scanf style parsing

[Grant Edwards]

On 29 Sep 2001 15:47:49 GMT, chasm at atlantis.rift <chasm at atlantis.rift> wrote:
>>> Regex's are useful and powerful.  But they're also very easy to
>>> abuse.  I've actually seen the following Perl code:
>>> 
>>>     if ($filename =~ /\.txt$/) { ... }
>>> ...
>>>
>>> or, much more preferably:
>>> 
>>>     if filename[-4:] == '.txt':
>>
>>Overall, the Perl code's better.  It didn't have to hard-code the
>>length of the string.
>
>	ext = '.txt'
>	if filename[-len(ext):] == ext:

  if filename.endswith(".txt"):

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