[aprssig] spaces in object names PROPOSAL

[Steve Dimse]

The object name is 9 characters long, but as is stated, trailing  
spaces are removed. Maybe someone else would care to phrase that  
better. Understand this is not anything new. Almost everyone has been  
removing the trailing spaces before doing comparisons.

Steve K4HG

On Aug 13, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:

> 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
>
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