Programs & Examples On #Operators

Operators are symbols that occur in nearly all programming and coding languages, for performing calculations and comparisons on data.

Regex how to match an optional character

You can make the single letter optional by adding a ? after it as:

([A-Z]{1}?)

The quantifier {1} is redundant so you can drop it.

Not Equal to This OR That in Lua

x ~= 0 or 1 is the same as ((x ~= 0) or 1)

x ~=(0 or 1) is the same as (x ~= 0).

try something like this instead.

function isNot0Or1(x)
    return (x ~= 0 and x ~= 1)
end

print( isNot0Or1(-1) == true )
print( isNot0Or1(0) == false )
print( isNot0Or1(1) == false )

No increment operator (++) in Ruby?

Ruby has no pre/post increment/decrement operator. For instance, x++ or x-- will fail to parse. More importantly, ++x or --x will do nothing! In fact, they behave as multiple unary prefix operators: -x == ---x == -----x == ...... To increment a number, simply write x += 1.

Taken from "Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know " (archive, mirror)

That explains it better than I ever could.

EDIT: and the reason from the language author himself (source):

  1. ++ and -- are NOT reserved operator in Ruby.
  2. C's increment/decrement operators are in fact hidden assignment. They affect variables, not objects. You cannot accomplish assignment via method. Ruby uses +=/-= operator instead.
  3. self cannot be a target of assignment. In addition, altering the value of integer 1 might cause severe confusion throughout the program.

XOR operation with two strings in java

This is the code I'm using:

private static byte[] xor(final byte[] input, final byte[] secret) {
    final byte[] output = new byte[input.length];
    if (secret.length == 0) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("empty security key");
    }
    int spos = 0;
    for (int pos = 0; pos < input.length; ++pos) {
        output[pos] = (byte) (input[pos] ^ secret[spos]);
        ++spos;
        if (spos >= secret.length) {
            spos = 0;
        }
    }
    return output;
}

Using the AND and NOT Operator in Python

You should write :

if (self.a != 0) and (self.b != 0) :

"&" is the bit wise operator and does not suit for boolean operations. The equivalent of "&&" is "and" in Python.

A shorter way to check what you want is to use the "in" operator :

if 0 not in (self.a, self.b) :

You can check if anything is part of a an iterable with "in", it works for :

  • Tuples. I.E : "foo" in ("foo", 1, c, etc) will return true
  • Lists. I.E : "foo" in ["foo", 1, c, etc] will return true
  • Strings. I.E : "a" in "ago" will return true
  • Dict. I.E : "foo" in {"foo" : "bar"} will return true

As an answer to the comments :

Yes, using "in" is slower since you are creating an Tuple object, but really performances are not an issue here, plus readability matters a lot in Python.

For the triangle check, it's easier to read :

0 not in (self.a, self.b, self.c)

Than

(self.a != 0) and (self.b != 0) and (self.c != 0) 

It's easier to refactor too.

Of course, in this example, it really is not that important, it's very simple snippet. But this style leads to a Pythonic code, which leads to a happier programmer (and losing weight, improving sex life, etc.) on big programs.

What is the difference between '/' and '//' when used for division?

Python 2.7 and other upcoming version of python:

  • Division (/)

Divides left hand operand by right hand operand

Example: 4 / 2 = 2

  • Floor Division (//)

The division of operands where the result is the quotient in which the digits after the decimal point are removed. But if one of the operands is negative, the result is floored, i.e., rounded away from zero (towards negative infinity):

Examples: 9//2 = 4 and 9.0//2.0 = 4.0, -11//3 = -4, -11.0//3 = -4.0

Both / Division and // floor division operator are operating in similar fashion.

How to compare two object variables in EL expression language?

Not sure if I get you right, but the simplest way would be something like:

<c:if test="${languageBean.locale == 'en'">
  <f:selectItems value="#{customerBean.selectableCommands_limited_en}" />
</c:if>

Just a quick copy and paste from an app of mine...

HTH

What does the ??!??! operator do in C?

As already stated ??!??! is essentially two trigraphs (??! and ??! again) mushed together that get replaced-translated to ||, i.e the logical OR, by the preprocessor.

The following table containing every trigraph should help disambiguate alternate trigraph combinations:

Trigraph   Replaces

??(        [
??)        ]
??<        {
??>        }
??/        \
??'        ^
??=        #
??!        |
??-        ~

Source: C: A Reference Manual 5th Edition

So a trigraph that looks like ??(??) will eventually map to [], ??(??)??(??) will get replaced by [][] and so on, you get the idea.

