From 9a2d59bd76feedcdab65a3f6f91cd6552aeabdac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dms <dms@c11ca15a-4712-0410-83d8-924469b57eb5>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 13:42:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] - 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
---
 src/Factoids/Update.pl | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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");
-- 
2.39.2