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Casting in .NET via object mutation

In this post, we will see how to make the following code fail: object it = new SomeStruct { Item = 1 };   Floatsy(it);   Console.WriteLine(((SomeStruct)it).Item); At runtime, it will throw an InvalidCastException!

Validating email addresses with .NET regex

I did validation in Haskell a while back, and since I recently discovered .NET’s “balancing groups” regex feature, it seems like it would be a good time to do it for .NET.

So, it turns out that .NET’s Regex are more powerful t̖̱̍ͭ͊h̟ͨͨa̞̖̙̔̇n͇̝͚̤̒́ͨ̐ ̯͖̏̌̔Ị̟̮̱̥̇̐̎͂ͬ͗̒ ̪̹̱͙̘ͦ̉ͪͪͣ̉͊o͕̥̝͇͙ͪ͊ͤ̑̂̽́r͔̭̪̮̟͗̍ͨ͗͛ͣḭ̝̜͈ͫ́g̥̹̥̜̦̓̇̓i̪͕̭̞͛ͯ̓͛̔̾ͫn̘̗a̰̜ͨͪ͊l̩͑̐̐́ͥ̚l̜ͨ͋̈ẙͦ́ ̟̬̬̫͙̤ͭ̚t̳͎̱̗̲́h͔͙̰̬̊̈́͊̾o͉ͫ̌̄u͉̲̥g̏ͥ̑̅̽̇h̻͇̥̰̯ͥͯṱ̯̏̄̒͒ͫ̃.͖̟͍̘̼̼̍̐̀͊̓́…

Today, thanks to user Lucero on StackOverflow, I learned about .NET’s “Balancing Groups” Regex feature. Basically, any time you use a named capturing group, it actually pushes the capture onto a named stack. You can then pop this stack by using the same capturing group prefixed with a hyphen, like (?< -stackToPop>). Of course, anyone [...]

Unicode as she is broke

Do you think your string-handling code is robust? Are there any problems with the following snippets?