• beep (2/2) Feb 09 2008 I read: std.regexp is designed to work only with valid UTF strings as in...
• Sergey Gromov (5/8) Feb 09 2008 It's possible for an arbitrary char[] to be an invalid UTF string.

beep <beep spam.com> writes:

I read: std.regexp is designed to work only with valid UTF strings as input.

Is it possible for an UTF-string (meaning a string obeying the UTF specs) to be
invalid?

Sergey Gromov <snake.scaly gmail.com> writes:

beep <beep spam.com> wrote:
 I read: std.regexp is designed to work only with valid UTF strings as input.
 
 Is it possible for an UTF-string (meaning a string obeying the UTF specs) to
be invalid?

It's possible for an arbitrary char[] to be an invalid UTF string.  
That's what it means.

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