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Fixing symbolicatecrash...

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Because you found your way here, I am assuming you already know what symbolicatecrash is and when/why you would use it.  If not, take a detour here and come back.  This tool has been great but is very temperamental.  It worked for a while when I first started, then it broke and stopped giving results.  I applied the Alan Quatermain Fix, but things still weren't right.

Well, tonight I had a client app rejected from crash I couldn't reproduce.  I only had 1 crash log from Apple, and the stupid symbolicatecrash script wasn't finding anything!  I had to dig in and see what was up.  After spending a little bit brushing up my Perl, I was able to fix the problem.

Basically, the Regex that the script uses was failing to match in two places: the bundle name, and the versions.

Change lines 372-377 in the symbolicatecrash script to look like this:

There are 2 changes from the pre-Alan-Quartermain-Fix:
On line 374, I changed the "(.+)" to be "([^\s]+)" just like the AQ fix. 
On line 375, I changed the "\s+ .+ \(.+\) \s*" to be "\s+ \w+ \s*" because my crash reports never have versions in parenthesis.

I don't know if this will work for everybody, but it works for me and the crash reports I get back from iPods and iPhones.  Good luck!