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jlg23·Apr 24, 2016

Please... not before I had my first coffee... "all programming languages under the globe" "Profanity finder library is currently available for the following programming languages: JavaScript, PHP" and https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/profanity-finder/blob/mast... contains strings like "bra", "clitoris", "tampon", "vodka" and "xxx"?!? Well, at least it let's me talk about "x-rated" movies, even though it is in the list of bad words - in both the php and javascript versions it's not matched due to broken regexps that are supposed to sanitize input..

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gautamkrishnar·Apr 24, 2016Submission

Simple profanity finding library for all programming languages under the globe

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