Since trigraphs are substituted during preprocessing you could use cpp to get a view of the output yourself, using a silly trigr.c program:

void main(){ const char *s = "??!??!"; } 

and processing it with:

cpp -trigraphs trigr.c 

You'll get a console output of

void main(){ const char *s = "||"; }

As you can notice, the option -trigraphs must be specified or else cpp will issue a warning; this indicates how trigraphs are a thing of the past and of no modern value other than confusing people who might bump into them.


As for the rationale behind the introduction of trigraphs, it is better understood when looking at the history section of ISO/IEC 646:

ISO/IEC 646 and its predecessor ASCII (ANSI X3.4) largely endorsed existing practice regarding character encodings in the telecommunications industry.

As ASCII did not provide a number of characters needed for languages other than English, a number of national variants were made that substituted some less-used characters with needed ones.

(emphasis mine)

So, in essence, some needed characters (those for which a trigraph exists) were replaced in certain national variants. This leads to the alternate representation using trigraphs comprised of characters that other variants still had around.

What is the difference between the | and || or operators?

Just like the & and && operator, the double Operator is a "short-circuit" operator.

For example:

if(condition1 || condition2 || condition3)

If condition1 is true, condition 2 and 3 will NOT be checked.

if(condition1 | condition2 | condition3)

This will check conditions 2 and 3, even if 1 is already true. As your conditions can be quite expensive functions, you can get a good performance boost by using them.

There is one big caveat, NullReferences or similar problems. For example:

if(class != null && class.someVar < 20)

If class is null, the if-statement will stop after class != null is false. If you only use &, it will try to check class.someVar and you get a nice NullReferenceException. With the Or-Operator that may not be that much of a trap as it's unlikely that you trigger something bad, but it's something to keep in mind.

No one ever uses the single & or | operators though, unless you have a design where each condition is a function that HAS to be executed. Sounds like a design smell, but sometimes (rarely) it's a clean way to do stuff. The & operator does "run these 3 functions, and if one of them returns false, execute the else block", while the | does "only run the else block if none return false" - can be useful, but as said, often it's a design smell.

There is a Second use of the | and & operator though: Bitwise Operations.

Is there a C# case insensitive equals operator?

The best way to compare 2 strings ignoring the case of the letters is to use the String.Equals static method specifying an ordinal ignore case string comparison. This is also the fastest way, much faster than converting the strings to lower or upper case and comparing them after that.

I tested the performance of both approaches and the ordinal ignore case string comparison was more than 9 times faster! It is also more reliable than converting strings to lower or upper case (check out the Turkish i problem). So always use the String.Equals method to compare strings for equality:

String.Equals(string1, string2, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);

If you want to perform a culture specific string comparison you can use the following code:

String.Equals(string1, string2, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase);

Please note that the second example uses the the string comparison logic of the current culture, which makes it slower than the "ordinal ignore case" comparison in the first example, so if you don't need any culture specific string comparison logic and you are after maximum performance, use the "ordinal ignore case" comparison.

For more information, read the full story on my blog.

What is the !! (not not) operator in JavaScript?

I just wanted to add that

if(variableThing){
  // do something
}

is the same as

if(!!variableThing){
  // do something
}

But this can be an issue when something is undefined.

// a === undefined, b is an empty object (eg. b.asdf === undefined)
var a, b = {};

// Both of these give error a.foo is not defined etc.
// you'd see the same behavior for !!a.foo and !!b.foo.bar

a.foo 
b.foo.bar

// This works -- these return undefined

a && a.foo
b.foo && b.foo.bar
b && b.foo && b.foo.bar

The trick here is the chain of &&s will return the first falsey value it finds -- and this can be fed to an if statement etc. So if b.foo is undefined, it will return undefined and skip the b.foo.bar statement, and we get no error.

The above return undefined but if you have an empty string, false, null, 0, undefined those values will return and soon as we encounter them in the chain -- [] and {} are both "truthy" and we will continue down the so-called "&& chain" to the next value to the right.

P.S. Another way of doing the same thing is (b || {}).foo, because if b is undefined then b || {} will be {}, and you'll be accessing a value in an empty object (no error) instead of trying to access a value within "undefined" (causes an error). So, (b || {}).foo is the same as b && b.foo and ((b || {}).foo || {}).bar is the same as b && b.foo && b.foo.bar.

How can I calculate divide and modulo for integers in C#?

Before asking questions of this kind, please check MSDN documentation.

When you divide two integers, the result is always an integer. For example, the result of 7 / 3 is 2. To determine the remainder of 7 / 3, use the remainder operator (%).

int a = 5;
int b = 3;

int div = a / b; //quotient is 1
int mod = a % b; //remainder is 2

What does the percentage sign mean in Python

What does the percentage sign mean?

