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Developer finds bug where substring match hides comments

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A developer discovered a bug in their comment-deduplication script, `reply_comments.py`, where a simple substring check was used instead of a precise header match. This meant that if a comment ID coincidentally appeared within the text of another comment's draft reply, the script would incorrectly mark the new comment as already handled. The issue was highlighted by the presence of the year "2026" in a draft, which could be mistaken for a comment ID, leading to potentially lost comments. The developer contrasted this with a correctly implemented header extraction method used in another function within the same script. AI

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Developer finds bug where substring match hides comments

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Enjoy Kumawat ·

    My Comment-Dedup Check Used "in" on a Whole Markdown File. A Date in a Sentence Broke It.

    <p>I have a small script, <code>reply_comments.py</code>, that keeps my DEV.to comment-reply backlog from turning invisible. It runs in an unattended pipeline twice a day: pull every comment on my articles, skip the ones I've already replied to, skip the ones I've already drafted…

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