fix LoTW spot prefixes in comment text

[spider.git] / perl / Spot.pm

diff --git a/perl/Spot.pm b/perl/Spot.pm
index 5ea169f2f48021be9b6d37224feb32dc7737e63e..4d87be3723e2317d8b7d6718da37dd9bfb66ed55 100644 (file)
--- a/perl/Spot.pm
+++ b/perl/Spot.pm
@@ -407,6 +407,7 @@ sub dup
                }
        }
        my $otext = $text;
+       $text =~ s/^\+\w+\s*//;                 # remove leading LoTW callsign
        $text = pack("C*", map {$_ & 127} unpack("C*", $text));
        $text =~ s/\s{2,}[\dA-Z]?[A-Z]\d?$// if length $text > 24;
        $text =~ s/[^\w]//g;