@blakeyrat said:
Now can you answer those two questions in a way that makes this situation not a WTF, or not? It's a pretty fucking simple task, and yet nobody in your camp has completed it.
Here's why nobody wants to answer your question: This isn't a WTF. This is the kind of problem I solve at 4am when I've run out of real problems to solve. On a day-to-day basis, this sort of "problem" doesn't even come up on my radar because it takes all of 30 seconds to "fix". Like many others, I've made the mistake of thinking you're an acolyte in need of help, when in fact you're an acolyte in need of a different career. If this is how you deal with what I'd consider an immeasurably small problem, you are going to crash and burn when faced with a real problem. And no, you haven't seen a real problem yet. So what suggest you do, is take however many years you've been programming, double it, then come back and answer your own questions and tell us what you've learned. Perhaps then you'll see why people are offering you help.
Go get 'em, tiger.