questions about format

Hi. How do you think is really necessary to provide IFormatProvider in method String.Format(string, object) ? Is it better to write full variant String.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, "String is {0}", str) or just String.Format("String is {0}", str) ? ...

c#

.net

string

format

culture

string.Format "C" (currency) is returning the string "C" instead of formatted text.

I am trying to ensure that the text in my control derived from TextBox is always formatted as currency. I have overridden the Text property like this. public override string Text { get { return base.Text; } set { double tempDollarAmount = 0; ...

c#

format

How to convert standard IP address format string to hex and long?

Hi, Does anyone know how to get the IP address in decimal or hex from standard IP address format string ("xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx")? I've tried to use the inet_addr() function but didn't get the right result. I tested it on "84.52.184.224" the function returned 3770168404 which is not correct (the correct result is 1412741344). Thanks! ...

What is the PayPal "amount" format in WPS?

What is the allowed format for PayPal's Website Payments Standard (WPS) forms in the "amount" field? Must the decimal point be ".", or is it currency-dependant? Must there always be exactly two decimal places, or can there also be three (for currencies that have such small nominations) or none (for currencies that have hyper-inflation)? ...

paypal

format

numbers

Phone number format and validation library

This question asking for a phone number format API in Java got me wondering why such an API doesn't seem to exist. Given the number of validation classes available under Apache Commons, I would have thought such an API would be included. My question is, does anyone know of a phone number formatting/validation library available in any l...

How do I make a custom display for a jQuery datepicker?

Is it possible to show calendar as shown below using jquery datepicker. OCT-2009 Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 ...

jquery

format

datepicker

Crystal Report 2008 numeric formatting (using C#)

Greetings, I am using Crystal Reports with Visual Studio 2005. I need to display a currency field in the following format: $0.0 (which will be a value in 100,000s). If the value is 0 the field is always displayed as $0 and not $0.0. I have set the decimals settings in the numeric formatting to $1.0 and the rounding setting to 0.1 and n...

crystal-reports

format

currency

What's the difference between ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 Date Formats?

ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 seem to be two formats that are common the web. Should I use one over the other? Is one just an extension? Do I really need to care that bad? ...

datetime

format

web-standards

What is the best format to store images in a database?

What is the best format to store images in a database, such as binary,base64...etc, for optimal speed/size. ...

Python format timedelta to string

Hi, I'm a python newbie (2 weeks) and I'm having trouble formatting a datetime.timedelta object. Here's what I'm trying to do. I have a list of objects and one of the members of the class of the object is a timedelta object that shows the duration of an event. I would like to display that duration in the format of hours:minutes. I ha...

Documenting enums using doxygen

The html documentation generated by doxygen for enums lists the enum to the left and the documentation to the right. However I need quite detailed documentation for each value and some of the names are very long thus making the right column with the documentation appear far out to the right and it looks very bad. Is there no possibility ...

How do I (by default) style different types of labels differently?

In my forms, I want to make HTML labels bold in general, but not bold when they are labelling radio buttons and checkboxes. How can I do that in a CSS that can be imported and works by default, without requiring local overrides of the styling? Example Radio Label (should not be bold) <label for="banana"> <input type="radio" name="bana...

String separation in required format, Pythonic way? (with or w/o Regex)

I have a string in the format: t='@abc @def Hello this part is text' I want to get this: l=["abc", "def"] s='Hello this part is text' I did this: a=t[t.find(' ',t.rfind('@')):].strip() s=t[:t.find(' ',t.rfind('@'))].strip() b=a.split('@') l=[i.strip() for i in b][1:] It works for the most part, but it fails when the text part h...

Developing a (file) exchange format for java

I want to come up with a binary format for passing data between application instances in a form of POFs (Plain Old Files ;)). Prerequisites: should be cross-platform information to be persisted includes a single POJO & arbitrary byte[]s (files actually, the POJO stores it's names in a String[]) only sequential access is required shoul...

URL query string convention for multiple sort

I have a RESTful web application that supports multiple sort fields on a collection of items. Is there a common convention for encoding these sort fields into the query string of a URL? I'm considering a pattern like the following: http://myapp.com/books?sort=author:asc,datepublished:desc&count=12 This would sort the collection o...

url

format

query-string

How do I write text in aligned columns in Perl?

I am trying to write to a file from Perl. I just want to write the data in tab delimited format. However, the data that I am writing has varying lengths and is not lining up. For example I am trying to write something like this: Name Education Fav_Car MoneyInBank josh High School Porche 500 SomeOtherName PHD Hyundai 50000 ...

perl

format

How to change format (e.g. dd/MMM/yyyy) of DateTimePicker in WPF application

I want to Change the Format of date selected in DateTimePicker in WPF Application ...

wpf

date

format