On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 23:28 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote: > I see this more as: > > If you had 2 fields: > General subject line > Change description > > Would I divide "General subject line" into multiple fields even though > there was no technical necissity to do so at the moment, but would > provide for cleaner code to allow for features to possibly be more > easily added in the future? > > hmm tough one, as I really like clean code, but I think I would leave > it as is for now since splitting the General subject line field using > a perl expression seems feasible and easy to do should the need arise > in the future. Do you seriously think relying on regexes for parsing out data is safe and reliable for human-inputted strings w/o confirmation? -sv