fix LoTW spot prefixes in comment text

diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index e2c01571d9b393a14eb3e9978174725b63b8fc8b..37e64c1638183ad1bf7b7eb41a2bb0738ce8f9cf 100644 (file)
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+22Jan06=======================================================================
+1. Remove +<prefix> from the fronts of comments to fix LoTW dupes.
 18Jan06=======================================================================
 1. Fix spurious announce from previous year appearing in sh/ann.
 15Jan06=======================================================================

diff --git a/perl/Spot.pm b/perl/Spot.pm
index 5ea169f2f48021be9b6d37224feb32dc7737e63e..4d87be3723e2317d8b7d6718da37dd9bfb66ed55 100644 (file)
--- a/perl/Spot.pm
+++ b/perl/Spot.pm
@@ -407,6 +407,7 @@ sub dup
                }
        }
        my $otext = $text;
+       $text =~ s/^\+\w+\s*//;                 # remove leading LoTW callsign
        $text = pack("C*", map {$_ & 127} unpack("C*", $text));
        $text =~ s/\s{2,}[\dA-Z]?[A-Z]\d?$// if length $text > 24;
        $text =~ s/[^\w]//g;