* Strip preceding/trailing blanks from new character names (#524)

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/char/char.c b/src/char/char.c
index 5de186c..6b6b1f1 100644
--- a/src/char/char.c
+++ b/src/char/char.c
@@ -726,6 +726,31 @@ int mmo_char_sync_timer(int tid, unsigned int tick, int id, int data) {
 	return 0;
 }
 
+//----------------------------------------------------
+// Remove trailing whitespace from a name
+//----------------------------------------------------
+static void remove_trailing_blanks(char *name)
+{
+        char *tail = name + strlen(name) - 1;
+
+        while (tail > name
+               && *tail == ' ')
+                *tail-- = 0;
+}
+
+//----------------------------------------------------
+// Remove prefix whitespace from a name
+//----------------------------------------------------
+static void remove_prefix_blanks(char *name)
+{
+        char *dst = name;
+        char *src = name;
+
+        while (*src == ' ') // find first nonblank
+                ++src;
+        while (*dst++ = *src++); // `strmove'
+}
+
 //-----------------------------------
 // Function to create a new character
 //-----------------------------------
@@ -743,6 +768,10 @@ int make_new_char(int fd, unsigned char *dat) {
 		return -1;
 	}
 
+        // Eliminate whitespace
+        remove_trailing_blanks((char *)dat);
+        remove_prefix_blanks((char *)dat);
+
 	// check lenght of character name
 	if (strlen(dat) < 4) {
 		char_log("Make new char error (character name too small): (connection #%d, account: %d, name: '%s')." RETCODE,