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Happy Thanksgiving, Chris. I cannot for the life of me understand how pumpkin pie wouldn't be part of it, but you do you!
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Chris Maunder wrote: poutine
What you get depends on where you get them. Most people think poutine is french fries with gravy and cheese tcurds.
Real poutine[^]
But I never wave bye bye
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I would image it's a lot like running a bar, except for the fist fights. 
Here's to another 20!
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
JaxCoder.com
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Chris Maunder wrote: Happy Thanksgiving!
Same to you. 
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Chris Maunder wrote: Happy Thanksgiving!
And to you, Chris.
Thank you and the rest of the CP staff for making codeproject.com a nice place to hang my programming hat. The folks here and the articles they freely provide have helped me out more times than I can count. We do appreciate the hard work you, the staff, and the hamsters put in.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Chris Maunder wrote: I just can’t get into
Chris Maunder wrote: Ford F-150’s,
Might I suggest that if you cannot get into a Ford F-150 you lay off the Thanksgiving feast for a while? 
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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So I just spent an hour figuring out why I was getting an exception in my application when using a third party library to communicate to a credit card processing machine. I was getting a general exception back from the third party library, but the test software that comes with the library was working just fine.
Short answer, when I C&P'd my router's public IP address into the dialog box, there was a space at the end of the IP address. Took a while to spot:
"192.168.14.134 "
vs.
"192.168.14.134"
Sigh. OK, so now I make sure to trim the IP address string (the third party library expects a string) and I suppose I should do some regex validation.
Still, why couldn't I get back an exception like "malformed IP address"? Why is the library so sensitive to an space at the end of string? Yes, I take some responsibility, but not all the responsibility!!!
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Yeah, now try other (valid) variants and see what their code does with them.
Edit:
A .net method/property which takes an IP address as a parameter should take a System.Net.IPAddress rather than a string.
modified 14-Oct-19 23:20pm.
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Marc Clifton wrote: when I C&P'd my router's public IP address into the dialog box
Copy & Paste, indeed! I expect more from you. You should be typing more. 
Trim()
Seriously though...it seems really odd (terrible) that they didn't at least do a String.Trim() on the incoming string since it is such a freebie in almost every language (java, C#, javascript). Many more languages have it of course, but it is just named something slightly different.
I never trust user input because I used to do a lot of testing and open input boxes are the best way to break a program.
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raddevus wrote: ...open input boxes are the best way to break a program.
Indeed.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Yep, Little Bobby Tables. The newest on this one is real -- the guy who chose NULL for his license plate:
How a 'NULL' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell | WIRED[^]
Summary, every time a cop didn't have the license plate for the ticket a NULL got entered into the database for the license plate. That meant all ticket fines got assigned to the owner with the license plate of NULL. 
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In another jurisdiction, "NO PLATE" had the same effect.
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err,
getting back to the OP message then...
if the guy was smarter he would have chosen (without the quotes) "NULL ", " NULL" or " NULL " as his plate.
(ya jus gotta find one of those forms where you enter each letter into a box - excuse for the last 2 "wanted it centered".
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Marc Clifton wrote: Yes, I take some responsibility, but not all the responsibility!!!
How does that go again? "Be generous in what you accept for input, but strict about what you output..."?
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Stringly typing never seems to get out of fashion.Strict typing can be a pain at times, but in the end it's one of your strongest allies. Taking the lazy way out breeds so many small and large horrors, but why waste a thought on it when they waste other people's time?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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public class IPAddress
{
public int FirstPart { get; set; }
public int SecondPart { get; set; }
public int ThirdPart { get; set; }
public int FourthPart { get; set; }
public override string ToString()
{
return $"{FirstPart}.{SecondPart}.{ThirdPart}.{FourthPart}";
}
}
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We're going to have to wash your mouth out with SOAP young man...
Software Zen: delete this;
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You should see my IPv6 implementation
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public class IPv6Address : IPAddress
{
public int FourthPartSubPartA { set; get; }
public int FourthPartSubPartB { set; get; }
public override string ToString()
{
return $"{FirstPart}:{SecondPart}:{ThirdPart}:{FourthPart}:{FourthPartSubPartA}:{FourthPartSubPartB}";
}
}Something like this, no?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Those trailing space problems get worse when SQL Server gets involved, or the way we have it set up anyway. While a string with a trailing space is completely different to one without in .NET, TSQL matches them both. Causes a key-caching nightmare when not validated!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Not to mention that T-SQL will trim only character 32 and not other "whitespace characters".
And as a bonus, it does the same thing with VARBINARY, not just VARCHAR.
(LEN as well.)
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I was looking for the manual and map that came with an old game. Looks like the box also contained this opportunity[^].
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Unfortunately, the salary is also paid at 1980's rates ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Go get the DeLorean and we just travel back.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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