Thread: Verifying absence of brackets and parentheses

Originally Posted by Nominal Animal

You can simplify your logic by using the fact that you have delimiter pairs surrounding your content.

You essentially have just two states: within content, and between content. The identity of the delimiters is just a data point you keep in helper variable(s). (This is the laziness bit I mentioned in another thread, when designing state machines.)

Does that mean the lazier my state machine is, the better (when it comes to complexity) it will be?
in the another thread, could I have used a lazier approach? i.e. used the "within content/between content" approach?

Originally Posted by Nominal Animal

I'm just personally so lazy I've found it easier to use the "you have the character already in c" idiom.

please explain further what this idiom is.