Separate a receipt's fields on any whitespace, not only a space

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Csos3Vfm66NrAywQUe3e4V

src/dlr.ts

@@ -56,17 +56,18 @@ export type Dlr = {
 	statusMsg: MessageState;
 };
 
-const field = (name: string) => new RegExp(`\\b${name}:([^ ]*)`, 'i');
+const field = (name: string) => new RegExp(`\\b${name}:(\\S*)`, 'i');
 
 const patterns = {
 	dlvrd: field('dlvrd'),
-	doneDate: /\bdone date:([^ ]*)/i,
+	doneDate: field('done date'),
 	err: field('err'),
 	id: field('id'),
 	stat: field('stat'),
 	sub: field('sub'),
-	submitDate: /\bsubmit date:([^ ]*)/i,
-	text: /\btext:(.*)$/i,
+	submitDate: field('submit date'),
+	// The last field, and the only one that may hold a space: it carries the message's own start.
+	text: /\btext:([^\r\n]*)/i,
 };
 
 function toNumber(value: string | undefined): number | undefined {

test/dlr.test.ts

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { dlrFromPdu, parseReceipt, receiptCodes } from '../src/dlr.ts';
 import { objToPdu, pduToObj } from '../src/pdu.ts';
 import type { PduObject, TlvInput } from '../src/pdu.ts';
 
-const receiptText = 'id:0195f0c7 sub:001 dlvrd:001 submit date:2508251430 done date:2508251431 stat:DELIVRD err:000 text:hello';
+const receiptText = 'id:0195f0c7 sub:001 dlvrd:001 submit date:2508251430 done date:2508251431 stat:DELIVRD err:000 text:hello there';
 
 function deliverSm(
 	message: Buffer | string,
@@ -44,7 +44,14 @@ describe('parseReceipt()', () => {
 		assert.equal(receipt.doneDate, '2508251431');
 		assert.equal(receipt.stat, 'DELIVRD');
 		assert.equal(receipt.err, '000');
-		assert.equal(receipt.text, 'hello');
+		assert.equal(receipt.text, 'hello there');
+	});
+
+	test('takes any whitespace between the fields, not only a space', () => {
+		const wrapped = 'id:0195f0c7\r\nsub:001\ndlvrd:001\tsubmit date:2508251430\r\ndone date:2508251431'
+			+ '\r\nstat:DELIVRD\r\nerr:000\r\ntext:hello there\r\n';
+
+		assert.deepEqual(parseReceipt(wrapped), parseReceipt(receiptText));
 	});
 
 	test('does not confuse "done date" with "submit date"', () => {
@@ -204,7 +211,7 @@ describe('dlrFromPdu()', () => {
 
 		assert.ok(dlr?.receipt);
 		assert.equal(dlr.receipt.sub, 1);
-		assert.equal(dlr.receipt.text, 'hello');
+		assert.equal(dlr.receipt.text, 'hello there');
 	});
 
 	test('reads the id in the notation the peer writes receipts in', () => {

todo.md

@@ -170,11 +170,6 @@ session message is a change to every call site.
 - [ ] **Coverage reporting.** `node --test --experimental-test-coverage` works today; nothing
       publishes the numbers.
 
-- [ ] **A receipt whose fields are separated by anything but a space reads as one field.**
-      `parseReceipt()` takes `id:` as everything up to the next space, so a peer writing CRLF
-      between fields yields an id of `1a2b\r\nstat:DELIVRD` — one nothing correlates and no
-      notation can read. Every field pattern has the same shape. Raised by review, 2026-08-30.
-
 - [ ] **An `onReceipt` hook.** Receipt text is only loosely specified and operators disagree on it,
       but `dlrFromPdu()` is wired into `IncomingRequests` with no seam of its own: an application
       facing a format we do not parse has to take the whole PDU on `onRequest` and reimplement the