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Shendare just discovered an issue with character names showing up in chat. Specifically names in native chat channels, e.g. "Soandso tells you". Those names are now links you can use to report the message as spam. So there's some hidden characters before and after, and that can cause some unexpected results.

For example, if a character had the below event setup and someone named "Bob" did a group tell, this would echo "6" instead of "3" because there's 2 hidden letters on the front and 1 after Bob's name.

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#turbo

#event Whatever "#1# tells the group, #*#"

Sub Event_Whatever(string Line, string Sender)
   /echo ${Sender.Length}
/return

I'm thinking this probably wouldn't usually cause problems, but if it is, you can filter the special characters out by including them in a more explicit event string, like this:

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#turbo

#event Whatever "1#1# tells the group, #*#"

Sub Main
   :Loop
      /doevents
      /delay 2
   /goto :Loop
/return

Sub Event_Whatever(string Line, string Sender)
   /echo cleanName: ${Sender}
   /echo nameLength: ${Sender.Length}
/return

Still considering a way to clean it up> May just leave it and let the more explicit events handle it, or maybe adding a String.Trim that would cut off leading/trailing special characters/whitespace. Suggestions are welcome.

Thanks for the work, I remember having to use stuff like .Left[X] and .Right[Y] to parse "between the lines" in the past.
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To be continued...