Gotcha!

Jun 25, 2019 20:26 · 118 words · 1 minute read programming

Collection of programming gotchas I have personally encountered. And made me confused.

Shell

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echo vs echo -n. Use the latter if you want to check for hash.

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echo "hello world" | shasum -a 256 		# trailing newline is included in hash
echo -n "hello world" | shasum -a 256 	# use -n to exclude trailing newline

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Watch out for control characters’ padding when encoding to hex.

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const controlChar = '\n'
const hex = Buffer.from(controlChar).toString('hex')
hex == controlChar.charCodeAt(0).toString(16)					// false
hex == controlChar.charCodeAt(0).toString(16).padStart(2, '0')	// true

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