MFW I'm looking for unmatched parentheses in my code.

Oct 18, 2016 6:26 PM

rusyII

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That fucking title is gold

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This is such a cute caption for such a cute gif

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I like the "There it is! Oh, shit... no" halfway through this

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Then you find it and realize you have to rework half your code because the rest of the parentheses depended on the one you fucked up

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Don't remind me!

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Notepad++ ?

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Only occasionally.

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... HALP

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Change the semicolon to a greek question mark in your co-workers C# code. I dare you

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

You monster

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You...you evil person. I am so gonna do this!

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sinister and paranormal all-in-one +1

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

as someone who has written Java, C#, and HTML I can relate

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Everything but Javascript?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

10 days in, and the nested brackets have begun to look like strange monsters. Still no sign of the stray parenthesis.

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Or the missing semicolon in java

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I created errors in the C++ Std lib when I left the semi colon off of the end of a class declaration. Fun times.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Title means hehaw to me, but up vote for the cute cat!

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I'm not in this photo, I'm clearly Isa lol

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I'm from Canada but love Still Game. I once told someone to "get it right round ye" and I think they thought I'd had a stroke.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Epic!! Please use as much Scottish pure pissh patter as you can squeeze in ;-)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Don't we want the matched parentheses? You know, for resetting of the tries, or (God forbid} dud removal?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

+1 for Fallout reference

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

error: missing "{"

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just do a search and you'll see all parenthesis. What editor are you even using ? If your editor or compiler lacks, get a better one.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's genius! Can't believe I never thought of it!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is the most relatable post on Imgur , have an upvote

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

stop, you're giving me flashbacks!

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Embrace it!!!

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aaa(AA(a)AAA(gghgh!!)!!)!!!

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I always upvote and favorite cats.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm just a beginner student in coding and I already wanna kill myself, so I'm glad I'll lose the will to live early on and not get attached.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

like 90% of the reason my print() 's don't work

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

also indents #python

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

But when you find it

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

this is the face I make when looking for the missing } in JSON

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've always loved this gif. Applicable to so many situations.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I was just thinking this one. Ugh.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

jsonlint.com is what you seek

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lol yeah it's one of my favorite things

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Brings me back to when this demon of a professor made us write out our C++ codes in pen. Nightmares.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I used to do that because I didn't have a laptop. It was really helpful to make me actually check my code

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

There were definitely pros and cons. She was also a bitch... so cons win this one.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Did he die in a fire as karma?

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She was at least 70 when I took the class 6 years ago, so maybe she's dead...

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Did she look like the lady from "Don't tell mom the babysitters dead" ? That would be fitting.

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Hah not too far off actually

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Fallout hacking anyone?

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Hmm, go on... tell me more

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In Fallout series when you hack a computer you have to guess a word but you can remove a word by matching groups of symbols between two

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

parentheses kind of like this (&@$;:").

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damn :|

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Or the wrong whitespace in python

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I thought I hated how Python handles whitespace... then I started writing my own makefiles... Hoo boy fuck you for makin me change VIM's .rc

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Holy shit this.

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#whitespacelivesmatters

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Not funny. If you knew what you were talking about, you would know that's offensive to programmers. Seriously, Python and whitespace sucks.

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I loove Python. It was my first PL I learned in college.

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I honestly couldn't be bothered to do anything with Python. My habit of using tabs for nearly everything ruined that opportunity.

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I have a whitespace compiler written in brainfuck in the same file as a brainfuck compiler written in whitespace. It's ASCII nude women art.

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Disclaimer since I ran out of space: not claiming as my work, have as in found on interwebs.

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Came here to say that. Whoever made the decision that whitespace should matter in python should be shot. (also untyped variables wtf?)

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Get a better editor

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There aren't any untyped variables in python. Their typing is just implicit rather then explicit or declarative.

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Oh, like Fortran IV then? Plus ca change, etc., ...

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Not untyped, they're implicitly typed.

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Your IDE will save you in times of struggle [JetBrains PyCharm FTW] @funkyguy4000

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that's great, but being dependent on the IDE isn't exactly a point in favor of the language. You won't always have that same IDE available.

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Spyder is another good one as well (especially for Linux)

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nice, thx!

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Loooove PyCharm. Hated Python until I discovered it.

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New users be like:

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I've heard of PyCharm! I only use python for work so I think my employer would need to purchase it because of their licenses?

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Correct, it seems pretty affordable though

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That one damn semicolon though

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"Unexpected 'DammitPleaseWork' at line 42."

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as someone just learning to use PS ((powershell, a windows thing) I can relate!

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This is when I get to both upvote and use disapproval face: ಠ_ಠ

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10 years ago (deleted Nov 15, 2016 1:55 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Depends on if you're teaching in VA or not.... and know what moodle is.

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Neeto

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I will burn you

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)

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ThatsTheJoke.exe

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Why don't you use the PowerShell ISE?

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We're using both in class.... ISE is kinda neat with the auto-fill commands.

