[tech] TLA script kinda broken for people with hyphens in their name

Alastair Irvine alastair at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Sun Apr 22 17:26:54 AWST 2018


On Tue, 07 February, 2017 at 12:29:31AM +0800, Frames wrote:
> I just added    [LCY] to the TLA script.
> It is more broken than expected with hyphens in peoples names.
> (Find it yourself which `which tla` if you don't know already)
> 
> Basically to make it work, I had to just remove the hypen entirely, but 
> with that constraint seems to work perfectly.
> It is scary kinda bash+awk+sed

Sounds like fun; I've added a to-do to have a look.

> I don't want to touch it til it is in version control.

Does the UCC have a git server or a GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket account?

> Also I am busy.
> I might touch it at some point.

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