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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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Overall, just stop reinventing the wheel and use a library which maintainers already covered more corner cases than you're willing to think of. If everybody just used what's already out there we wouldn't have ad-hoc "password validators" complaining that & is not a valid character when they explicitly ask for special characters in it.