Subj : system.matchuser() not finding user by real name
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Aug 15 2019 08:05 pm

  Re: system.matchuser() not finding user by real name
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Aug 15 2019 07:41 pm

 >   Re: system.matchuser() not finding user by real name
 >   By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Aug 15 2019 07:08 pm
 >
 >  Ni> I'm running a Synchronet Windows build from August 1st. With my reader,
 >  Ni> I forwarded a message in a sub-board to myself on my BBS, and it used
 >  Ni> my real name for the 'from' header field. With my reader, I try to
 >  Ni> reply to it, and my reader calls system.matchuser() to get the user
 >  Ni> number to reply to the appropriate person (in this case, I'm replying
 >  Ni> to myself, doing some testing). Apparently, system.matchuser() is
 >  Ni> unable to find the user record with my real name - system.matchuser()
 >  Ni> is returning 0 with my real name. Is that expected?
 >
 > Now that I think about it, I suppose that behavior might be expected.  It's
 > possible there might be multiple users who happen to have the same real
 > name. I guess I just hadn't noticed (or hadn't remembered) that behavior
 > before.

Yeah, that's intentional: matchuser() only matches the user's name/alias, not user's real names. If you want to search for real names or other field values in the user base, you can use system.matchuserdata().

                                            digital man

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