How to remove all zeros from string's beginning ?
I have a string which is beginning with zeros: string s = "000045zxxcC648700"; How can I remove them so that string will look like: string s = "45zxxcC648700"; ...
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whats the best way to join an array into a readable list
I've got an array listing days of the week: days = ['Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday'] Whats the easiest / best way to output it in a human readable format: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday The best I have is a rather ugly: ', '.join(days[:-2]+['']) + ' and '.join(days[-2:]) ...
C++: Efficiently adding integers to strings
I know how to add integers to strings, but I'm not sure I'm doing it in an efficient matters. I have a class where I often have to return a string plus an integer (a different integer each time), in Java I would do something like public class MyClass { final static String S = "MYSTRING"; private int id = 0; public String getStrin...
Get data from table from a list of strings on MySQL
Hello, How can I query data from a table available on a list of strings? I only want to get the data from the list of strings. Example: Table ID Name 1 Big 2 Small 3 Extra 4 Orange 5 Drink List of Strings: Big Small Extra Thanks! ...
trim last "," delimiter of a string in vb.net
this is my code - With ad.Tables(2) For i As Integer = 0 To .Rows.Count - 1 If .Rows(i)("name") & "" <> "" Then temp &= .Rows(i)("name") & ", " End If Next End With temp = temp.Trim(",") testing &= "&Name="...
Works for Short Input, Fails for Long Input. How to Solve?
I've this program which finds substring in a string. It works for small inputs. But fails for long inputs. Here's the program: //Find Substring in given String #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> main() { //Variable Initialization int i=0,j=0,k=0; char sentence[50],temp[50],search[50]; //Gets Strings printf("Enter Sentence...
PHP String tokenizer not working correctly
I have no clue why strtok decided to break on me. Here is my code. I am tokenizing a string by dollar symbol $. echo 'Tokenizing this by $: ',$aliases,PHP_EOL; if(strlen($aliases) > 0) { //aliases check $token = strtok($aliases, '$'); while($token != NULL) { echo 'Found a token: ',$token,PHP_EOL; if(!isGo...
standard c library for escaping a string.
Is there a standard C library function to escape C-strings? For example, if I had the C string: char example[] = "first line\nsecond line: \"inner quotes\""; And I wanted to print "first line\nsecond line: \"inner quotes\"" Is there a library function that will do that transformation for me? Rolling my own just seems a little sil...
String replacement in PHP
This is my first question on this wonderful website. Lets say I have a string $a="some text..%PROD% more text" There will be just one %..% in the string. I need to replace PROD between the % with another variable content. So I used to do: $a = str_replace('%PROD%',$var,$a); but now the PROD between % started coming in different case...
C++ split string
I am trying to split a string using spaces as a delimiter. I would like to store each token in an array or vector. I have tried. string tempInput; cin >> tempInput; string input[5]; stringstream ss(tempInput); // Insert the string into a stream int i=0; while (ss >> tempInput){ input[i] = tempInput; ...
remove utf-8 figure spaces with php
I have some xml files with figure spaces in it, I need to remove those with php. The utf-8 code for these is e2 80 a9. If I'm not mistaken php does not seem to like 6 byte utf-8 chars, so far at least I'm unable to find a way to delete the figure spaces with functions like preg_replace. Anybody any tips or even better a solution to this...
How do I get number of characters in PHP?
mb_strlen only gives number of bytes,not what I wanted. It should work with multibyte characters. ...
Replacing characters with specified one
Hello All, I have a string as follows - MFMFMF now i want to change this string to FMFMFM how to do this , help needed pls i had tried select replace(replace('mfmfmf','M','F'),'F','M') this gives me result - MMMMMM which i donot what i want the output to be FMFMFM Need your help D.Mahesh ...
Javascript replace last occurence of text in a string
Hi all see my code snippet below: var list = ['one', 'two', 'three', 'four']; var str = 'one two, one three, one four, one'; for ( var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) { if (str.endsWith(list[i]) { str = str.replace(list[i], 'finsih') } } I want to replace the last occurence of the word one with the word finish i...
C++ - Efficient container for large amounts of searchable data?
Hello, everybody! I am implementing a text-based version of Scrabble for a College project. My dictionary is quite large, weighing in at around 400.000 words (std::string). Searching for a valid word will suck, big time, in terms of efficiency if I go for a vector<string> ( O(n) ). Are there any good alternatives? Keep in mind, I'm en...
Ruby: How to get the first character of a string
How can I get the first character in a string using Ruby? Ultimately what I'm doing is taking someone's last name and just creating an initial out of it. So if the string was "Smith" I just want "S". ...
Way to partially match a Ruby string using Regexp
I'm working on 2 cases: assume I have those var: a = "hello" b = "hello-SP" c = "not_hello" Any partial matches I want to accept any string that has the variable a inside, so b and c would match. Patterned match I want to match a string that has a inside, followed by '-', so b would match, c does not. I am having problem, because...
C# matching two text files, case sensitive issue
What I have is two files, sourcecolumns.txt and destcolumns.txt. What I need to do is compare source to dest and if the dest doesn't contain the source value, write it out to a new file. The code below works except I have case sensitive issues like this: source: CPI dest: Cpi These don't match because of captial letters, so I get i...
Is there anything available for .NET to get the differences in two strings?
I'm looking for a way to determine the differences between two strings, and highlight them in both strings. I would suspect that most 'diff' libraries won't work since they show differences in lines (I believe). Either an algorithm or library will work. Thanks, Mark ...
Objective C unable to update UILabel more than once.
I have a method which I created that appends some new text to a UILabel. I've tried two ways of doing this (one is commented out) but both of them only update the label the first time. Any more calls to this method do not update the label. - (void) updateLog: (NSString*) text { /* NSMutableString *newText = [logLabel.text muta...