By sureshkrishna
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Published: Aug 08 2008 / 12:23
Recently i was involved in an issue took a week to come to know the root cause. In the end its an eye opener to many who does not give importance to string functions and regex.
“Regular expressions and String functions are quite powerful in any language; however utmost importance should be given to such code.”
Comments
joecoder replied ago:
Should be called: "Beware of using Java APIs you don't understand well."
gregsmith104 replied ago:
"With great power comes great responsibility"
Regular Expression are one of the most amazing/powerful things I have ever come across in programming, BUT you have to test them thoroughly to ensure they are working correctly.
sureshkrishna replied ago:
@gregsmith104
Sure. But many a times its difficult to test for the ALL the scenarios that you would get at the customers.
Also in the software development all the design and coding ideas changes with time. So, the code which is written 5 years back would have had some specific constraints in the coders mind.
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