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Item7266: Plugin occasionally returns blank quote or incorrectly uses table header as a quote

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Extension RandomQuotePlugin Enhancement New   n/a  

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This was reported in RandomQuotePluginDev:

I think I've found some small bugs in the way the plugin reads the random quotes page. It seems to be leaving a "\n" following the %STARTINCLUDE%, resulting in a empty quote. Since the size of the quotes list is off, it also allows a quote for the table header to be displayed. These are both quickly seen if you have a quotes page with 1 entry.
-- SethTaplin - 30 Jul 2003

and AurelioAHeckert provided a fix which was never incorporated into the code.

I make a little change that works:
in the line 312:
was:
    # remove everything before %STARTINCLUDE% and after %STOPINCLUDE%
    $topicText =~ s/.*?%STARTINCLUDE%//s;
now is:
    # remove everything before %STARTINCLUDE% and after %STOPINCLUDE%
    $topicText =~ s/.*?%STARTINCLUDE%\n[^\n]*\n//s;
and in the line 319:
was:
    srand(time ^ 22/7);
    my $quote = int (rand(@quotes)) + 1;
now is:
    srand(time ^ 22/7);
    my $quote = int (rand(@quotes));
Now the plugin gets only the quotes (whithout the frist table line) and do not exist the blank quote.
-- AurelioAHeckert - 04 Apr 2005

Apparently the line numbers mentioned by AurelioAHeckert have since changed. I made the changes to my own copy of RandomQuotePlugin.pm as shown below:

% diff RandomQuotePlugin.pm RandomQuotePlugin.pmDIST
106c106
<    $topicText =~ s/.*?%STARTINCLUDE%\n[^\n]*\n//s;
---
>    $topicText =~ s/.*?%STARTINCLUDE%//s;
112c112
<    my $quote = int (rand(@quotes));
---
>    my $quote = int (rand(@quotes)) + 1;

-- TWiki:Main/VickiBrown - 2013-05-23

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Summary Plugin occasionally returns blank quote or incorrectly uses table header as a quote
ReportedBy TWiki:Main.VickiBrown
Codebase

SVN Range TWiki-5.1.3-trunk, Mon, 13 May 2013, build 25914
AppliesTo Extension
Component RandomQuotePlugin
Priority Enhancement
CurrentState New
WaitingFor

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TargetRelease n/a
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Topic revision: r1 - 2013-05-23 - VickiBrown
 
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