in reply to Re: Email Address in Post Replies,
in thread Email Address in Post Replies,

I'm not sure this is good advice. Yes, this does seem to solve the current problem, but it makes the code a little more fragile and even less likely to be correct in the future.

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Re^3: Email Address in Post Replies,
by Sagacity (Monk) on Dec 17, 2008 at 20:10 UTC

    Chromatic,

    I would agree that this code in it's entirety needs to be brought up to speed as far as using hashes, packages and a more current style of scripting.

    I don't see where using substitution adds instability or has a problem with accuracy, unless they change the ASCII value for the character '@'.

    If I were the OP, and had a choice of re-writing this script, or fixing it for now and coming back to it later, I would code the fix and enjoy the Holiday's.
    Sometimes, getting all fancy for such a little straight forward script is not worth the effort.

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      I don't see where using substitution adds instability or has a problem with accuracy, unless they change the ASCII value for the character '@'.

      It fixes one symptom but fails to address at least six serious bugs lurking in the hand-rolled parsing code, including the root cause of this problem.

      Sometimes, getting all fancy for such a little straight forward script is not worth the effort.

      Sometimes, shorter and simpler code is easier to maintain -- especially in this case, where this particular bug would not have been present at all. If that makes code "fancy" and that's a bad thing, so be it.

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