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Java String Replace and null characters

Testing out someone elses code (of course it was ...) , I noticed a few JSP pages printing funky non-ascii characters. Taking a dip into the source I found this tidbit. // remove any periods from first name e.g. Mr. John --> Mr John firstName = firstName.trim().replace('.','\0'); Does replacing a character in a String with a null ch...

How to split a string to 2 strings in C

Hi, I was wondering how you could take 1 string, split it into 2 with a delimiter, such as space, and assign the 2 parts to 2 separate strings. I've tried using strtok(); but to no avail. Thanks! Mr. Man ...

Simple javascript string problem in ie6 and ie7

I have a very simple function that takes a list of comma separated (x,y) points and imports them into a graph. I have FF, Chrome and IE8 installed. I use IETester to test for IE6 and IE7. // Import Data this.Import = function(data) { alert("Data in: "+data); var d; // Make sure the first and the last are start/ending pare...

Merge a hash with the key/values of a string in ruby

Hi there, I'm trying to merge a hash with the key/values of string in ruby. i.e. h = {:day => 4, :month => 8, :year => 2010} s = "/my/crazy/url/:day/:month/:year" puts s.interpolate(h) All I've found is to iterate the keys and replace the values. But I'm not sure if there's a better way doing this? :) class String  def interpolate...

puts() a pointer in C

I have a function: char *make_text(void) { char txt[MAXLEN]; //make something return txt; } Thats my main program: int main(void) { char *s = make_text(); puts(s); getch(); return 0; } puts(s) returns 0 and its nothing printed. Whats happened? ...

How to search for 3 lettered words in a column - MySQL?

I have a 'Title' column with abbreviations (Ceo, Cio,..) which I have to capitalize. What is the most efficient way of finding 3 lettered words and capitalizing them? Sample data : Title ----------------------- Vp - business, Cio, Ceo E Vp, Cfo Ceo Cio Vp Thank you so much! ...

Whats The use of function strtok()in PHP, how is better than other string function doing the same thing?

Whats The use of function strtok()in PHP, how is better than other string function doing the same thing? ...

matching a word to end of string with strpos

Solution: strpos turned out to be the most efficient. Can be done with substr but that creates a temporary substring. Can also be done with regex, but slower than strpos and does not always produce the right answer if the word contains meta-characters (see Ayman Hourieh comment). Chosen answer: if(strlen($str) - strlen($key) == strrpo...

How to iterate loop inside a string searching for any word aftera fixed keyword?

Suppose I have a sting as "PHP Paddy,PHP Pranav,PHP Parth", now i have a count as 3,now how should I iterate loop in the string aiming on string after "PHP " to display the all the names? Alright This is the string "BEGIN IF (NEW.name != OLD.name) THEN INSERT INTO jos_menuaudit set menuid=OLD.id, oldvalue = OLD.name, newvalue = NEW.name...

Splitting string into array upon token

I'm writing a script to perform an offsite rsync backup, and whenever the rsyncline recieves some output it goes into a single variable. I then want to split that variable into an array upon the ^M token, so that I can send them to two different logger-sessions (so I get them on seperate lines in the log). My current line to perform the...

How to extract substrings with PHP

PHP beginner's question. I need to keep image paths as following in the database for the admin backend. ../../../../assets/images/subfolder/myimage.jpg However I need image paths as follows for the front-end. assets/images/subfolder/myimage.jpg What is the best way to change this by PHP? I thought about substr(), but I am wonderi...

How do I sort strings that contain numbers in Java

I want to sort a String that has nr. How do I do that? Lets say my integers are Class2 "3" "4" "1" in main I do class2.Sort(); Thanks in Advance. ...

Problem converting path string from "/", "\"

i got this code $current_path = str_replace('\', '/', getcwd()); //c://xampp/htdoc Why it fail replace '\' with '/' in directory patch ? why is the reason and how to handle this problem ? EDIT This code use to return path (or something like that) use with HTML TAG base. $current_path = getcwd(); function get_basepath() { ...

Question about Null vs zero

I have this function: void ToUpper(char * S) { while (*S!=0) { *S=(*S >= 'a' && *S <= 'z')?(*S-'a'+'A'):*S; S++; } } What does it mean for *S != 0, should it be null instead? ...

HTML5 Canvas Colour Text

How do I add colour to my text in canvas. When I tried fillStyle the text just stayed black. ...

String compare in C#

I have a string like 20090101 and I want to compare it with ????01??. if (input == "----01--") { .... } How can I compare the 5th and 6th characters with "01"? ...

Using fgets to read strings from file in C

I am trying to read strings from a file that has each string on a new line but I think it reads a newline character once instead of a string and I don't know why. If I'm going about reading strings the wrong way please correct me. i=0; F1 = fopen("alg.txt", "r"); F2 = fopen("tul.txt", "w"); if(!feof(F1)) { do{ //start sc...

java: can I convert strings to byte arrays, without a BOM?

Suppose I have this code: String encoding = "UTF-16"; String text = "[Hello StackOverflow]"; byte[] message= text.getBytes(encoding); If I display the byte array in message, the result is: 0000 FE FF 00 5B 00 48 00 65 00 6C 00 6C 00 6F 00 20 ...[.H.e.l.l.o. 0010 00 53 00 74 00 61 00 63 00 6B 00 4F 00 76 00 65 .S.t.a.c....

Print newline in PHP in single quotes

Hey all, I try to use single quotes as much as possible and I've noticed that I can't use \n in single quotes. I know I can just enter a newline literally by pressing return, but that screws up the indentation of my code.. Is there some ASCII character or something that I can type that will produce newline when I'm using single quotes? ...

JavaScript: How to get text from all descendents of an element, disregarding scripts?

My current project involves gathering text content from an element and all of its descendents, based on a provided selector. For example, when supplied the selector #content and run against this HTML: <div id="content"> <p>This is some text.</p> <script type="text/javascript"> var test = true; </script> <p>This is some more...