Max length of Region Name?

Hello

I need to know the maximum length a region's name can be - but cannot find this information in the obvious places - the forums here, SL Limits web pages, LSL Portal & LSL Wiki and web search.

Thank you in advance

http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=simulator says, "Simulator names are restricted to 20 characters(counting spaces) which may be split into 3 alphanumeric words," but must be outdated or just wrong. "Sandbox Island Extension" is 24 characters.

simname length
Combat (sandbox) - Blue Team's HQ 33
Combat (sandbox) - Red Team's HQ 32
Orientation Island Public 25
Linden Remembrance Garden 25
Blake Sea - Jones Locker 24
Sandbox Island Extension 24
Combat (sandbox) Rausch 23
Straits of Shermerville 23
Blake Sea - Sirens Isle 23
Blake Sea - Half Hitch 22
Blake Sea - Turnbuckle 22
Blake Sea - Travertine 22
Blake Sea - Brigantine 22
Blake Sea - Crows Nest 22
Bay City - Molesworth 21
Bay City - Imaginario 21
Bay City - Falconmoon 21
High Point University 21
Nautilus - Sophonisba 21
Blake Sea - Cannonade 21
Blake Sea - Mainbrace 21
Blake Sea - Thunderer 21

Thank you Hewee for such a fast response.

Even though the 20 char and 24 char conflict - it seems to suggest a limit to it. I thought there might be a limit of 255 or something very large.

I'll just use 48 as a safe margin and hope its in bounds.

This is getting more uncertain - i'll now wait a while and see if anything higher than 33 turns up - thank you though

Perhaps a Support Ticket is the way go for a definitive answer.

ADDED
I've now just submitted a ticket about the Knowledge Base not including this - if an answer comes back I'll post it here.

According to https://support.secondlife.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=5215 (Guidelines for Private Region Naming), The Combat sandboxes are, I think, mainland, so it may well be that different rules apply there.

Actually I think the difference you are seeing is the difference between what Lindens can name a region and what a user can name a region. Anyone have an example of a user generated name that falls outside the guidelines?

Sadly nearly all these rules are broken. Commas are frequenly included, as are dashes. (so much for no punctuation). Much longer than 25 characters. There is an island named 'Q', so forget about more than 3 characters. I have an island named after a RL city.

As for the PG, well maybe they kept that one. In making my web based services I discovered to expect the unexpected.

Found a great Example: 'St. Martin' is a sim. Note not only is the the name of a real place, but that pesky period is a punctuation.

On reflection, the "not a real place" restriction has to mean, I think, "not a real place anyone at LL has heard of". Probably I wouldn't be able to call a sim "Boston" but I bet I could get away with calling it "Spalding" (note to non-UK readers; as well as being a place in the USA, Boston is a town in Lincolnshire, in the east of England, just down the road from a town called Spalding).

This exception to the no punctuation mark rule is odd... you would think that, if they don't like punctuation marks it wouldn't be too difficult to programme the computer to reject names containing them. Perhaps one might argue that it's not really a punctuation mark in this context; the period here serves to indicate the word's been contracted rather than to punctuate anything, but I doubt that's anyone's reasoning.

Well, it is just the example of the day, There are plenty more out there. So far to my Regular Expression parsing I've had to add the following for sim names:

Dashes -
Parens ( and )
Period .
Single quote '
Exclamation point !


I've encountered sims with all of these at some point in my name processing. And I'm sure something new will pop up eventually.

There is also an island named "X".

Found a sim named 'DS & DS' today. So have to add '&' to the list.