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Posted: **Tue Aug 23, 2016 9:39 am**

Hey,

Im currently on thinking about adding a "player connect/disconnect announcer" and thought about what fixes are needed since players can completly modify their names.

After abit of google research I created a function which returns a save name which i can use in Saytext2

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unsafeLetters = [r"\a", r"\b", r"\f", r"\n", r"\r", r"\t", r"\v", r"%s"]
def getSaveString(string):
    """ Strips colorcodes and newlinecharacters"""
    newstring = ""
    for x in string:
        if ord(x) > 8:
            newstring += x
    newstring = repr(newstring)
    for x in unsafeLetters:
        newstring = newstring.replace(x, r"\\"+x)
    newstring = eval(newstring)
    return newstring

I havent tested it yet. + I dont know what happens when a player joins with "%s"

Posted: **Tue Aug 23, 2016 5:44 pm**

Wouldn't it be easier to allow only certain characters? Would be better to allow things you know that there are not harmful, eg a-zA-Z0-9-_ and so on. Is called regular expressions and should work beautiful with python :)

Posted: **Tue Aug 23, 2016 6:10 pm**

If you're worried about unsafe characters, you may also want to replace many unicode characters.

Posted: **Wed Aug 24, 2016 12:45 am**

I guess there are no other unsafe characters than those above. Maybe %s needs to be fixed kinda, seems it doesnt work with the top function.

Lets take an example connect message.

PlayerName: %s test

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Player %s test connected from Reserved.

Using this in a SayText2 message, just prints me

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Player

So how could I actually prevent this message to get corrupted without replacing %s

Posted: **Wed Aug 24, 2016 5:22 pm**

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from filters.players import PlayerIter
from messages import SayText2


def load():
    for player in PlayerIter('human'):
        SayText2("Player {} connected from Reserved.".format(player.name)).send(player.index)
        break

Works fine for me.
As for color codes, I haven't been able to include "\x07" byte nor, for example, "\x02" byte in my steam nickname. It was just stripped. I tried both desktop app and web interface.

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