Are there particular cases where native text manipulation is more desirable than regex? In particular .net? Note: Regex appears to be a highly emotive subject, so I am wary of asking such a question. This question is not inviting personal/profession opinions on regex, only specific situations where a solution including its use is not as...
Does anyone know how to construct a format string in .NET so that the resulting string contains a colon? In detail, I have a value, say 200, that I need to format as a ratio, i.e. "1:200". So I'm constructing a format string like this "1:{0:N0}" which works fine. The problem is I want zero to display as "0", not "1:0", so my format stri...
In the following C++ code, I realised that gcount() was returning a larger number than I wanted, because getline() consumes the final newline character but doesn't send it to the input stream. What I still don't understand is the program's output, though. For input "Test\n", why do I get " est\n"? How come my mistake affects the first...
Hey Folks I'm writing a simple function and for some reason(probably a simple one) it's not working for me and I was wondering if you guys could help me out. function check_value($postID) { $ID = $postID; $cookie = $_COOKIE['list_of_IDS']; $position = strpos($cookie,$ID); echo 'ID:'.$ID.'-Cookie:'.$cookie; ...
I have a DLL compiled with D2007 that has functions that return AnsiStrings. My application is compiled in D2009. When it calls the AnsiString functions, it gets back garbage. I created a little test app/dll to experiment and discovered that if both app and dll are compiled with the same version of Delphi (either 2007 or 2009), there i...
I have a string of the form "foo-bar-1.23-4", and I need to split at the first hypen followed by a numeral, such that the result is ['foo-bar', '1.23-4']. I've tried the following: >>> re.split('-\d', 'foo-bar-1.23-4', 1) ['foo-bar', '.23-4'] and >>> re.split('-(\d)', 'foo-bar-1.23-4', 1) ['foo-bar', '1', '.23-4'] with suboptimal r...
I made a page where something entered in a TextBox, is displayed "as-is" on a Label control Since i am a beginner, I just made: Label1.Text = TextBox1.Text.ToLower(); Is this dangerous? I tried something but it seems that Label controls only takes text, i i felt confident that is safe Maybe is dangerous if the user will insert some ...
datetime = '0000-00-00 00:00:00'.split('-') Right now it just splits it at the hyphen, but is it possible to split this string at both -'s and :'s ? ...
I was looking for a way to stuff some data into a string across a DLL boundary. Because we use different compilers, all our dll interfaces are simple char*. Is there a correct way to pass a pointer into the dll function such that it is able to fill the string buffer directly? string stringToFillIn(100, '\0'); FunctionInDLL( stringToFi...
Hi, I am trying to write a regex to get the numbers from strings like these ones: javascript:ShowPage('6009',null,null,null,null,null,null,null) javascript:BlockLink('2146',null,null,null) I am having difficulty writing the regex to grab these numbers. Could anyone lend a hand? Cheers Eef ...
I need to develop an application that will index several texts and I need to search for people’s names inside these texts. The problem is that, while a person’s correct name is “Gregory Jackson Junior”, inside the text, the name might me written as: - Greg Jackson Jr - Gegory Jackson Jr - Gregory Jackson - Gregory J. Junior I plan t...
I have the following code to set a userId variable: (userId set in prior code) <c:set var="userId" value="(Cust#${userId})" /> Which produces the following string: (Cust#${userId}) The following code works as expected, however: <c:set var="userId" value="(Cust# ${userId})" /> displays the following string (Cust# 0001) . Why does...
In c# how can I check in the file name has the "pound sign" and "apostrophe sign" This is waht I tried so far but doesn't work. I need to send an error if the # or ' are in the filename return filename.Contains("#\'"); ...
Hello, My site allows users to enter URLs into a database. I am using the code "$site = strtolower($site);" to make all of these URLs lower-case. However, I just realized that Wikipedia URLs are case sensitive, so I would like to avoid using "$site = strtolower($site);" on Wikipedia URLs, all of which contain "wikipedia.org". How co...
I am trying to parse a text file that has the weird quotes like “ and ” into "normal quotes like " I tried this: text.gsub!("“",'"') text.gsub!("”",'"') but when it's done, they are still there and show up as \x93 and \x94 so I tried adding that too with no luck: text.gsub!('\\x93', '"') text.gsub!('\\x94', '"') The problem is,...
We implemented the session state server and deployed in local PC(windows xp) its working fine. WE deployed in windows server 2003 we got the issue in connection string. Any one help me. ...
Hi, I feed a textbox a string value showing me a balance that need to be formatted like this: ###,###,###,##0.00 I could use the value.ToString("c"), but this would put the currency sign in front of it. Any idea how I would manipulate the string before feeding teh textbox to achieve the above formatting? I tried this, without succe...
I have a winforms RichTextBox containing lots of lines of text (eg 2 MB text files), and would like to programmatically change the formatting of specified lines, eg highlighting them. How can I address the lines, rather than the characters? Is a RichTextBox even the best control for this sort of thing, or is there another alternative? I...
Programming in Android, most of the text values are expected in CharSequence. Why is that ? What is the benefit and what are the main impacts of using CharSequence over String ? What are the main differences, and what issues are expected, while using them, and converting from one to another ? ...
I have a list of tuples: X = [{"alpha","beta"},{"gamma","theta"}]. I want to print X as a flat string using, io_lib:format("~s", [X]) in the following format: [{"x":"alpha", "y":"beta"}, {"x":"gamma", "y":"theta"}] How do I achieve this? I started using Map to do transform the list. But I was not able to print it as a string...(ga...