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by Remy Porter in Representative Line on 2025-01-14

David was integrating a new extension into their ecommerce solution, and found this un-representative line:

$this->model_sale_manageorder->exportOrder(substr($selectid,0,strlen($selectid)-1));

22 comments - Last comment @ 2025-01-15

Generate JSON

by Remy Porter in Representative Line on 2025-01-07

Today's anonymous submission is a delightfully simple line of JavaScript which really is an archetype of a representative line.

$json = "{";

14 comments - Last comment @ 2025-01-10

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