Tony Moore  wrote on 25 Sep:
> 'Reported in CI build #' doesn't make it clear that the '#' should be
> omitted from the answer. If the '#' is included, Mantis posts an error.

Is "robust" the right word when I say I think software should be 
robust enough to anticipate such variations in user input and quietly 
take the bits it wants.
   (A pet peeve along this line is software that wants a bank-card 
number or a phone number and won't allow the user to type the spaces 
or hyphens or parentheses with which such long numbers are always 
printed on plastic cards or on paper in order to make them 
human-readable and human-checkable.)

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Jim Nagel                               www.archivemag.co.uk
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