It's an operator in Python that can mean several things depending on the context. A lot of what follows was already mentioned (or hinted at) in the other answers but I thought it could be helpful to provide a more extensive summary.

% for Numbers: Modulo operation / Remainder / Rest

The percentage sign is an operator in Python. It's described as:

x % y       remainder of x / y

So it gives you the remainder/rest that remains if you "floor divide" x by y. Generally (at least in Python) given a number x and a divisor y:

x == y * (x // y) + (x % y)

For example if you divide 5 by 2:

>>> 5 // 2
2
>>> 5 % 2
1

>>> 2 * (5 // 2) + (5 % 2)
5

In general you use the modulo operation to test if a number divides evenly by another number, that's because multiples of a number modulo that number returns 0:

>>> 15 % 5  # 15 is 3 * 5
0

>>> 81 % 9  # 81 is 9 * 9
0

That's how it's used in your example, it cannot be a prime if it's a multiple of another number (except for itself and one), that's what this does:

if n % x == 0:
    break

If you feel that n % x == 0 isn't very descriptive you could put it in another function with a more descriptive name:

def is_multiple(number, divisor):
    return number % divisor == 0

...

if is_multiple(n, x):
    break

Instead of is_multiple it could also be named evenly_divides or something similar. That's what is tested here.

Similar to that it's often used to determine if a number is "odd" or "even":

def is_odd(number):
    return number % 2 == 1

def is_even(number):
    return number % 2 == 0

And in some cases it's also used for array/list indexing when wrap-around (cycling) behavior is wanted, then you just modulo the "index" by the "length of the array" to achieve that:

>>> l = [0, 1, 2]
>>> length = len(l)
>>> for index in range(10):
...     print(l[index % length])
0
1
2
0
1
2
0
1
2
0

Note that there is also a function for this operator in the standard library operator.mod (and the alias operator.__mod__):

>>> import operator
>>> operator.mod(5, 2)  # equivalent to 5 % 2
1

But there is also the augmented assignment %= which assigns the result back to the variable:

>>> a = 5
>>> a %= 2  # identical to: a = a % 2
>>> a
1

% for strings: printf-style String Formatting

For strings the meaning is completely different, there it's one way (in my opinion the most limited and ugly) for doing string formatting:

>>> "%s is %s." % ("this", "good") 
'this is good'

Here the % in the string represents a placeholder followed by a formatting specification. In this case I used %s which means that it expects a string. Then the string is followed by a % which indicates that the string on the left hand side will be formatted by the right hand side. In this case the first %s is replaced by the first argument this and the second %s is replaced by the second argument (good).

Note that there are much better (probably opinion-based) ways to format strings:

>>> "{} is {}.".format("this", "good")
'this is good.'

% in Jupyter/IPython: magic commands

To quote the docs:

To Jupyter users: Magics are specific to and provided by the IPython kernel. Whether magics are available on a kernel is a decision that is made by the kernel developer on a per-kernel basis. To work properly, Magics must use a syntax element which is not valid in the underlying language. For example, the IPython kernel uses the % syntax element for magics as % is not a valid unary operator in Python. While, the syntax element has meaning in other languages.

This is regularly used in Jupyter notebooks and similar:

In [1]:  a = 10
         b = 20
         %timeit a + b   # one % -> line-magic

54.6 ns ± 2.7 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000000 loops each)

In [2]:  %%timeit  # two %% -> cell magic 
         a ** b

362 ns ± 8.4 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)

The % operator on arrays (in the NumPy / Pandas ecosystem)

The % operator is still the modulo operator when applied to these arrays, but it returns an array containing the remainder of each element in the array:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> a = np.arange(10)
>>> a
array([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9])

>>> a % 2
array([0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1])

Customizing the % operator for your own classes

Of course you can customize how your own classes work when the % operator is applied to them. Generally you should only use it to implement modulo operations! But that's a guideline, not a hard rule.

