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Re: Re: Re: Re^4: Cleaning the Log

by demerphq (Chancellor)
on Sep 03, 2002 at 14:03 UTC ( [id://194770]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: Re^4: Cleaning the Log
in thread Cleaning the Log

Actually neither my version nor yours had this error.

The key issue here is that you cant just replace .{BS} with // as this allows other char sequences to "become" a {BS} element. The process of converting {BS} to a \b char and _then_ converting the .\b's resolves this issue.

But you are correct that ultimately there is no way to recover what was actually _entered_ into the computer without knowing the input rules that applied at the time of entry. Basically IMO this entire task is an interesting game but ultimately a futile one from the POV of actually solving the problem.

Yves / DeMerphq
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Software Engineering is Programming when you can't. -- E. W. Dijkstra (RIP)

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Re^8: Cleaning the Log
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 03, 2002 at 14:11 UTC
    Actually, you just brought me to the conclusion that this all was an excercise in futility because - duh, in hindsight - what happens if the user types the literal string {BS}? Whoops.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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