{"id":317,"date":"2014-04-11T08:32:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2014-04-11T08:33:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:33:04","slug":"found-some-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Found Some Code&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre># check for missing fields\r\nif (!$var1) {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return 'missing_var1';\r\n} elsif (!$var2) {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return 'missing_var2';\r\n} elsif (! $hash-&gt;{val1}) {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return 'missing_hash_val1';\r\n} elsif (! $hash-&gt;{val2}) {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return 'missing_hash_val2';\r\n} elsif (! $hash-&gt;{val3}) {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return 'missing_val3';\r\n} elsif (! $hash-&gt;{val4}) {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return 'missing_hash_val4';\r\n} elsif (! $hash-&gt;{val5}) {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return 'missing_hash_val5';\r\n} elsif (! $hash-&gt;{val6}) {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return 'missing_hash_val6';\r\n} elsif (! $hash-&gt;{val7}) {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return 'missing_hash_val7';\r\n} elsif (! $hash-&gt;{val7}) {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return 'missing_hash_val8';\r\n} elsif (! $hash-&gt;{val9}) {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return 'missing_hash_val9';\r\n} elsif (! $hash-&gt;{val10}) {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return 'missing_hash_val10';\r\n} elsif (!$var3) {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return 'missing_var3';\r\n} elsif (!$var4) {\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return 'missing_val4';\r\n}<\/pre>\n<p><em>[identifiers changed to protect the innocent, but otherwise this is verbatim]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gee, I wonder if this could be simplified?\u00a0 I really don&#8217;t see the pattern&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I see code like this much to often.\u00a0 Most of the time it&#8217;s old and the developer(s) moved on long ago.\u00a0 I stopped reading <a title=\"The Daily WTF\" href=\"http:\/\/thedailywtf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TheDailyWTF<\/a> regularly because it hits too close to home nowadays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p># check for missing fields if (!$var1) { \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return &#8216;missing_var1&#8217;; } elsif (!$var2) { \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 return &#8216;missing_var2&#8217;; } elsif (! 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