Function DefineEngineFunction

Engine/source/app/game.cpp:94–146

static const U32 MaxPlayerNameLength = 16;
DefineEngineFunction( strToPlayerName, const char*, (const char* ptr ), , "strToPlayerName(string);" )
{

	// Strip leading spaces and underscores:
   while ( *ptr == ' ' || *ptr == '_' )
      ptr++;

   U32 len = dStrlen( ptr );
   if ( len )
   {
      char* ret = Con::getReturnBuffer( MaxPlayerNameLength + 1 );
      char* rptr = ret;
      ret[MaxPlayerNameLength - 1] = '\0';
      ret[MaxPlayerNameLength] = '\0';
      bool space = false;

      U8 ch;
      while ( *ptr && dStrlen( ret ) < MaxPlayerNameLength )
      {
         ch = (U8) *ptr;

         // Strip all illegal characters:
         if ( ch < 32 || ch == ',' || ch == '.' || ch == '\'' || ch == '`' )
         {
            ptr++;
            continue;
         }

         // Don't allow double spaces or space-underline combinations:
         if ( ch == ' ' || ch == '_' )
         {
            if ( space )
            {
               ptr++;
               continue;
            }
            else
               space = true;
         }
         else
            space = false;

         *rptr++ = *ptr;
         ptr++;
      }
      *rptr = '\0';

		//finally, strip out the ML text control chars...
		return GuiMLTextCtrl::stripControlChars(ret);
   }

	return( "" );
}

ConsoleFunctionGroupBegin( Platform , "General platform functions.");