[PATCH v2] lib: Fix name reordering to handle commas without spaces

[Tomi Ollila]

On Tue, Feb 26 2013, Adam Wolfe Gordon <awg+notmuch at xvx.ca> wrote:

> Notmuch automatically re-orders names of the format "Last, First" to
> "First Last" when the associated email address is
> First.Last at example.com. But, if a name is of the format "Last,First"
> then notmuch will format the name as "irst Last". Handle any number of
> spaces after the comma, including none.
> ---
>
> Good idea, Tomi. This version handles any number of spaces.

LGTM.

Tomi

>
> lib/thread.cc |   12 ++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/thread.cc b/lib/thread.cc
> index e976d64..ce6b0ef 100644
> --- a/lib/thread.cc
> +++ b/lib/thread.cc
> @@ -186,8 +186,16 @@ _thread_cleanup_author (notmuch_thread_t *thread,
>      if (comma && strlen(comma) > 1) {
>  	/* let's assemble what we think is the correct name */
>  	lname = comma - author;
> -	fname = strlen(author) - lname - 2;
> -	strncpy(clean_author, comma + 2, fname);
> +
> +	/* Skip all the spaces after the comma */
> +	fname = strlen(author) - lname - 1;
> +	comma += 1;
> +	while (*comma == ' ') {
> +	    fname -= 1;
> +	    comma += 1;
> +	}
> +	strncpy(clean_author, comma, fname);
> +
>  	*(clean_author+fname) = ' ';
>  	strncpy(clean_author + fname + 1, author, lname);
>  	*(clean_author+fname+1+lname) = '\0';
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
>
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