I'm looking for a way to add multiple properties to the SecureCustomProperties value in my .msi installer's property table. I've tried comma delimiting, semi-colon delimiting, and even space delimiters. None of the above seem to work. Hints? ...
Hi There is a question I have been wondering about for ages and I was hoping someone could give me an answer to rest my mind. Let's assume that I have an input stream (like a file/socket/pipe) and want to parse the incoming data. Let's assume that each block of incoming data is split by a newline, like most common internet protocols. T...
For coding reasons which would horrify you (I'm too embarrassed to say), I need to store a number of text items in a single string. I will delimit them using a character. Which character is best to use for this, i.e. which character is the least likely to appear in text? Must be printable and probably less than 128 in ASCII to avoid lo...
[Update: Using SQL Server 2005] Hi, what I want to do is query my stored procedure with a comma-delimited list of values (ids) to retrieve rows of data. The problem I am receiving is a conversion error: Conversion failed when converting the varchar value ' + @PassedInIDs + ' to data type int. The statement in my where-clause and e...
I find Ruby's each function a bit confusing. If I have a line of text, an each loop will give me every space-delimited word rather than each individual character. So what's the best way of retrieving sections of the string which are delimited by a tab character. At the moment I have: line.split.each do |word| ... end but that is not ...
I need to accept a list of file names in a query string. ie: http://someSite/someApp/myUtil.ashx?files=file1.txt|file2.bmp|file3.doc Do you have any recommendations on what delimiter to use? ...
When people talk about string delimiters, does that include quotes or does that mean everything except quotes? ...
Hello, Here is an example of a file that i use to create a mysql db. The delimiter is "," but in the description for a single column exist ",". Header: City State Zip Description Los Angeles, California , 98005, "welcome to california, were are living the dream","Please stay, a while." The problem is that the description in "quotes"...
Is it possible to overload a method on default parameters? For example, if I have a method split() to split a string, but the string has two delimiters, say '_' and "delimit". Can I have two methods something like: split(const char *str, char delim = ' ') and split(const char *str, const char* delim = "delimit"); Or, is there a ...
I'm trying to add a URL parameter to an URL string in ActionScript. Currently I'm checking the existing URL to see if it explicitly has a "?" to determine if there are any existing parameters to determine if my parameter delimiter should be "?" or "&". Is there a library or utility method in ActionScript which could simplify the code bel...
Every programming language I know (Perl, Javascript, PHP, Python, ASP, ActionScript, Commodore Basic) uses single and double quotes to delimit strings. This creates the ongoing situation of having to go to great lengths to treat quotes correctly, since the quote is extremely common in the contents of strings. Why do programming languag...
Hi all, I am about to write a message protocol going over a TCP stream. The receiver needs to know where the message boundaries are. I can either send 1) fixed length messages, 2) size fields so the receiver knows how big the message is, or 3) a unique message terminator (I guess this can't be used anywhere else in the message). ...
I'm not very experienced with lower level things such as howmany bytes a character is. I tried finding out if one character equals one byte, but without success. I need to set a delimiter used for socket connections between a server and clients. This delimiter has to be as small (in bytes) as possible, to minimize bandwidth. The curren...
This MySQL script installs multiple triggers. It works on one machine running MySQL 5.0.51b-community. On another machine running MySQL 14.12 Distrib 5.0.45, for redhat-linux-gnu (i386) it fails, with this error message, which seems to be related to the DELIMITER // ... // DELIMITER; syntax : ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 272: You ha...
Using find . -print0 seems to be the only safe way of obtaining a list of files in bash due to the possibility of filenames containing spaces, newlines, quotation marks etc. However, I'm having a hard time actually making find's output useful within bash or with other command line utilities. The only way I have managed to make use of th...
Hi Im pretty new to regex and im having trouble using VB and regex. Im trying to remove a <span ....> comment and replace it with <b> so far ive got this: Regex.Replace(text, "<span[^>]*>", "<b>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase) This correctly matches the span comment but when it replaces it with the string it strips the <> and just leav...
I have an ASCII log file with some content I would like to extract. I've never taken time to learn Perl properly, but I figure this is a good tool for this task. The file is structured like this: ... ... some garbage ... ... garbage START what i want is on different lines END ... ... more garbage ... next one START more stuff I...
I am having trouble with the delimiter in the TStringList Class. Take a look: var s: string; sl: TStringList; begin sl := TStringList.Create; s := 'Users^foo bar^bar foo^foobar^barfoo'; sl.Delimiter := '^'; sl.DelimitedText := s; ShowMessage(sl[1]); end; sl[1] SHOULD return 'foo bar' sl[1] DOES return 'foo' It seems t...
This CSV file has a field delimiter of $ It looks like this: 14$"ALL0053"$$$"A"$$$"Direct Deposit in FOGSI A/c"$$"DR"$"DAS PRADIP ... How can I view the file as columns, each field shown as in columns in a table. I've tried many ways, none work. Any one knows how? I am using Ubuntu ...
Hi, I am trying do a find and replace in VI to remove a timestamp. I usually do this in VI using the S command but how do I tell VI I need to remove colons when its part of the structure of the VI command itself EX: " xxxxx xxxxx 24:00:00 CDT" tried s:24:00:00 CDT::g s:"24:00:00 CDT"::g s:/:::g Any assistance is appre...