From bccdef2e50f1ed52998d9a5f542b7445839f6039 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: paul019 <39464035+paul019@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 12:21:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Improve parsing of names

---
 src/api/parsers.py  | 10 ++++++++++
 tests/playground.py |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/api/parsers.py b/src/api/parsers.py
index d410d0c0..04ad9904 100644
--- a/src/api/parsers.py
+++ b/src/api/parsers.py
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ def parse_name(name: str) -> str:
     parsed_name = ""
     next_chat_upper = False
 
+    ignored_chars = set()
+
     for char in name:
         if char.isalpha():
             if next_chat_upper:
@@ -51,6 +53,14 @@ def parse_name(name: str) -> str:
             next_chat_upper = True
         elif char in [" ", "_", "-"]:
             next_chat_upper = True
+        else:
+            ignored_chars.add(char)
+
+    if len(ignored_chars) > 0:
+        print(f"Invalid characters in name were ignored: {', '.join(ignored_chars)}")
+
+    if parsed_name == "":
+        raise ValueError("After ignoring invalid characters, the specified name is empty.")
 
     return parsed_name
 
diff --git a/tests/playground.py b/tests/playground.py
index 47fdcd8b..cc2c2c50 100644
--- a/tests/playground.py
+++ b/tests/playground.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 wiz.res("f", "1.0e1", 25e-1).print()
 # f: 1.0
 
-wiz.res("a", 42.0).print()
+wiz.res("g", 42.0).print()
 
 # TODO: support for int values
 # wiz.res("a", 42) # not working as 42 is an int and not a float