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Auto-converting numbers to comma-fied versions

Given the following text /feeds/tag/remote-desktop 1320 17007 22449240 /feeds/tag/terminal-server 1328 15805 20989040 /foo/23211/test 1490 11341 16898090 Let's say we want to convert those numbers to their comma-fied forms, ...

Applying html formating in label control

The html formating is applied great in this case. The Surname is displayed with size 5. lblWelcome.Text = "Welcome:<font size=''5''>" & txtSurname.Text & "</font>" Why the html style is not applied in this example? lblWelcome.Text = "Welcome:<font color=''white''>" & txtSurname.Text & "</font>" ...

Java component for chunking arbitrary text into groups of 4x20 pages

I'm looking for a component that can take a string of arbitrary length and chop it up into "pages" for display on a 4x20 (4 lines, 20 chars per line) LCD. I'd like to add some smarts to the formatting, such that it will try to not break words at the end of the display (except for very long words), not start a new line with a space char,...

Format a string to display the Date correctly.

I need help converting this string --> 20090727 10:16:36:643 to --> 07/27/2009 10:16:36 The original date and time are being returned by the SynchronizationAgent.LastUpdated() function, which returns a String in the above format. Original question:preserved for reference I have this --> HUD.LastSyncDate = mergeSubscription.Synchro...

Format output of $SimpleXML->asXML();

Possible Duplicate: PHP simpleXML how to save the file in a formatted way? Edit Yes, this is a duplicate. Voted to close. - Eli Hi All, The title pretty much says it all. If I have something like (from the php site examples): $xmlstr = <<<XML <?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes'?> <movies></movies> XML; $sxe = new SimpleXML...

MySQL Weekday/Weekend count - Part II

Hey everyone, I have posted about this before, which helped to give me the following SQL: SELECT fname, MONTH( eventDate ) , IF( WEEKDAY( eventDate ) <5, 'weekday', 'weekend' ) AS DAY , COUNT( * ) FROM eventcal AS e LEFT JOIN users AS u ON e.primary = u.username GROUP BY fname, MONTH( eventDate ) , IF( WEEKDAY( eventDate ) <5, 'we...

diffrent string formating types in php

like %2$s %04d %01.2f %'#10s etc. can you give me some more commonly used combination? ...

windows batch script format date and time

In a windows (XP) batch script I need to format the current date and time for later use in files names etc., Similar to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/864718/how-to-append-a-date-in-batch-files but with time in as well I have this so far: echo %DATE% echo %TIME% set datetimef=%date:~-4%_%date:~3,2%_%date:~0,2%__%time:~0,2%_%time:~...

Where can I find a decent Ruby source beautifier?

Where can I find a decent Ruby source beautifier? I want something customizable and reliable. I found this but I'm not convinced. ...

Formatting text into boxes in the Python Shell

I've created a basic menu class that looks like this: class Menu: def __init__(self, title, body): self.title = title self.body = body def display(self): #print the menu to the screen What I want to do is format the title and the body so they fit inside premade boxes almost. Where no matter what I pass...

Script to modify outlook (2003) contacts

I'm trying to clean up my outlook 2003 contacts, which has become a rather ugly mess of various formatting, etc. Basically, I have a bunch of contacts, in the form of either: 0xxxxxxxxx [ten digits, starting with 0] 0xxxxxxxx [nine digits, starting with 0] 0xxxxxxxx (xxxxx) [the same nine digits above with the last five repeated in par...

Regular Expression to format certain lines of text

I am trying to improve my in-site personal messaging system by making it look nicer and feel more like e-mail. I currently add > before each line of replied text, but I would also like to add formatting such as font color to lines that start with ">" without the quotes. I am not sure how I would close the lines out with a regular expre...

Text formatting in different versions of Python

Hello, I've got a problem with executing a python script in different environments with different versions of the interpreter, because the way text is formatted differ from one version to another. In python < 2.6, it's done like this: n = 3 print "%s * %s = %s" % (n, n, n*n) whereas in python >= 2.6 the best way to do it is: n = 3...

Java DecimalFormat Scientific Notation Question

Hello. I'm using Java's DecimalFormat class to print out numbers in Scientific Notation. However, there is one problem that I have. I need the strings to be of fixed length regardless of the value, and the sign on the power of ten is throwing it off. Currently, this is what my format looks like: DecimalFormat format = new DecimalFor...

AutoIndent in Eclipse possible?

I have been wracking my brain trying to figure this out. For the first time I used jEdit the other day and I was pleasantly surprised that it auto indented my code (meaning that I'd put in the following code: int method () { _ //<-- and it put me here automatically I've tried to get the same thing working with eclipse but with no ...

How to String.Format the day of the month in c#?

DateTime's formatting has some overlap between it'a standard date and time formatting strings and some of it's custom format specifier by them selves. As a result, when I evalate this expression: string.Format(">{0:d}< >{0: d}<", DateTime.Now) and get this result: >8/3/2009< > 3< My question is: How do I get String.Format to out...

Specifying date input format

I have a asp.net textbox for date input, I use regular expression to let the user input date in dd-mm-yyyy format but when i convert the input date in datetime object, the month and day values are interchanged. How can a specify the right way for interpreting this input date? ...

How do I add thousand separators with reg ex?

I'm using this free RegExp Designer which does find and replace. How do I search for all numbers and add thousand separators? Input: <node num='12345678'> Output: <node num='12,345,678'> ...

Sharepoint GetListItems preserve whitespace?

I am using the Sharepoint Lists.asmx web service to read some data from a list, with the GetListItems method. This is all working fine and as expected, but when you retrieve a field with a large amount of text, the whitespace and linebreaks are not included in the XML node. Is there an option to include this whitespace in the return XM...

NSLog(...) improper format specifier affects other variables?

I recently wasted about half an hour tracking down this odd behavior in NSLog(...): NSString *text = @"abc"; long long num = 123; NSLog(@"num=%lld, text=%@",num,text); //(A) NSLog(@"num=%d, text=%@",num,text); //(B) Line (A) prints the expected "num=123, text=abc", but line (B) prints "num=123, text=(null)". Obviously, printing a lon...