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I am currently programming a Visual C# service to receive emails from various sources then I take certain info and organize it in a database using Regex to retrieve the deferent cell values (such as header, body, problem, cost, etc.etc.). My problem is that I am currently using a Hotmail account to email the service which the service th...

using ansi sql syntax for formatting Numeric

Hi I am using two different databases for my project, Oracle and Apache Derby, and am trying as much as possible to use the ANSI SQL syntax supported by both of the databases. I have a table with a column amount_paid NUMERIC(26,2). My old code, which was using Oracle db, needed to retrieve value in this format SELECT LTRIM(TO...

tool to auto-format R code

Is there any tool (editor, script, whatever...) available that can automatically reformat R code? It does not need to be customizable but it must be able to recognize statements separated by either semicolons or newlines since this code has both. If it can put all statements on a separate line, consistently indent code blocks and consist...

c# string formatting

I m curious why would i use string formatting while i can use concatenation such as Console.WriteLine("Hello {0} !", name); Console.WriteLine("Hello "+ name + " !"); Why to prefer the first one over second? ...

how to low-level format a hard disk using AIX?

Hi guys, I have a server with AIX 6.1 , I formated some hdisks using diag tool, but in some way some of its VGDA survived. how may I low-level format a hard disk using AIX? or how may I clear the VGDA of a specific hdisk? thanks ...

Getting a nicely formatted timestamp without lots of overhead?

In my app I have a textView which contains real-time messages from my app, as things happen, messages get printed to this text box. Each message is time-stamped with HH:MM:SS. Up to now, I had also been chasing what seemed to be a memory leak, but as it turns out, it's just my time-stamp formatting method (see below), It apparently pro...

ChoiceFormat.setChoices confusion about format parameter type and documentation

From the java.text.ChoiceFormat API: setChoices(double[] limits, String[] formats): Set the choices to be used in formatting. Parameters: limits - contains [...] formats - are the formats you want to use for each limit. They can be either Format objects or Strings. When formatting with object Y, if the object is a ...

Format date on x-axis in cfchart

I want to format the date on the x-axis of my cfchart as mm/yyyy as opposed to the full datetime value that is returned from sql server (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss). How do I do this? ...

How can I set Visual Studio to use K&R style bracketing?

I really don't like this style of formatting: Class AwesomeClass { private static void AwesomeMethod() { } } Can I make it format my code like this? Class AwesomeClass { private static void AwesomeMethod() { } } ...

ASP.net Literal or Page altering HTML string, causing formatting issues

We have a service that generates a report (using word templates and a 3rd party library), and then returns a string in HTML. While this HTML isn't great - its formatted correctly in this string. We want this HTML to show up on a page - format intact. What we currently have done is set an ASP.net Literal's text element to this string. ...

GWT time/string formatting

How can I easily do the following in GWT? (The code below is illegal since String.format is not emulated.) long lTime = System.currentTimeMillis() % (24*60*60*1000); long lHour = lTime/(60*60*1000); long lMin = lTime/(60*1000)%60; long lSec = lTime/1000%60; long lMilli = lTime%1000; return String.format("%d.%.2d:%.2d.%.4d", lHour, lMin,...

String.Format not converting integers correctly in arabic

I have a problem with String.Format. The following code formats the string correctly apart from the first integer. Current culture is set to Iraqi arabic (ar-IQ): int currentItem= 1; string of= "من"; int count = 2; string formatted = string.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, "{0}{1}{2}", currentItem, of, count); The text is formatted ...

How can I tell the number of replacements in a formatter string?

Given the following method: (real method has a few more parameters, but the important ones are below...) public string DoSomething(string formatter, params string[] values) { // Do something eventually involving a call to String.Format(formatter, values); } Is there a way to tell if my values array has enough objects in it to cov...

Cannot format first column in WxPython's ListCtrl

If I set the format of the first column in a ListCtrl to align centre (or align right) nothing happens. It works for the other columns. This only happens on Windows - I have tested it on Linux and it works fine. Does anyone know if there is a work-round or other solution? Here is an example based on code found at http://zetcode.com/wxp...

formatting sourcecode using jQuery

Does anyone know if there's a jQuery plugin to format code, XML or HTML? I'm showing the user some code on an html page. I use google prettify for coloring the syntax, but would like some indentation and linebreaks too. any suggestions? ...

Excel 2007 floating format toolbar customisation

Is it possible in Excel 2007 to customise the floating format bar that is shown when you right-click on a cell? To avoid confusion, I don't mean the "Cell" commandbar menu, but the second floating toolbar with formatting buttons. e.g. is it possible to add a Styles dropdown, or have any other text alignment option than centre? Thanks i...

jquery validator message styling error in IE08 only when customised using errorPlacement function

Going back to the errorplacement solution by Nadia (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/860055/jquery-override-default-validation-error-message-display-css-popup-tooltip-like) I have tried it and it works like a charm in Safari and Firefox but causes IE08 to bypass the jqueryvalidator and go straight to the server side validator. My cod...

Keep text formatting in Sql

I have a text area that inserts it's content into a SQL table. Is there a way to keep the formatting of the text and then use it in HTML? ...

BaseX get line-breaks return between node-data

Hi! I'm using BaseX as my XML based DB. I make a simple query like xquery for $Book in /Libraray/Literaturelist/Literature/Title return fn:data($Book) I get all titles, just as a String that has got no line breaks. Is there a way to add line-breaks with XQuery after each node found by the query to separate the data? This is not rea...

Print WinForms TextBox with Tab Formatting

I have been working on some code that prints a textbox that lists contact information. When I try to print it, it doesn't print out the tabs that I used to format the text. Here is my code: Private Sub PrintPage(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal ev As PrintPageEventArgs) _ Handles prndoc.PrintPage Dim fnt As Font = resultTextBox.Font ...