Minimum string length across scopes/extractors
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Description
2. We have a lint to warn on strings with length smaller than 4, "capa only extracts strings with length >= 4"?
Should we make this uniform across the extractors or keep as is (since we have more knowledge at the instruction scope, for example)?
_Originally posted by @mr-tz in https://github.com/mandiant/capa/pull/1273#discussion_r1065491133_
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the lint and string-extraction paths for each scope and extractor, then read the linked pull-request discussion for context. This is done when a clear minimum-length policy is chosen, applied consistently where appropriate, and covered by tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- reverse-engineering
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Needs clarification
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- 25/100