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@bahua That would be me. I'm too lazy to learn regex properly.
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@besplash Please for the sake of us all: Learn them or at least use a validation library which uses regex for common input fields.
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@finiteAutomaton Are there any good resources for lazy people?
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@besplash
I think it is great to start with simple regexes via
https://regex101.com/
and write some strings on which you want to succeed or fail your regex.
Then, for validating (and looking up regexes) you can visit: https://github.com/chriso/...
and look up the regexes in some of the files, like
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@finiteAutomaton Thanks, will look into it
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@besplash Thanks! Remember to not overuse it, though and make something like that:
http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/... -
http://regexr.com is a great place to test your expressions, and get a good explanation of everything that's going on.
Found this in our codebase, apparently one of my co-workers had written this
When the API is not documented.
User Ip Address is too long (maximum is 30 characters).
Okay, dear third-party API, I guess users with IPv6 don't deserve the service... And wtf is 30-char limit for an IP address, when IPv4 can be only 15 characters long, and IPv6 can be up to 39 characters? Did you calculate a weighted average of IP length to get that number?
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