From: dms <dms@c11ca15a-4712-0410-83d8-924469b57eb5>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 13:42:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: - allow SARing of factoids on _long_ factoids providing the new string
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9a2d59bd76feedcdab65a3f6f91cd6552aeabdac;p=infobot.git

- allow SARing of factoids on _long_ factoids providing the new string
  is shorter than the subst string.


git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/infobot/code/trunk/blootbot@222 c11ca15a-4712-0410-83d8-924469b57eb5
---

diff --git a/src/Factoids/Update.pl b/src/Factoids/Update.pl
index 0d67869..334a72b 100644
--- a/src/Factoids/Update.pl
+++ b/src/Factoids/Update.pl
@@ -105,8 +105,12 @@ sub update {
 
 	    # max length check again.
 	    if (length($rhs) > $param{'maxDataSize'}) {
-		&performAddressedReply("that's too long");
-		return $noreply;
+		if (length($rhs) > length($exists)) {
+		    &performAddressedReply("that's too long");
+		    return $noreply;
+		} else {
+		    &status("Update: new length is still longer than maxDataSize but less than before, we'll let it go.");
+		}
 	    }
 
 	    &performAddressedReply("okay");