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I think the set of programs used to test qualifying codes should also include the set of failures such as: end of line in a string, end of file in a string, end of file in a comment, a quoted character with two or more characters specified, a empty quoted character, a number containing a non digit, a number over the maximum possible, etcetera. Both the C and Java versions have code for testing over the maximum number and neither worked correctly for me. If the maximum integer is turned into a string and the input integer's string is longer or equal and the string is greater than the maximum, it is not valid.
--[[User:Jwells1213|Jwells1213]] ([[User talk:Jwells1213|talk]]) 18:11, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
: This seems valid.
: Perhaps you could propose the examples you used (add them to the task)? --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 18:57, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
: re: C version ''testing over the maximum number'' - I could not reproduce this. Can you tell me how you compiled the C version (OS, compiler, options, compiler version, 32 or 64 bit) and what numbers you tried? In my tests, it failed as I expected it to. --[[User:Ed Davis|Ed Davis]] ([[User talk:Ed Davis|talk]]) 10:46, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
: I agree, this seems like a good idea. Perhaps under '''Additional examples'''
: You could add a link to a page on negative examples, or examples that should fail. --[[User:Ed Davis|Ed Davis]] ([[User talk:Ed Davis|talk]]) 10:46, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
==Output Clarification==
The example outputs use \n to display the new line within strings. However, some scanners place the actual character into the output. It should all be done one way so lexical output from C for example would be valid input into all other languages syntax program.
[[User:Jwells1213|Jwells1213]] ([[User talk:Jwells1213|talk]]) 18:31, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
: This sounds like a nice idea, but there's other aspects of the task which are not sufficiently standardized for that to work (like the pipe mechanism). Conceptually. Perhaps a more important goal would be to have the implementations be readable enough that making these adjustments would be straightforward to implement. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 19:01, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
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