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question about links parsing

cage cage-dev at twistfold.it

Sat Jul 18 13:28:21 BST 2020

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On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 11:18:38AM +0200, Katarina Eriksson wrote:

Hi!

cage <cage-dev at twistfold.it> wrote:

If each terms after the url was optional i expect the specs was

something like:

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[<whitespace>]<URL>[<whitespace>][<USER-FRIENDLY LINK NAME>]

That one makes the whitespace separator between <URL> and <USER-FRIENDLY> LINK NAME

optional, making it hard to parse.

This is what you were looking for:

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[<whitespace>]<URL>[<whitespace>[<USER-FRIENDLY LINK NAME>]]

Yes i was wrong! Thank you for correcting what i wrote. :)

However, I think it's reasonable to assume the ending whitespace was

unintentional and ignore it.

Postel's law:

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from

others

I was not able to remember the name of this law, thank you!

What disturbs me is that now my parser does not follow the grammar thespecs describe anymore; but this is just some personal thing that ihave to accept someway, i guess! :)

Bye!C.