I've personally never felt comfortable using regexes to solve production problems. The certificate code referenced here shows why:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/d5979c2a5c2e...
Yikes.
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https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/d5979c2a5c2e...
Yikes.
That's exceptionally presumptions to the point of being snotty.
> I think you are getting the causality wrong there.
Where did I imply causality? This was simply an occasion to look at the code. This is bad code. I would not pass this. What's your _justification_ for using a regex here?
> > The certificate code referenced here shows why
So what's the implication here, then?
> This is bad code.
Without justifying further I think we're on equal footing on the snottiness here (:
What's bad? Why not use regex here? It's not like they're using it to parse user-controlled HTML. Simple string transormations like this is a great use-case where the manual character iteration easily becomes inefficient and messy. And you may introduce bugs in the process (unicode length bugs are common).
Do you also avoid grep and sed without the -F flag in shell?