[RTTY] Using "DE" is not needed (and perhaps should be abandonned) for any software to recognize callsigns.

[Peter Laws]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 08:41, Alex <alex at kr1st.com> wrote:

> If software would use Regular Expressions, which have been around for
> decades, then it could find callsigns without any requirement of the "DE"
> preceding a callsign or requiring a character,  like a space, to trail a
> callsign. This is not some sort of advanced programming, it's a well-known
> and well understood mechanism to look for patterns in a string (which all a
> callsign in a text really is).


N1MM has done this for the 7 years I've used it.  I'm sure it's not
the only one.

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