From e54b8cbff7835b764c49c368d29a770eb18b589a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Deena Sun <deenasun@live.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:38:10 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [chore] added comments to clarify what merge function fix
 does

---
 api/webscraper/utils/scraper_utils.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/api/webscraper/utils/scraper_utils.py b/api/webscraper/utils/scraper_utils.py
index 9b2c819..cc2bdae 100644
--- a/api/webscraper/utils/scraper_utils.py
+++ b/api/webscraper/utils/scraper_utils.py
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ def find_keyword(project_name):
         last_non_digit_index = len(project_name) - 1
         while last_non_digit_index > 0 and project_name[last_non_digit_index].isdigit():
             last_non_digit_index -= 1
+
+        # return the substring up to but not including the last non-digit
+        # if there are no non-digit characters, return the whole project name
         return (
             project_name[: last_non_digit_index + 1].strip()
             if last_non_digit_index < len(project_name) - 1