Hello Michiel!   
      
   Wednesday October 01 2014 18:01, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Kees van Eeten:   
      
    KE>>  Should makenl_ng flag spaces in a node line as errors?   
      
    MvdV> Definitely! According to FTS-5000 it IS an error.   
      
   Agreed.   
      
    KE>> Should makenl_ng remove these spaces,   
      
    MvdV> Or replace them with an underscore?   
      
    KE>> probably a nono, as makenl should not apply automatic editing of   
    KE>> nodelist lines..   
      
    MvdV> Replacing with an underscore will most likely give the desired result   
    MvdV> in the name fields. removing spaces will most likely result in line   
    MvdV> that parses. Or it may produce another error.   
      
    MvdV> Perhaps it is better to let a human judge. But it definitely should be   
    MvdV> flagged as an error!   
      
   I just dug through the code.  Currently leading or trailing spaces in the   
   first 7 fields (keyword, number, name, location, sysop, telephone, baudrate)   
   of a nodelist line will be removed.  The issue here is an incorrect entry with   
   a space embedded in the flags field.  MakeNL has never done error checking on   
   the flags, which is why ERRFLAGS was developed in the first place.  I suppose   
   I could add basic error checking of the flags (probably limited to flagging   
   illegal characters such as spaces.)  Anything more extensive would probably   
   involve rewriting ERRFLAGS in C and merging it with MakeNL.  That is a project   
   that would require extensive amounts of time to code, test, and debug.  Given   
   that some of the current ZCs refuse to use ERRFLAGS, I don't imagine they   
   would want to have the equivalent added to MakeNL.   
      
   Regards,   
      
   Andrew   
      
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