From 5278a25369f64d30a3fa7e0e64e1e02e81bb74f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Halley Gotway <johnhg@ucar.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 17:12:19 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Per #1380, only list the oper_event.technique name in the log
 message if it's non-empty.

---
 met/src/tools/tc_utils/tc_gen/tc_gen.cc | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/met/src/tools/tc_utils/tc_gen/tc_gen.cc b/met/src/tools/tc_utils/tc_gen/tc_gen.cc
index aba2e80d20..996b000caf 100644
--- a/met/src/tools/tc_utils/tc_gen/tc_gen.cc
+++ b/met/src/tools/tc_utils/tc_gen/tc_gen.cc
@@ -479,8 +479,10 @@ void process_track_files(const StringArray &files,
 
    // Analysis ATCF ID's
    if(is_anly) {
-      atcf_ids << conf_info.BestEventInfo.Technique << " or "
-               << conf_info.OperEventInfo.Technique << " analysis";
+      atcf_ids << conf_info.BestEventInfo.Technique;
+      if(conf_info.OperEventInfo.Technique.nonempty()) {
+         atcf_ids << " or " << conf_info.OperEventInfo.Technique << " analysis";
+      }
    }
    // Forecast ATCF ID's
    else {