Timeline for Minimizing string length checker in C# + format(ish) function
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| Jan 30, 2020 at 19:19 | comment | added | Eric Lippert | No, I'm genuinely confused. If the input is always in the desired format then there is no need to write a validator that confirms that except, say, as an assertion. Also, as I noted, the original code assumes that the input is definitely in a form that has at least two dashes; it crashes otherwise, indicating that the code has never been tested in an environment where that invariant was violated. It is unclear to me what properties are actually being tested for here, and why the existing code assumes some invariants are met but not others. | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 10:00 | comment | added | Mr47 | @ZevSpitz Eric is not confused; that's just a rhetorical question | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 4:47 | comment | added | user20416 | @EricLippert Perhaps to validate that the input actually matches the format? | |
| Jan 29, 2020 at 23:25 | comment | added | Eric Lippert | @Travis: I am confused. If the input is always in that format then why do you need the function at all? | |
| Jan 29, 2020 at 16:49 | comment | added | Travis | The input is always in a format of XXX-XXXXXXXX-XXX. The insides dont mean much to me yet | |
| Jan 29, 2020 at 16:30 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 29, 2020 at 16:26 | history | answered | meta | CC BY-SA 4.0 |