How to concatenate two strings on iPhone?
How to connect string "Hello" and string "World" to "HelloWorld"? Looks like "+" doesn't work. ...
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Generating Case Insensitive, Unique Alphanumeric Strings of Fixed Length
I have searched for an elegant solution, without luck. Ultimately, I need to create a number of unique id's (on a single machine) of a fixed length (of 3 characters) that begin with a letter, and contains only numbers or uppercase letters. (e.g. AXX, where X can be a number or letter) I am using the mktemp utility to generate the unique...
How do I get the byte values of a string in PHP?
Say I have a string in php, that prints out to a text file like this: nÖ§9q1Fª£ How do I get the byte codes of this to my text file rather than the funky ascii characters? ...
How to convert NSMutableData to NSString on iPhone?
I received an NSMutableData from a server and now I want to convert it to an NSString. Any ideas about how to do this? ...
How to split string into substrings on iPhone?
I received an nsstring from the server. Now I want to split it into the substring I need. How to split the string? For example: substring1:read from the second character to 5th character substring2:read 10 characters from the 6th character. ...
How to return the index of a character in string on iPhone?
I want to split a few strings whose separate marks are different. e.g.separate a string: "A-B^C~D" So I want to get the index of each separate mark. Is there any method like indexOf(' ') on iPhone? ...
When would you use an array rather than a vector/string?
I'm a beginner C++ programmer and so I've learnt using arrays rather than vectors (this seems to be the general way to do things, then move on to vectors later on). I've noticed that a lot of answers on SO suggest using vectors over arrays, and strings over char arrays. It seems that this is the "proper" way to code in C++. That all be...
Basic help needed for the C# program code
Hello, I am a newbie in programming and I want to write a program in Visual Studio with using C# language which uses a textbox and a button only. When the user writes string "A" in the textbox and presses the button, the program shows integer "5" in a messagebox. If the user writes string "B" in the textbox, the program shows integer "4"...
String equality vs equality of location
String s1 = "BloodParrot is the man"; String s2 = "BloodParrot is the man"; String s3 = new String("BloodParrot is the man"); System.out.println(s1.equals(s2)); System.out.println(s1 == s2); System.out.println(s1 == s3); System.out.println(s1.equals(s3)); // output true true false true Why don't all the strings have the same ...
How to use NSScanner?
Hi, I've just read Apple's docu of NSScanner. I'm trying to get the integer of that string: @"user logged (3 attempts)". I can't find any example, how to scan within parentheses. Any ideas? Here's the code: NSString *logString = @"user logged (3 attempts)"; NSScanner *aScanner = [NSScanner scannerWithString:logString]; [aScanner sca...
Tiny way to get the first 25 characters
Can anyone think of a nicer way to do the following: public string ShortDescription { get { return this.Description.Length <= 25 ? this.Description : this.Description.Substring(0, 25) + "..."; } } I would have liked to just do string.Substring(0, 25) but it throws an exception if the string is less than the length supplied. ...
Is it possible to get a char* name from a template type in C++
I want to get the string name (const char*) of a template type. Unfortunately I don't have access to RTTI. template< typename T > struct SomeClass { const char* GetClassName() const { return /* magic goes here */; } } So SomeClass<int> sc; sc.GetClassName(); // returns "int" Is this possible? I can't find a way and am about...
Routine for removing ALL junk from incoming strings?
Sometimes when a user is copying and pasting data into an input form we get characters like the following: didn’t,“ for beginning quotes and †for end quote, etc ... I use this routine to sanitize most input on web forms (I wrote it a while ago but am also looking for improvements): function fnSanitizePost($data) //escapes,st...
Python HTML removal
How can I remove all HTML from a string in Python? For example, how can I turn: blah blah <a href="blah">link</a> into blah blah link Thanks! ...
Best way to convert an ArrayList to a string
I have an ArrayList that I want to output completely as a String. Essentially I want to output it in order using the toString of each element separated by tabs. Is there any fast way to do this? You could loop through it (or remove each element) and concat it to a String but I think this will be very slow. ...
What is the most efficient (read time) string search method? (C#)
I find that my program is searching through lots of lengthy strings (20,000+) trying to find a particular unique phrase. What is the most efficent method for doing this in C#? Below is the current code which works like this: The search begins at startPos because the target area is somewhat removed from the start It loops through the ...
Any sample code for componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet? (on iPhone)
I want to split a long string received from a server to a few substrings. The separate characters are different. Are there any sample code for method: componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet? Or may I ask a simple code to split "A~B^C" to "A", "B" and "C"? ...
Is There A Built-In Way to Split Strings In C++?
well is there? by string i mean std::string ...
What is the best way to convert an Address object to a String?
I have an Address object that has properties AddressLine1, AddressLine2, Suburb, State, ZipCode. (there are more but this is enough for the example). Also, each of these properties are strings. And I'm using C# 3.0. I'm wanting to represent it as a string but as I'm doing that I'm finding that I'm creating a method with a high cyclomati...
Converting LPCWSTR with WideCharToMultiByte. Need help.
i have a function like this: BOOL WINAPI MyFunction(HDC hdc, LPCWSTR text, UINT cbCount){ char AnsiBuffer[255]; int written = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, text, cbCount, AnsiBuffer , 0, NULL, NULL); if(written > -1) AnsiBuffer[written] = '\0'; if(written>0){ ofstream myfile; myfile.open ("C:\\example.txt", ios::app); myfile.writ...