Re: [vwrap] Removing first name / last name assumptions?

[Carlo Wood <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 01:41:28PM -0700, Meadhbh Hamrick wrote:
> we have two existing implementations from organizations who have
> stated they would like to use this protocol. both use two strings at
> the moment. both COULD be converted to use a single identifier, and
> probably should, but one of them has the problem that the data is not
> "clean" and it would be difficult to find a programmatic mechanism to
> convert two strings to a single string without ambiguity.

I don't believe this.

Does Second Life have *ANY* login name that has a space in
it's LAST name? If so, please tell me which and allow me to
find it in the People Search in world.

If not, then your problem is solved: search for the first
space from the back, that is your separator.

Here is the implementation, let me know if you need a special
license or a transfer of copyright.


#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
  if (argc != 2)
  {
    printf("Usage: %s agent-ID-string\n", argv[0]);
    return;
  }
  char* space = strrchr(argv[1], ' ');
  if (!space)
  {
    printf("This is not a valid Second Life name\n");
    return;
  }

  /* Start of EXTRA code LL needs to add to support VWRAP */
  size_t len = space - argv[1];
  char* firstname = argv[1];
  argv[1][len] = 0;
  char* lastname = firstname + len + 1;
  /* End of EXTRA code LL needs to add to support VWRAP */

  printf("Firstname = \"%s\", lastname = \"%s\"\n", firstname, lastname);
}


Example output:

$ ./a.out "abcde,fghi.jkl Linden"
Firstname = "abcde,fghi.jkl", lastname = "Linden"

-- 
Carlo Wood <[e-mail]>