Just to provide a simple example that shows how it works:

class MyNumber(object):
    def __init__(self, value):
        self.value = value

    def __mod__(self, other):
        print("__mod__ called on '{!r}'".format(self))
        return self.value % other

    def __repr__(self):
        return "{self.__class__.__name__}({self.value!r})".format(self=self)

This example isn't really useful, it just prints and then delegates the operator to the stored value, but it shows that __mod__ is called when % is applied to an instance:

>>> a = MyNumber(10)
>>> a % 2
__mod__ called on 'MyNumber(10)'
0

Note that it also works for %= without explicitly needing to implement __imod__:

>>> a = MyNumber(10)
>>> a %= 2
__mod__ called on 'MyNumber(10)'

>>> a
0

However you could also implement __imod__ explicitly to overwrite the augmented assignment:

class MyNumber(object):
    def __init__(self, value):
        self.value = value

    def __mod__(self, other):
        print("__mod__ called on '{!r}'".format(self))
        return self.value % other

    def __imod__(self, other):
        print("__imod__ called on '{!r}'".format(self))
        self.value %= other
        return self

    def __repr__(self):
        return "{self.__class__.__name__}({self.value!r})".format(self=self)

Now %= is explicitly overwritten to work in-place:

>>> a = MyNumber(10)
>>> a %= 2
__imod__ called on 'MyNumber(10)'

>>> a
MyNumber(0)

How do I print the percent sign(%) in c

Try printing out this way

printf("%%");

What is the "-->" operator in C/C++?

Here -- is the unary post decrement operator.

 while (x-- > 0) // x goes to 0
 {
     printf("%d ", x);
 }
  • In the beginning, the condition will evaluate as (x > 0) // 10 > 0
  • Now because the condition is true, it will go into the loop with a decremented value x-- // x = 9
  • That's why the first printed value is 9
  • And so on. In the last loop x=1, so the condition is true. As per the unary operator, the value changed to x = 0 at the time of print.
  • Now, x = 0, which evaluates the condition (x > 0 ) as false and the while loop exits.

Bitwise operation and usage

Bit representations of integers are often used in scientific computing to represent arrays of true-false information because a bitwise operation is much faster than iterating through an array of booleans. (Higher level languages may use the idea of a bit array.)

A nice and fairly simple example of this is the general solution to the game of Nim. Take a look at the Python code on the Wikipedia page. It makes heavy use of bitwise exclusive or, ^.

What is the instanceof operator in JavaScript?

//Vehicle is a function. But by naming conventions
//(first letter is uppercase), it is also an object
//constructor function ("class").
function Vehicle(numWheels) {
    this.numWheels = numWheels;
}

//We can create new instances and check their types.
myRoadster = new Vehicle(4);
alert(myRoadster instanceof Vehicle);

Can't operator == be applied to generic types in C#?


bool Compare(T x, T y) where T : class { return x == y; }

The above will work because == is taken care of in case of user-defined reference types.
In case of value types, == can be overridden. In which case, "!=" should also be defined.

I think that could be the reason, it disallows generic comparison using "==".

Is there a conditional ternary operator in VB.NET?

iif has always been available in VB, even in VB6.

Dim foo as String = iif(bar = buz, cat, dog)

It is not a true operator, as such, but a function in the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace.

What does ||= (or-equals) mean in Ruby?

Basically,


x ||= y means

if x has any value leave it alone and do not change the value, otherwise set x to y

Is there a “not in” operator in JavaScript for checking object properties?

Personally I find

if (id in tutorTimes === false) { ... }

easier to read than

if (!(id in tutorTimes)) { ... }

but both will work.

How does the bitwise complement operator (~ tilde) work?

Basically action is a complement not a negation .

Here x= ~x produce results -(x+1) always .

x = ~2

-(2+1)

-3

How is the AND/OR operator represented as in Regular Expressions?

Does this work without alternation?

^((part)1(, \22)?)?(part2)?$

or why not this?

^((part)1(, (\22))?)?(\4)?$

The first works for all conditions the second for all but part2(using GNU sed 4.1.5)

Logical XOR operator in C++?

I use "xor" (it seems it's a keyword; in Code::Blocks at least it gets bold) just as you can use "and" instead of && and "or" instead of ||.

if (first xor second)...

Yes, it is bitwise. Sorry.

What does operator "dot" (.) mean?

There is a whole page in the MATLAB documentation dedicated to this topic: Array vs. Matrix Operations. The gist of it is below:

MATLAB® has two different types of arithmetic operations: array operations and matrix operations. You can use these arithmetic operations to perform numeric computations, for example, adding two numbers, raising the elements of an array to a given power, or multiplying two matrices.

Matrix operations follow the rules of linear algebra. By contrast, array operations execute element by element operations and support multidimensional arrays. The period character (.) distinguishes the array operations from the matrix operations. However, since the matrix and array operations are the same for addition and subtraction, the character pairs .+ and .- are unnecessary.

Not equal to != and !== in PHP

!== should match the value and data type

!= just match the value ignoring the data type

$num = '1';
$num2 = 1;

$num == $num2; // returns true    
$num === $num2; // returns false because $num is a string and $num2 is an integer

What is the use of the @ symbol in PHP?

Suppose we haven't used the "@" operator then our code would look like this:

$fileHandle = fopen($fileName, $writeAttributes);

And what if the file we are trying to open is not found? It will show an error message.

