Was it maybe a translate from fortran?  Ijk has that sort of sound

On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, 20:48 Greg Keogh, <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry not helpful for your situation exactly, but I don’t know about regex
>> being easier to read than an old C style method.
>>
>
> Ah, a religious coding war.
>
> The C++ raw parsing code that was transliterated into C# looks like
> classic C from the late 1970s (it was actually written in Borland C++ in
> the early 90s), and it really reminds me of the S/360 assembler I wrote in
> the mid 1980s. The only difference between early C and the assembler is the
> indentation.
>
> The C-style parsing code is about 50 lines of code with ijk ints and
> indexing. The Regex equivalent is 5 short lines (but 10x slower).
>
> Do you want the red pill or the blue pill?
>
> *Greg*
>
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