From: Karthik Nayak Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 15:13:56 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 04/13] ref-filter: implement an `align` atom Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Karthik Nayak writes: > >> Like this: >> >> else if (skip_prefix(name, "align", &valp)) { >> struct align *align = &v->u.align; >> struct strbuf **s; >> >> if (valp[0] != ':') >> die(_("format: usage %%(align:,)")); >> else >> valp++; >> ...... >> ........ >> } > > Checking the string's correctness as you read it seems good to me, yes. > > But as you say, you should make this a bit more generic, for example by > putting your "if/else" in a helper function, that other atoms could use. Okay then, I'll keep that in mind :) -- Regards, Karthik Nayak