From 4a4e34a929db3bcef5c692d8c28e0467fdd91353 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lyx0 <66651385+lyx0@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 01:29:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add comments explaining funky logic

---
 cmd/bot/commands.go | 17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cmd/bot/commands.go b/cmd/bot/commands.go
index cc8030e..5dc52e1 100644
--- a/cmd/bot/commands.go
+++ b/cmd/bot/commands.go
@@ -8,14 +8,21 @@ import (
 )
 
 func (app *Application) AddCommand(name string, message twitch.PrivateMessage) {
-	// text1 := strings.Split(message.Message, name)
+	// prefixLength is the length of `()addcommand` plus +2 (for the space and zero based)
+	prefixLength := 14
 
-	text := message.Message[14+len(name) : len(message.Message)]
-	app.Logger.Infow("Message splits",
-		"Command Name:", name,
-		"Command Text:", text)
+	// Split the twitch message at the length of the prefix + the length of the name of the command.
+	//      prefixLength |name| text
+	//      0123456789012|4567|
+	// e.g. ()addcommand dank FeelsDankMan
+	//      |            snip ^           |
+	text := message.Message[prefixLength+len(name) : len(message.Message)]
 	err := app.Models.Commands.Insert(name, text)
 
+	//	app.Logger.Infow("Message splits",
+	//		"Command Name:", name,
+	//		"Command Text:", text)
+
 	if err != nil {
 		reply := fmt.Sprintf("Something went wrong FeelsBadMan %s", err)
 		common.Send(message.Channel, reply, app.TwitchClient)