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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Renaming some value-string API functions

From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:18:58 +0100
On 03/23/2013 01:50 PM, Evan Huus wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 03/22/2013 09:35 PM, Evan Huus wrote:
>>> As proposed and discussed in bug #8467. Any objections?
>>>
>>> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8467
>>
>> Took some digging to find the rationale here:
>> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8461#c12
> 
> Yes, sorry, forgot that it started on another bug.
> 
>> Besides what's written there, don't forget about the *_ext interfaces here.
>> Oh, and _all_ documentation / code samples, etc.
> 
> That's what global search+replace is for :) It won't pick up wiki
> articles but it should get README.dev and others.
> 
>> I get the idea, but we're wondering into parser territory here. It might be a
>> whole can-o-worms.
> 
> Not sure what you mean? Just renaming a few functions, nothing parser-related?
> 

What I mean is that you already got/may get several requests for matching functions:
- case sensitive / non-sensitive
- ASCII / UTF-8 / UCS-2
- wildcards.

Thanks,
Jaap