Stop using string splicing and instead regular expressions in Facebook

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Stop using string splicing and instead regular expressions in Facebook #2

Closed AlJohri closed 10 years ago

AlJohri commented 10 years ago

regular expressions are slower (we can probably precompile and pickle) but trimming the first "X" characters in a script tag to find the resulting JSON inside doesn't feel right.

AlJohri commented 10 years ago

too unspecific. will reopen this later if needed.