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What is the benefit of these lines? #2

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signorrayan opened this issue Nov 25, 2021 · 1 comment
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What is the benefit of these lines? #2

signorrayan opened this issue Nov 25, 2021 · 1 comment

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Could you please tell me what is the benefit of lines 59, 60 and 62?
Is it for future options or I'm wrong.

if record[key] == "":
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adulau commented Nov 25, 2021

It's to avoid the insertion of empty field record. It's quite common to have tools producing empty hashes for fuzzy hashing when the files are small. It's the case for SSDEEP and TLSH.

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