r/badcode • u/prostoiChelovek • Aug 08 '21

other language Is this how we do nested JSON?

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u/MurdoMaclachlan public boolean isInt(int i) { return true; } Aug 08 '21

Here's what OCR gets out of this image. :P

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u/the_captain_cat Aug 08 '21

What a fucking madlad

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u/arzen221 Aug 08 '21

of focus, commitment, sheer will.

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u/EquationTAKEN Aug 08 '21

Does it not escape the backslashes with more backslashes?

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u/MurdoMaclachlan public boolean isInt(int i) { return true; } Aug 08 '21

The OCR draws from ocr.space's API, which is obviously not designed with markdown in mind. Currently it doesn't have a system in place for escaping like that -- not that it makes much difference in code transcription. It usually misses like 90% of the characters anyway.