I have a database of items with XHTML content and I want to display the items with the HTML stripped off (done) and then truncate each item to a maximum length of 100 characters. If the string exceeds 100 characters, I cut it off and insert … (an ellipsis) at the end. The problem is that my program doesn't understand HTML entitie...
I'm working with UTF-8 strings. I need to get a slice using byte-based indexes, not char-based. I found references on the web to String#subseq, which is supposed to be like String#[], but for bytes. Alas, it seems not to have made it to 1.9.1. Now, why would I want to do that? There's a chance I'll end up with an invalid string should ...
I'd like to create a function that has the following signature: public String createString(int length, char ch) It should return a string of repeating characters of the specified length. For example if length is 5 and ch is 'p' the return value should be ppppp Is there a way to do this without looping until it is the required ...
I'm making a firefox extension (nsACString is from mozilla) but LoadLibrary expects a LPCWSTR. I googled a few options but nothing worked. Sort of out of my depth with strings so any references would also be appreciated. ...
I am creating a drop down list of all languages, with the language used when creating other info in the page as the default selected in the list: <select> <c:forEach items="${languages}" var="lang"> <c:choose> <c:when test="${lang}.equals(${pageLang})"> <option value="${lang}" selected>${lang}</option> </c:whe...
Valgrind report memory leak when assign a value to a string I used this simple code to test an memory leak reported by valgrind. /****************************************** * FILE: t3.c * Compiled using : g++ -g t3.c -o t3 * * $ g++ -v * Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/specs * Configured with: ./configure --pre...
I believed the String pool abandoned local Strings when their methods completed Yet: public class TestPool implements Runnable{ /** * @param args the command line arguments */ public void run() { String str= "hello"; synchronized(str){ try { System.out.print(Thread.current...
How do I take off a certain character in a string and put them all together in an array like: "{2} in better that {1} when it comes to blah blah blah" and the output would be: array(0 => "2", 1 => "1"); I have used regular expression but it seems like it doesn't loop throughout the string or maybe I'm missing something? Thanks ...
I was wondering if .NET offers any standard functionality for doing a prefix search through a list or a dictionary object. I came across the StringDictionary, but couldn't figure out if it can do that for me. And if it can do a prefix search, can it also do substring search or let me search using something like a regular expression? Th...
I am trying to format a decimal so that it will get displayed as so: 14.5 should get displayed as "14.50" 14.50 should get displayed as "14.50" 14.05 should get displayed as "14.05" 14.00 should get displayed as "14" Is the possible with a single String Format, i.e. not using conditional formatting? I've tried "0.##" (doesn't satisfy ...
public String makinStrings() { String m = "Fred47"; String s = "Fred"; s = s + "47"; s = s.substring(0); return s.toString(); } How many objects are created by the code? I made a simple test: public static void main(String[] args) { String m = "a"; m += "bc"; String s1 = "mabc".substring(1); String s2 = "ab...
What is the best way to extract the integer part of a string like Hello123 How do you get the 123 part. You can sort of hack it using Java's Scanner, is there a better way? ...
Hi, I have 2 DateTime objects, which I save to a file after using the ToShortDateString() function; the strings look like "12/15/2009". I am stuck on this part now, I want to initialize DateTimeObject(s) with these strings so I can compare the timespan between the date dates. Any help appreciated. ...
I want to check whether the given string is single- or double-quoted. If it is single quote I want to convert it to be double quote, else it has to be same double quote. ...
I'm a newbie at VBA and html and I'm getting very confused. I'm trying to set a string variable to equal several concatenated html strings and control values. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Here is my code: htmlText = "<HTML><BODY bgcolor=#0b3767> <img height=""71"" width=""500"" alt=""Central Analysis Bureau, Inc. - Kno...
I am doing a database migration and I currently have a string column with dates (versus having the optimal datetime field set for these). Is there a function I can call in MySQL to convert this field to a datetime so I can use the date features such as before this date or after this date? ...
I have some basic dropdownlist databinding code. I need to modify the datasource at Runtime and insert a new field. ddlPrimaryCarrier.DataSource = FinancialInstitutions; ddlPrimaryCarrier.DataValueField = "EntityCode"; ddlPrimaryCarrier.DataTextField = "EntityNameDesc"; ddlPrimaryCarrier.DataBind()...
i have one function which return value in this format li#2.ui-widget-content li#6.ui-widget-content li#12.ui-widget-content li#1.ui-widget-content each time i run function i get random value in the above format. i want to get value after li# in jquery Thanks ...
The user types a string, possibly separated by tabs, spaces and "enters" (CRs). I need to receive all of it; the problem is that gets() function stops the scan when the user presses the "Enter" key. Is there another way to do it? I cannot use any other function except for scanf and gets. ...
Greetings, I am developing GWT application where user can enter his details in Japanese. But the 'userid' and 'password' should only contain English characters(Latin Alphabet). How to validate Strings for this? ...