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MS SQL2005 Query/Stored Proc Results To Text using SqlCommand or such

I have a simple question. I need to return results as simple text, either as a string or similar. ie I want the same behaviour such as Results to Text (Cntrl + T) when you run a Query from SQL Server Management Studio. How can this be done programatically against calling a Stored Proc from C#? ie similar to ExecuteReader(); or ...

Parsing "From" addresses from email text

I'm trying to extract email addresses from plain text transcripts of emails. I've cobbled together a bit of code to find the addresses themselves, but I don't know how to make it discriminate between them; right now it just spits out all email addresses in the file. I'd like to make it so it only spits out addresses that are preceeded b...

Declaring Text Decorations such as Underline, Strikethrough in a Style.

How do I include text decorations such as Underline, Strikethrough etc in a Style definition: <Style x:Key="UnderlinedLabel"> <Setter Property="Control.FontFamily" Value="Trebuchet MS" /> <Setter Property="Control.FontSize" Value="14" /> <!-- Next line fails --> <Setter Property="Control.TextDecorations" Value="Under...

How can I convert an integer into its verbal representation?

Is there a library or a class/function that I can use to convert an integer to it's verbal representation? Example input: 4,567,788 Example output: Four million, Five hundred sixty-seven thousand, seven hundred eighty-eight For reference, I am using C# and .NET 3.5. ...

XAML For Reflection Effect

I'm a XAML/WPF newbie, and I thought I'd write an alarm clock application to get into it. I want to get past the basic textboxes, dropdowns etc, which are fairly simple once you get the hang of the layout model, but I'd like to get into the graphics side of things. I'd like to display alarm clock digits on a black backdrop, but importa...

SQL Server Text type v.s. varchar data type

Hello everyone, I have variable length character data and want to store in SQL Server (2005) database. I want to learn some best practices about how to choose TEXT SQL type or choose VARCHAR SQL type, pros and cons in performance/footprint/function. thanks in advance, George ...

CSS: how to stop text from taking up more than 1 line?

Is there a word-wrap or any other attribute that stops text from wrapping? I have a height, and overflow:hidden, and the text still breaks. Needs to work in all browsers, in before CSS3. ...

Putting spaces back into a string of text with unreliable space information

I need to parse some text from pdfs but the pdf formatting results in extremely unreliable spacing. The result is that I have to ignore the spaces and have a continuous stream of non-space characters. Any suggestions on how to parse the string and put spaces back into the string by guessing? I'm using ruby. Or should I say I'musingrub...

"tag cloud" generators?

I would like to add a "tag cloud" to a project I'm working on. I see tons of them via google, but they seem to mostly be "enter an url" type. I'm looking for one which either has either a nice web-accessible api a standalone local executable (linux preferred) a linkable library (c,python preferred) of course, other options and sugg...

manually finding the size of a block of text (ASCII format)

Is there an easy way to manually (ie. not through code) find the size (in bytes, KB, etc) of a block of selected text? Currently I am taking the text, cutting/pasting into a new text document, saving it, then clicking "properties" to get an estimate of the size. I am developing mainly in visual studio 2008 but I need any sort of simple ...

problem while importing the data from text to mysql

Hi, I have used an application to import some data from a text file to mysql. I have used the following code. try { stmt = conn.createStatement(ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_SENSITIVE, ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE); stmt1= (Statement) conn.createStatement(); int deleteRows = stmt1.executeUpdate("delete fro...

Render multiline text with Rails ?

Hi all, I'd like to render multiline text in Rails, the action looks like: def mutli_text render :text => 'Word1\nWord2' end and I'd expect the response to be : Word1 Word2 unfortunatly I get Word1\nWord2 Any help would be appreciated (The action must render a multiline response to get the autocomplete jquery plugin working) ...

Process for copy-editing text on your software products

Do you have a process within your company for the approval and copy-editing of text on your software products? If so, do you employ a professional copy-editor, or does a nominated person within the organisation take responsibility for this? Edit I know that this is not exactly programming-related, but it does have a strong bearing on ...

Getting the removed text from a Java text component

A JTextComponent allows you to add a DocumentListener to its Document, which will tell you when text was added or removed, and the offset and length of the change. It will not, however, tell you what the text of the change was. This is not much of a problem for text addition, as you can use the offset and the length to find the added t...

WPF UIElements Inline with Text "Adornments"

In WPF how can I put regular UIElements inline with text? For example a certain classification of text would replace a span of text with a dropdown containing specific options. I've used objects like Span, Bold, Hyperlink that do some light modifications to text inline, but I want to be able to do something more drastic, and custom. C...

Is Perl a good option for heavy text-processing?

I have this web application which needs to do several heavy text processing tasks: removing certain characters, parsing XML files, among others. Some of them involve regular expressions. The web application has some implementations in Java and others in PHP. Is it worth using Perl or other specific text processing language for such task...

replace urls

hi there, I have a huge txt file and Editpad Pro list of urls with images on the root folder. http://www.othersite.com/image01.jpg http://www.mysite.com/image01.jpg http://www.mysite.com/category/image01.jpg How can I change only that ones that has images on the root using regexp? http://www.othersite.com/image01.jpg http://www.NEW_...

What language should I use to create a simple text-formatting application online?

I want to make a page for a website that will let the user create a blog post, and want them to be able to graphically edit the formatting, like paragraphs and styles, then convert this to html. Is there a way to do it in PHP? Do I need to use Javascript or Ajax or something? ...

What's The Best Approach To Do Keyword Searching On A Text Field?

I have a database table which holds meta data about images, the field in concern is the caption field. I want users to be able to enter keywords into a textbox and have the app return a selection of images that match the keywords based on their caption. I already have the code that returns an array of the individual keywords entered by ...

Determining binary/text file type?

Namely, how would you tell an archive (jar/rar/etc.) file from a textual (xml/txt, encoding-independent) one? ...