I can't get my application to convert a string into a float: float number = float.Parse(match); Where match is "0.791794". Why doesn't this work? The error I get is "Input string was not in a correct format.", but I can't understand what's wrong with it. ...
I have a array list of objects (<ArrayList> Cars) which contains two single elements. These elements are New Car Model[name=Prius, manufacturer=Toyota, year=2001] and New Car Model[name=Panda, manufacturer=Fiat, year=2005;]. I would like to create a two dimensional String array (in this case String [2][3] Cars] where to each car would co...
Hi, I’m working with the winHTTP API in c++ and I have started to write a wrapper class for my application. For simplicity I have a number of functions that can take string parameters and use them in the winHTTP calls. However many of these require the data to be LPVOID or LPCWSTR. I can make it all work by making my wrapper functions ...
Possible Duplicate: The History Behind the Definition of a String In most programming languages a string is a sequence of characters. Why is it named that? The earliest instance of it being called a string is Algol 60 (as far as I know). Question posed by Douglas Crockford in his talk today (will post when talk is online). ...
I have the following code: #$domain = domainname.co.uk #$root = public_html #$webpage = domainname.co.uk/foo/bar/foobar.html my $string = ($webpage =~ s/^$domain//g); my $linkFromRoot = $dbh->quote($root . $string); Usualy this works fine but for some reason the output is "public_html 1" instead of "public_html/foo/bar/foobar.html". ...
I am trying to convert a small bit of Ruby to PHP, and I have had success so far, except for this one line: string = string[16,string.length-16] I have tried these two things in PHP: $string = substr($string, 16, strlen($string) - 16); // and $string = substr($string, 16, strlen($string) - 32); But the problem is that I have no clu...
Hi, I'm programming in Windows right now, but portable code would be welcomed too. What I'm using right now is fwrite(4), but this function needs a maximum number of elements to be written to the file. I can use strlen(1) here but I'd like to know if there is any better way to do this. ...
If i had the following text in a string: <h4>Tom</h4> <p>One Paragraph</p> <p>Two Paragraph</p> What code would i need to parse on that string to get an output like this (if i didnt know what was inside the <h4> tag? <p>One Paragraph</p> <p>two Paragraph</p> Thanks! ...
How to convert a array <-> string? I've a bi dimensional array and i need to save to database and retrieve. Dim myarray(,) as string = {{"some","some"},{"some","some"}} ...
Hi, I'm a new to C and got stuck with subj. I can split string with strtok but I don't know how to get a random token. Thanks. ...
params[:hello] # => "Some params value" hello = params[:hello] hello.gsub!("whatever","") params[:hello] # => "" I don't understand, can someone please explain why the params[:hello] gets modified by the gsub! ? I expected the hello string to be modified, but not the params hash. ...
I have a a char array: char* name = "hello"; I want to add an extension to that name to make it hello.txt How can I do this? name += ".txt" won't work ...
Hi All, I have the following string in a file, and it needs to be converted back to a Font object. But I'm not sure how to do this one: font string: [Font: Name=Segoe UI, Size=14, Units=3, GdiCharSet=1, GdiVerticalFont=False] I appreciate any help at all, thank you bael ...
I have a javascript string which is about 500K when being sent from the server in UTF-8. How can I tell its size in JavaScript? I know that JavaScript uses UCS-2, so does that mean 2 bytes per character. However, does it depend on the JavaScript implementation? Or on the page encoding or maybe content-type? ...
How do I write a regular expression to match two given strings, at any position in the string? For example, if I am searching for cat and mat, it should match: The cat slept on the mat in front of the fire. At 5:00 pm, I found the cat scratching the wool off the mat. etc. No matter what precedes these strings. ...
Hi, I'm trying to strip tags from a text output coming from an object. The problem is, that I can't. If I type it manually like "<p>http://www.mylink.com</p>", it works fine! When doing echo $item->text; it gives me the same string "<p>http://www.mylink.com</p>"; Doing var_dump or even gettype, gives me a string(). So, I'm s...
Just wondering why this is the case. I'm eager to know more about low level languages, and I'm only into the basics of C and this is already confusing me. Do languages like PHP automatically null terminate strings as they are being interpreted and / or parsed? I've also read a string in C is really an array of chars in an article I fou...
hi all, i'd like to split an image's href tag like <img src='/root/myimages/myPic.jpg'> so that i'm getting just myPic.jpg - whats the easiest way? thx ...
How can I convert this string 05/Feb/2010:14:00:01 to unixtime ? ...
A co-worker just created the following construction in C# (the example code is simplified). His goal was to shorten the notation for all predefined strings in the rest of the code. public struct PredefinedStrings { public const string VeryLongName = "Very Long Name"; public const string AnotherVeryLongName = "Another Very Long N...