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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
GeneralRe: But it feels so _diiirtyyy_! Pin
PIEBALDconsult1-Mar-23 9:08
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jschell23-Mar-23 5:55
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
No, not failing a million times, failing once.


You did say in the OP the following which seemed to me to suggest that it would have failed a million times.

"Apparently having the catch fire occasionally is OK, but firing a million times in rapid succession is decidedly not."


PIEBALDconsult wrote:
In general, yes, non-ASCII characters cannot be considered invalid by the reader, only the caller can determine that


Back to being too idealistic to me in terms of your original point of how the code should handle it.

The method is only part of this process. It is not part of a multi-use library (presumably.) And the problem being solved does involve characters that are not ascii. So nothing wrong with this method specifically dealing with that by using the 'if' solution.

You could, idealistically, make the caller deal with it before calling the method in the first place. To me even spending time on that consideration seems like overkill. It would not be worth my time for consideration.
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