Shared Purpose – The Daily WTF

Let’s say you have an input in the form field=value, and you wanted to separate that “value” part. You would probably just use UC# String.Split and let’s finish. But you didn’t RKhis associate.

public string FilterArg(string value)

    bool blAction;
    if (value.Contains('='))
        blAction = false;
    else
        blAction = true;

    string tmpValue = string.Empty;

    foreach (char t in value)
    
        if (t == '=')
        
            blAction = true;
        
        else if (t != ' ' && blAction == true)
        
            tmpValue += t;
        
    
    return tmpValue;

If the entry contains =we set up blAction on fake. Then we repeat our input, one character at a time. If the character we are on =we set up blAction to true. Otherwise, if the character we are on is not a space, i blAction is true, we add the current character to our output.

I started by suggesting that we look at the native share function, because at first glance, this code looks like it.

It does the job, but the combination of flags and loops and my inability to read sometimes makes tracking even more confusing.