Good string parser delimiter ?

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25th November 2006, 05:20 PM
Rushino

Good string parser delimiter ?

Is ; a good string parser delimiter ?
25th November 2006, 05:24 PM
Surmulot

Re: Good string parser delimiter ?

I think it depends on what your string will be. If you create the string yourself, you may use this delimiter and avoid the ";". If someone else creates the string, I think you'd rather use "|".
25th November 2006, 06:26 PM
DavidN

Re: Good string parser delimiter ?

If there aren't any semicolons in the strings you want to delimit, yes.
25th November 2006, 06:33 PM
Corentin

Re: Good string parser delimiter ?

Surmulot is right. If this delimiter is used in strings with player-input, then ";" might be used... But "|" could be used too (in smileys for example :|).
I currently use "|" much, but i make tests to avoid this kind of problem, and I try to use player-input at the end of the tokenized string, so that it won't matter much :
/PrivateMessage|Corentin|Rushino| hey :| Here's my private message to you Rushino
will not result in a big problem.
/PrivateMessage|hey :| Here's my private message to you Rushino|Corentin|Rushino
Would be more complicated....

Remember that client-side tests aren't enough, a hacker could send text containing your delimiter without using your client, but with another app
25th November 2006, 08:49 PM
James

Re: Good string parser delimiter ?

They could also send it using your client with a tool like WPE, no matter how much protection you put in client side.
26th November 2006, 03:09 PM
Rushino

Re: Good string parser delimiter ?

Interesting... how about * ? that will never be used...
26th November 2006, 03:53 PM
Gustav

Re: Good string parser delimiter ?

I am using the #. :)
26th November 2006, 04:36 PM
Joshtek

Re: Good string parser delimiter ?

I use stuff like ±.
26th November 2006, 05:06 PM
Sphax

Re: Good string parser delimiter ?

I use "¤" because this character is never used.
26th November 2006, 06:29 PM
aidmm

Re: Good string parser delimiter ?

and using a combination of odd characters (i.e. "|+") would increase the odds that someone would use them.
26th November 2006, 06:32 PM
raytrace

Re: Good string parser delimiter ?

I use the XP Password Character/Bullet point.
27th November 2006, 02:15 AM
DavidN

Re: Good string parser delimiter ?

Basically, anything that you can't access directly with the keyboard is probably your best bet.
27th November 2006, 06:07 PM
raytrace

Re: Good string parser delimiter ?

Quote:

Basically, anything that you can't access directly with the keyboard is probably your best bet.

Hold down the left "alt" and type in on the keypad:

"0149" or
"0177"

:) you can access everything :)
27th November 2006, 06:28 PM
DavidN

Re: Good string parser delimiter ?

Obviously, but anything accessible by that has to be better than ;.
27th November 2006, 07:27 PM
raytrace

Re: Good string parser delimiter ?

The alternative is to do what mmf2 did and use commas but put text into ""s. Of course you couldn't use string parser for this but it is not hard to make your own parser which detects whether there is an odd number of "s before the comma or not... :D