaces are not considered part of the final 
> object name. In other words, the object "ABC      " matches with a 
> station "ABC" already heard by a client program.
How can it consist of 9 printable ASCII characters, but yet "ABC      " 
match "ABC"?  The name is either 9 characters or shorter, but it can't 
be both (at least, not in my programming universe).

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Re-entering the discussion