• indepndnt@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Something like parsing a string that could have command codes in it of varying length. So I guess the difference is, is this a 1-, 2-, or 3-character code?

    I have something like this in a barcode generator and I keep trying to find a way to make it more elegant, but I keep coming back to index and offset as the simplest and most understandable approach.

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      1 year ago

      So you could generate lists of 1, 2, and 3 character code items rather than looking at index +1 or something.