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== Why is this an issue?
Trigraphs are denoted by a sequence of 2 question marks followed by a specified third character (e.g. ??- represents a '~' (tilde) character and ??) represents a ']'). They can cause accidental confusion with other uses of two question marks.
=== Noncompliant code example
[source,cpp]
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static const char str[] = "(Date should be in the form ??-??-??)"; // Noncompliant. Evaluates to "(Date should be in the form ~~]"
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=== Compliant solution
[source,cpp]
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static const char str[] = "(Date should be in the form ?" "?-?" "?-?" ?)"; // adjacent string literals concatenated at compile time
static const char str2[] = "(Date should be in the form ?-?-?)"; // problem avoided by eliminating 2nd '?' in each sequence
static const char str3[] = "(Date should be in the form ? ?-? ?-? ?)"; // problem avoided by spacing '?'s out
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== Resources
=== Documentation
* {cpp} reference - https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_alternative[Alternative operator representations: Trigraphs]
=== Standards
* CERT - https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/uNUxBQ[PRE07-C. - Avoid using repeated question marks]
=== External coding guidelines
* MISRA C:2004, 4.2 - Trigraphs shall not be used
* MISRA {cpp}:2008, 2-3-1 - Trigraphs shall not be used
* MISRA C:2012, 4.2 - Trigraphs shall not be used
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== Implementation Specification
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=== Message
Remove all trigraph sequences: ??=, ??/, ??', ??(, ??), ??!, ??<, ??>, ??-.
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