Interchangeable strings and variables sections #184
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Up until now, you could only define first strings and then variables. Defining variables and then strings was not supported by the parser, even though YARA supports such rule.
The only supported way of defining strings and variables:
Unsupported rule that throws an error:
From now on, the parser will successfully parse rules with string and variable sections defined in reverse order as well. The default section order when regenerating such rule back into fulltext representation is going to stay like it used to- first strings and then variables.