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   PID: SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
   I'm attempting to read the optional user fields from an MPL script, but while   
   I have it "working", the way I'm doing it is exceedingly kludgey and there are   
   still issues. It was suggested on Reddit that I might be running into a bug. I   
   wonder if someone    
   can enlighten me.   
      
   So, paring the script down to just the relevant bit, I expected to be able to   
   use something like this:   
      
   Uses User   
   While GetUser(CurrentUser) Do Begin   
      Writeln(UserOpts[1])   
   CurrentUser:= CurrentUser+1   
   End   
         
   In order to display a list of the 2nd optional field for all users. However,   
   no matter what index I put into UserOpts[1], I get fairly muddled results.   
   UserOpts[7] gives me the 2nd user field with the first five characters cut   
   off. Eventually I wound up    
   using this:   
      
     Writeln(copy(striplow(UserOpts[0]),2,length(striplow(UserOpts[0]))-1))   
      
   The reason I went with that is that polling UserOpts[0] reliably included the   
   entire second optional field but with a bunch of garbage ahead of it, and that   
   was my kludgey way of working around that.   
      
   The continuing issues, though: If someone edits their entry for the optional   
   field to something shorter, the data past the end remains. So if that field   
   contained abcdef and I changed it to xyz, then ran the script, for that user   
   it would become xyzdef.    
   If I open users.dat in a hex editor and zero out the offending characters it   
   fixes it, but this is clearly not how I'm supposed to be doing any of this. :)   
      
   Is there another way I should be indexing into the UserOpts array? Or is there   
   a bug in how the script is retrieving the data? Any ideas?   
      
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