Checking changes in to github is fast and easy, and I hope to get involved with more people on other projects using git VC (as the challenge for me is going to be keeping track on what changes to pull).
This public source control makes publishing a no-brainer convenience method in the ziggi class easy.
The git diff is here.
So more more having to substr on your own, you can have ziggi do it for you (and we like that). Only the CMD_CHAR looked for, and returns the word without that char. Or null if nothing.