How to get position of last letter in a string in php?
Example of a string: "Some text.....!!!!!!!!?????" Using PHP how would I get the position of the last letter (or even alphanum character) which in this example is the letter t? ...
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Example of when the culture parameter of string.Equals (c#) actually makes a difference?
I don’t fully understand the second parameter of string.Equals, and this is because I can’t find any examples of when it would actually make a difference. For example, the example given here is the same, regardless of the value of the second parameter (aside from IgnoreCase): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c64xh8f9.aspx I am j...
What is the faster way of trying to find a single character on a String?
Hi, What of this code is faster/more efficient? : Boolean contains = myString.IndexOf("~", StringComparision.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)!=-1; or Boolean contains = myString.IndexOf('~')!=-1; I think the second because is a single character, but using the invariant culture ignore case comparer is supposed to be fast too :P Cheers....
Looping through an array while adding the data to a string and finally returning it, a faster way?
Getting the customer's to_s method by looping through Is there a Ruby idiom to write the code in 1 line (or shorter than 3 lines of code)? def method string = "" @customers.each { |customer| string += customer.to_s + "\n" } string end ...
Handling apostrophes, php and pgsql
For my forms, I'm using pg_escape_string on every field before I insert them into the database. So I get something like firstname='O''reilly'. But when I try to print that out, I get O''reily, 2 apostrophes. Shouldn't it only 1 apostrophe, O'reilly? This isnt a debugging problem, im just wondering if you have firstname='O''reilly', how ...
What is faster when looking in lists of strings? "In" or "index"?
Hello! I have a bunch of lists of strings and I need to know if an string is in any of them so I have to look for the string in the first list, if not found, in the second, if not found, in the third... and so on. My question is: What is faster? if (string in stringList1): return True else: if (string in stringList2): ...
javascript string difference
Possible Duplicates: single quotes versus double quotes in js When to Use Double or Single Quotes in JavaScript What is the difference (if any) between the javascript strings defined below? var str1 = "Somestring"; var str2 = 'Somestring'; "" and '' mean two very different things to me predominantly writing code in C++ :...
How to write ASCII special characters in a .Net string
Suppose I want to use the ASCII special character FS(0x1C) in a .Net string, and then be able to format a byte array from that same string with the special character properly represented as a single byte, how would I do that? I can't seem to get my head around it. Thanks for any help you can give. ...
parse my proprietary string format
How can we get the numbers 7 and 4 and 5 from the following string: MODULE potmtpMAIN main <info: "Enterprise Optimizer 7.4 for COR Technology 5.5 -- Advanced Solver Edition", url:"http://EO.riverlogic.com", url_menu:"EO Online...", app_id:"EOAS",app_name:"Enterprise Optimizer AS", app_major:7, app_minor:4,app_micro:5,app_copyr...
Regular expressions in java
String s= "(See <a href=\"/wiki/Grass_fed_beef\" title=\"Grass fed beef\" " + "class=\"mw-redirect\">grass fed beef.) They have been used for " + "<a href=\"/wiki/Paper\" title=\"Paper\">paper-making since " + "2400 BC or before."; In the string above I have inter-mixed html with text. Well the requiremen...
How do I search a Perl array for a matching string?
What is the smartest way of searching through an array of strings for a matching string in Perl? One caveat, I would like the search to be case-insensitive so "aAa" would be in ("aaa","bbb") ...
Convert generic type definition strings from C# style to CLR style
I want to convert a C# style generic type string, like "System.Dictionary<System.String, System.String>" to it's CLR equivalent: "System.Dictionary`1[System.String, System.String]" and back. Is there an easy way to do this, or do I have to resort to string manipulation? EDIT: I only have the string representation in C#/VB/etc styl...
C#: should "" be assigned to string to make it empty?
Should "" be assigned to a string to make it empty? Or should it be a left as null? ...
Can't append space at end of UITextView
I have a UITextView in which I want the initial value to be "@username " when they keyboard shows up (notice the space after the username). This way the user can start typing right away without having to tap space. So I do: textView.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"@%@ ", username]; But it seems like it's impossible to have the UIT...
Determine if a string contains only alphanumeric characters (or a space)
I'm learning C++ and I am writing a function that determines whether a string contains only alphanumeric characters and spaces. I suppose I am effectively testing whether it matches the regular expression ^[[:alnum:] ]+$ but without using regular expressions. I have seen a lot of algorithms revolve around iterators, so I tried to find a ...
How to set connection string dynamically in NHibernate
Hi I want assign connection string for NHibernate using following code and getting exception (bold). log4net.Config.DOMConfigurator.Configure(); Configuration config = new Configuration(); IDictionary props = new Hashtable(); props["hibernate.connection.provider"] = "NHibernate.Connection.DriverConnectionProvider"; props["hibernate.d...
a Problem to pass a string between 2 view controller (iPhone)
my problem is quite simple, but as a beginner, I'm lost :D I have to view controller : view one call view 2 like this : self.FacebookTypeRequest =@"favoris"; FaceBookViewController *viewcontrol = [[FaceBookViewController alloc]initWithNibName:@"FaceBookViewController" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]]; viewcontrol.title = @"FaceBook"; ...
Difference between static const char* and const char*.
Could someone please explain the difference in how the 2 snippets of code are handled below? They definitely compile to different assembly code, but I'm trying to understand how the code might act differently. I understand that string literals are thrown into read only memory and are effectively static, but how does that differ from the ...
c# marshaling dynamic-length string
i have a struct with dynamic length: [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, Pack = 1)] struct PktAck { public Int32 code; [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] public string text; } when i'm converting bytes[] to struct by this code: GCHandle handle = GCHandle.Alloc(bytes_array, GCHandleType.Pinned); result_str...
What is the fastest method to calculate substring
I have a huge "binary" string, like: 1110 0010 1000 1111 0000 1100 1010 0111.... It's length is 0 modulo 4, and may reach 500,000. I have also a corresponding array: {14, 2, 8, 15, 0, 12, 10, 7, ...} (every number in the array corresponds to 4 bits in the string) Given this string, this array, and a number N, I need to calculate the ...