Andy Fragen: Untitled post callback update.

I tweaked untitledPost for safety. Note that my last post is still untitled. If there are HTML tags in the first sentence, the post remains untitled.

on untitledPost (adrpost) {
  if not defined (adrpost^.title) {
    local(title)
    title = string(string.firstSentence (adrpost^.text))
    endMarks = {"!", "?"}
    for i = 1 to sizeOf(endMarks) {
      if title contains endMarks[i] {
        title = string.popSuffix (title,  endMarks[i])
        title = title + endMarks[i] } }
    if not string.wildcardMatch(title, "<*>") {
      adrpost^.title = title } } }

If anyone can tell me how to actually strip HTML tags (without resorting to brute force) from a string, I'll happily tweak it again.

This is a test of another tweak to untitledPost.

For those playing along at home, the answer was searchEngine.stripMarkup.

And here's the final script.

on untitledPost (adrpost) {
  if not defined (adrpost^.title) {
    local(title)
    title = string(string.firstSentence (adrpost^.text))
    endMarks = {"!", "?"}
    for i = 1 to sizeOf(endMarks) {
      if title contains endMarks[i] {
        title = string.popSuffix (title,  endMarks[i])
        title = title + endMarks[i] } }
    adrpost^.title = searchEngine.stripMarkup(title) } }

Thanks to Andy Fragen for the original.

You need a space after the period. Or firstSentence will pick up more than you expect!