On 30 Sep 2019, at 17:21, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users <[email protected]>
wrote:
> No; whitespace is special around list elements (Ch 6, section 20) so
> there would be Issues in handling space as a separator.
Yes, I expected as much; I was pitching for something I may have missed but I
hadn't. So...
> If you're happy there won't be any adjacent spaces, just
> ${listcount:${tr {Fred J Bloggs}{ }{:}}}
That's the alternative way (although I'll most likely use a different separator
as we have occasional display names with colons in!).
> - however, for this untrusted data, perhaps tidying it up by
> taking the tr result and using filter with a condition for
> nonempty, would be wise.
It's being pre-processed already to remove quite a lot (honorifics, for
example, company names, things in brackets) so by the time it gets to this
point it should ideally be just names and/or initials - and it won't be empty,
but thanks for the reminder.
Ta
Graeme
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