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wtetzner on March 22, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Regex character "$" doesn't mean "end-of-string"

> No lines, not a text file.

That seems like a broken (maybe just bad?) definition/specification to me. A blob of JSON in a file isn't "text" if there's no newline character trailing it?

simonh on March 23, 2024 [–]

There are other definitions of a text file than the opengroup spec, particularly for specific OS platforms. I’m not sure what convention JSON follows.

As a spec it’s fine. It defines a text file in such a way that you can easily write code to process such a file deterministicaly.

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