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a negative length doesnt exist smarty pants and who in the hell would use one?
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by belg4mit (Prior) on Apr 16, 2002 at 05:18 UTC
    It's called data validation tr0ll. Although this particular algorythm is transparent(and by this I mean it could care less -1**2==1**2)to negative numbers, that does not mean one should let bad data through.

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    perl -pe "s/\b;([mnst])/'\1/mg"

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