abbreviation

What is the easiest or most effective way to convert month's abbreviation to a number in Perl? (ie "jan" to 1)

If I import a library to use a method, would it be worth it? Does importing take up a lot of memory? ...

How do you deal with duplicate street suffixes?

I have a system where users need to enter addresses. I am trying to limit duplicates of course and something I started noticing was becoming a big problem was some users putting in "Road" and others "Rd", therefore duplicates were creeping in. I looked up the list of USPS street suffix abbreviations but I still have a question which I ...

TZ4Net: DST abbrev for a time zone

In TZ4Net, if you have an OlsonTimeZone instance, you can say tz.IsDaylightSavingTime(someDateTime), and use that to display tz.StandardName or tz.DaylightName. Great. I want the standard/daylight abbreviation. I only see ways to get the standard abbreviation (tz.Abbreviation, say). Is there a way to get this? Am I missing something...

What does .h and .m stand for?

Exact duplicate: Why do Objective C files use the .m extension? I'm thinking .h stands for header. I suppose .m could stand for main, but I don't know. Do any of you actually know this? Just to clarify, I know what goes in which file, i.e. I know the purpose of each filetype, I'm just curious if the filetype symbol has a meaning. ...

How can I transform a string into an abbreviated form?

I want to fit strings into a specific width. Example, "Hello world" -> "...world", "Hello...", "He...rld". Do you know where I can find code for that? It's a neat trick, very useful for representing information, and I'd like to add it in my applications (of course). Edit: Sorry, I forgot to mention the Font part. Not just for fixed widt...

What does SGBD mean?

As I could not find the answer anywhere else: What is SGBD? Is it "Système de Gestion de Bases de Données" (Database management system)? E.g. it is used in responses to these two Stack Overflow questions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/83050 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/236407 ...

What does HFA stand for in Coverity?

Coverity has a checker 'HFA' which is used to identify unused included header files. I understand what its used for but I don't understand the abbreviation. What does HFA stand for? It doesn't appear to be mentioned in the documentation and a quick bit of googling hasn't turned anything up. ...

When to use :abbr vs. :map in vi/vim.

The abbreviation and map commands both appear to give the user redundant functionality. :imap teh the seems to get the same job done as :iabbr teh the. I tend to make all my settings in :map commands of various types- everything from typo fixes to script-like one-liners. Is there a real difference between maps and abbreviations? Which ...

Regex - Matching Abbreviations of a Word

I was thinking in providing the following regex as an answer to this question, but I can't seem to write the regular expression I was looking for: w?o?r?d?p?r?e?s?s? This should match a ordered abbreviation of the word wordpress, but it can also match nothing at all. How can I modify the above regex in order for it to match at least ...

How to modify the keyboard input in QT?

Hi, The following feature needs to be implemented to our existing QT & C++ application. We have to expand the user typed abbreviations into pre-defined words(s). The functionality we need to implement is something similar to text expander. Say if a user typed "FL", this needs to be replaced to "Florida" after immediately. I was able t...

A string searching algorithm to quickly match an abbreviation in a large list of unabbreviated strings?

Hi! I am having a lot of trouble finding a string matching algorithm that fits my requirements. I have a very large database of strings in an unabbreviated form that need to be matched to an arbitrary abbreviation. A string that is an actual substring with no letters between its characters should also match, and with a higher score. E...

No assemblies found on MoMA

Hi folks, Debian 5.0 32 bit Mono 2.4.2.3 Test Against Mono Version 2.6 After starting MoMA (Mono Migration Analyzer) On "Choosing assemblies to analysis" page I found no assemblies there. Please advise how to load/add assemblies there? TIA B.R. satimis ...

Split string into sentences based on periods

Hi all, I have written this piece of code that splits a string and stores it in a string array:- String[] sSentence = sResult.split("[a-z]\.\s+"); However, I've added the [a-z] because I wanted to deal with some of the abbreviation problem. But then my result shows up as so:- Furthermore when Everett tried to instruct them in basic m...

What does ZIP stand for (the compression format, not the postal codes)

Does anybody know for what the acronym ZIP stands for which was and is used in programs like PKZIP and GZIP? There is a compression algorithm named Lempel-Ziv-Welch-Algorithm (LZW) maybe the guy named Ziv invented together with other people ZIP? I cannot find anything about it, maybe its not an abbreviation but instead it just means "to...

How to use abbreviations in Vim with arguments?

In Vim, you can make it so each time you write "FF" on insert mode changes to some code by using: :iab FF for ( int i = 0 ; i < n ; i++ ) But is there any way to use this with arguments? Something like C's #defines, so if I write FF(e, 10) It becomes for ( int e = 0 ; e < 10 ; e++ ) ...

Ellipsize only a section in a TextView

Hi! I was wondering if it is possible to abbreviate only a portion of a string in a TextView. What I would like to do is something like this: Element with short title (X) Element with a very lo...(X) The title should be ellipsized, but the X must be always visible. In my case, is not possible to use more than one TextView. Do you thi...