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And all the integrations (I.e. Azure ps-comdlers)

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Even when you make the joke i still cant find the fucking error

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((

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))

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This is what smart editors are for.

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Netbeans.

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Mo like nopepad amirite

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My boss insists nanoing on production server. That's why I also freelance, so I can do things right.

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This is how smart editors work under the scenes

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Notepad ++ FTW!!!

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Atom.io anyone?

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OH YEAH!

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Yeah, or just type them both to begin with.

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Notepad++

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Syntax highlighting is glorious.

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jGrasp!

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Honestly, I can do just as well with notepad...

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Intellij for the win!

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PyCharm and Text Wrangler.

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Pretty sure vim has that.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

True dat. Command mode, shift-5

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I think you mean %. If, for whatever reason (alternate keyboard?) Shift 5 is not %, shift 5 won't work.

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Also, you probably mean normal mode. Command mode is what you get when you type a colon.

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:DoMatchParen is the long winded version according to SO

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10 years ago (deleted Nov 24, 2016 2:57 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Same with Jcreator

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I turned that off. It was fucking with my head. The colour highlights are handy for reminding you where you screwed up though.

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And Sublime, if done properly.

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When I have auto insertion I end up with extras by typing my own out of habit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I found out there is some magical setting that overwrites the auto-closed parentheses.

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... if you type another one out of habit, that is.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Anyone else use UltraEdit?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I write all my code via echo commands redirected to a file.

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Replacing 1's with lower case L's

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Filthy casual. I use a 9V battery to type commands through the parallel port.

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"Well there's your problem" - coders, probably

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Well, at least it's not vim.

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found the emacs snob

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I've actually had to generate files on-the-fly like that with batch files - it's great fun to watch it generate, run and delete itself :]

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As a software engineer,why the fuck would you do that toyourself?!

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Say whaaat???

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Thats basically ed

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adding an invisible character to your code would be too evil then :/

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I hope you brace yourself for the errors

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As a visual studio user, I would probably have a mental breakdown if I had to do this.

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I write all my code in BLC. It's what the cool kids do these days.

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I use a compiler from the 80s. You probably never heard of it.

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Use visual studio.

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Edlin?

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I wrote this code along time ago, a real long time ago. (I hope you were referencing Chappell!)

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10 years ago (deleted Oct 19, 2016 3:29 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Some dialects of LISP are still going strong, even making a resurgence in data science industries! :) Keep it up!

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cc?

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I write all my code using a magnetised needle and a steady hand.

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I use butterflies to write my code.

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^this guy gets it=]

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Sewing?

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Most data is magnetically stored. He means here is Physically Writing code in Binary by hand.

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Psh, amateur. I write my code with ink and use my brain to compile.

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This kid in my programming class won't shut up about how his preferred IDE is better than the (granted, pretty shite) one at school >.>

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It probably is, but that's no reason to go on about it. What is he, into Netbeans?

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Eclipse. As it happens, we have Netbeans but for the course we all have to use BlueJ.

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Notepad ++ ftw!

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I've been using Atom recently for building a django site, it's awesome. Takes a little time to tweak to your liking, but it's worth it.

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Yes, especially in school then written tests are a joke

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That's not an IDE. Emacs could count as one. But not Notepad++

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C-INTERCAL?

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PLEASE DO :5 <- "'?":1~'#65535$#0'"$":2~'#65535$#0'"' ~'#0$#65535'"$"'?":1~'#0$#65535'"$":2~'#0$ #65535'"'~'#0$#65535'"

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You just reawakened nightmares, thx.

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My brain is freaking out and I don't know why.

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Compiler error: "How Rude!"

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made me lol

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At least you don't use emacs.

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echo @echo Hello World! > hw.bat && hw.bat

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oh right.. now i gotta del hw.bat... done!

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(sorry @echo!)

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the famous mr. ed

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Real programmers set the universal constants at the start such that the universe evolves to contain the disk with the data they want.

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That's the most fucking fantastic shit I've ever heard. fuck the emacs nerds. This fucking guy over here echos shit into a flat file.

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https://xkcd.com/378/

10 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 0

Real programmers use computers

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Thanks. I'd forgotten all about the Cmd-Meta-Butterfly keystroke.

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I was going to link that.

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Thanks, just what I came here for!

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Oh look at the special needs coder who can only code with the aid of a shell!

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trying to figure out if this is a joke or not

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Love that guy.

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Is there a good reason, or just for fun?

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Funsies.

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This is a true programmer's question.

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I used to take notes from uni pc to my home pc through ssh, echo and bash aliases for different files for fun. Trying to find a real reason.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Because I can has always been a favorite of mine.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Maybe try emacs if you hate yourself so much. Or just go with vim for additional pain.

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Vim is a whole language unto itself! I see the power of it, but I've never learned enough to really make use of its real capabilities.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

How is emacs hard to get started with? You can set CUA mode to get the normie shortcuts, and ween yourself off the training wheels.

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