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This one is really a WTF.
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It reminds me of the classic https://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.real-escape-string.php
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More to the point: "Is this string really empty?" "Yes, it isn't."
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Look, I came here for an argument
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no, you didn't
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...This is abuse.
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Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
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Now hold your head and go "waaa!"
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As the old song goes, "Yes we have no bananas."
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so it's the Wisconsin boolean return of "yeah, no" or "yeah, no, yeah"??
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I had a hard time reading this because I already was laughing at the function name
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Or in Australia "yeah, nah" = no, "nah, yeah" = yes :)
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Cette chaîne est vraiment vide.
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A programmer has a problem and thinks: "I know! I'll use ...".
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A programmer has a problem and thinks: "I know! I'll use ...".
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Which of course is just a wrapper for
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/c-api/9.5/en/mysql-real-escape-string.html
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Holy moly... There's mysql_real_escape_string() and there's also mysql_real_escape_string_quote().