lib: Fix name reordering to handle commas without spaces

[notmuch] / lib / thread.cc

diff --git a/lib/thread.cc b/lib/thread.cc
index c126aac8cc8b945e9018f7505f7910174c83535e..50bdef11aa8cba0f2240a142052a2ee249d74df1 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/thread.cc
+++ b/lib/thread.cc
@@ -190,8 +190,16 @@ _thread_cleanup_author (notmuch_thread_t *thread,
     if (comma && strlen(comma) > 1) {
        /* let's assemble what we think is the correct name */
        lname = comma - author;
-       fname = strlen(author) - lname - 2;
-       strncpy(clean_author, comma + 2, fname);
+
+       /* Skip all the spaces after the comma */
+       fname = strlen(author) - lname - 1;
+       comma += 1;
+       while (*comma == ' ') {
+           fname -= 1;
+           comma += 1;
+       }
+       strncpy(clean_author, comma, fname);
+
        *(clean_author+fname) = ' ';
        strncpy(clean_author + fname + 1, author, lname);
        *(clean_author+fname+1+lname) = '\0';