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A comment on Format Strings in Rust 1.58. Parent comment

Re:Format Strings in Rust 1.58 by pron on Friday January 14, 2022 @08:27AM (#29934166)
> But once you do that then there is no real reason to be wary of format strings.

But then format strings don't help you much as you can't use them to create the sanitised types. You can't sanitise the string after it's been constructed.

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Re:Format Strings in Rust 1.58 by thinkharderdev on Friday January 14, 2022 @08:49AM (#29934371)
Right, but there are many, many use cases for creating string in which you don't need some specific sanitization. Most of the time when I am using a format string I am not worried about sanitization.
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