From: dms <dms@c11ca15a-4712-0410-83d8-924469b57eb5>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:28:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: closed 17031 -- Fix up appending to factoids
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7eb241896fd742c40fc0a29d249ea0e4f944928d;p=infobot.git

closed 17031 -- Fix up appending to factoids


git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/infobot/code/trunk@36 c11ca15a-4712-0410-83d8-924469b57eb5
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diff --git a/blootbot/src/Factoids/Update.pl b/blootbot/src/Factoids/Update.pl
index de6cfa7..692d48d 100644
--- a/blootbot/src/Factoids/Update.pl
+++ b/blootbot/src/Factoids/Update.pl
@@ -78,9 +78,11 @@ sub update {
 			&status("orig factoid already had trailing symbol; not adding period.");
 			$rhs = $exists."  ".$rhs;
 		    }
-		} elsif ($exists =~ /\,\s*$/) {
+		} elsif ($exists =~ /[\,\.\-]\s*$/) {
+		    &VERB("U: current has trailing symbols; inserting whitespace + new.",2);
 		    $rhs = $exists." ".$rhs;
 		} elsif ($rhs =~ /^\./) {
+		    &VERB("U: new text has ^.; appending directly",2);
 		    $rhs = $exists.$rhs;
 		} else {
 		    $rhs = $exists.', or '.$rhs;