On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 07:54:14PM -0500, Greg Smith wrote: > After this bit of tinkering with the code, it feels to me like this > really wants a split() function to break out the two sides of a > string across a delimiter, eating it in the process. Adding the > level of paranoia I'd like around every bit of code I see that does > that type of operation right now would take a while. Refactoring in > terms of split and perhaps a few similarly higher-level string > parsing operations, targeted for this job, might make it easier to > focus on fortifying those library routines instead. For example, > instead of the gunk I just added that moves past either type of > protocol prefix, I'd like to just say "split(buf,"://",&left,&right) > and then move on with processing the right side.
FWIW, python calls this operation "partition", as in:
left, delim, right = buf.partition("://")
Have a nice day,
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