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Yeah it's complicated, and that's the thing about parsing anything, the more complicated and unpredictable the input and the harder it is to parse. Does it need to be human readabl…

What do you think the libraries you use to parse these things are doing under the hood? Maybe you don't care? Fair enough.

Yeah, I agree. But C code parsing is a common and solved problem. The myriad of things people want to store and recover is not though right.

If you created a format that is so difficult to parse that it cannot be parsed with simple readable C code then the problem is the format not the parser code.

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It's crazy that human beings with the new fandangled ability to communicate in ever easier ways have created this problem. This is your enemy. Social media, government rules are no…