To suppress the error message we are using the "@" operator like:

$fileHandle = @fopen($fileName, $writeAttributes);

Why are there no ++ and --? operators in Python?

Of course, we could say "Guido just decided that way", but I think the question is really about the reasons for that decision. I think there are several reasons:

  • It mixes together statements and expressions, which is not good practice. See http://norvig.com/python-iaq.html
  • It generally encourages people to write less readable code
  • Extra complexity in the language implementation, which is unnecessary in Python, as already mentioned

Reference — What does this symbol mean in PHP?

_ Alias for gettext()

The underscore character '_' as in _() is an alias to the gettext() function.

R: += (plus equals) and ++ (plus plus) equivalent from c++/c#/java, etc.?

R doesn't have a concept of increment operator (as for example ++ in C). However, it is not difficult to implement one yourself, for example:

inc <- function(x)
{
 eval.parent(substitute(x <- x + 1))
}

In that case you would call

x <- 10
inc(x)

However, it introduces function call overhead, so it's slower than typing x <- x + 1 yourself. If I'm not mistaken increment operator was introduced to make job for compiler easier, as it could convert the code to those machine language instructions directly.

Is there an exponent operator in C#?

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this, but for the simple (and probably most encountered) case of squaring, you just multiply by itself.

float someNumber;

float result = someNumber * someNumber;

What do all of Scala's symbolic operators mean?

Oohoo so you want an exhaustive answer? Here's a fun, hopefully complete, and rather lengthy list for you :)

http://jim-mcbeath.blogspot.com/2008/12/scala-operator-cheat-sheet.html

(Disclaimer - the post was written in 2008 so may be a little out of date)

!! AbstractActor
!! Actor // Sends msg to this actor and immediately ...
!! Proxy
! Actor // Sends msg to this actor (asynchronous).
! Channel // Sends a message to this Channel.
! OutputChannel // Sends msg to this ...
! Proxy // Sends msg to this ...
!= Any // o != arg0 is the same as !(o == (arg0)).
!= AnyRef
!= Boolean
!= Byte
!= Char
!= Double
!= Float
!= Int
!= Long
!= Short
!? AbstractActor
!? Actor // Sends msg to this actor and awaits reply ...
!? Channel // Sends a message to this Channel and ...
!? Proxy
% BigInt // Remainder of BigInts
% Byte
% Char
% Double
% Float
% Int
% Long
% Short
% Elem // Returns a new element with updated attributes, resolving namespace uris from this element's scope. ...
&&& Parsers.Parser
&& Boolean
&+ NodeBuffer // Append given object to this buffer, returns reference on this NodeBuffer ...
& BigInt // Bitwise and of BigInts
& Boolean
& Byte
& Char
& Enumeration.Set32 // Equivalent to * for bit sets. ...
& Enumeration.Set64 // Equivalent to * for bit sets. ...
& Enumeration.SetXX // Equivalent to * for bit sets. ...
& Int
& Long
& Short
&~ BigInt // Bitwise and-not of BigInts. Returns a BigInt whose value is (this & ~that).
&~ Enumeration.Set32 // Equivalent to - for bit sets. ...
&~ Enumeration.Set64 // Equivalent to - for bit sets. ...
&~ Enumeration.SetXX // Equivalent to - for bit sets. ...
>>> Byte
>>> Char
>>> Int
>>> Long
>>> Short
>> BigInt // (Signed) rightshift of BigInt
>> Byte
>> Char
>> Int
>> Long
>> Short
>> Parsers.Parser // Returns into(fq)
>> Parsers.Parser // Returns into(fq)
> BigDecimal // Greater-than comparison of BigDecimals
> BigInt // Greater-than comparison of BigInts
> Byte
> Char
> Double
> Float
> Int
> Long
> Ordered
> PartiallyOrdered
> Short
>= BigDecimal // Greater-than-or-equals comparison of BigDecimals
>= BigInt // Greater-than-or-equals comparison of BigInts
>= Byte
>= Char
>= Double
>= Float
>= Int
>= Long
>= Ordered
>= PartiallyOrdered
>= Short
<< BigInt // Leftshift of BigInt
<< Byte
<< Char
<< Int
<< Long
<< Short
<< Buffer // Send a message to this scriptable object.
<< BufferProxy // Send a message to this scriptable object.
<< Map // Send a message to this scriptable object.
<< MapProxy // Send a message to this scriptable object.
<< Scriptable // Send a message to this scriptable object.
<< Set // Send a message to this scriptable object.
<< SetProxy // Send a message to this scriptable object.
<< SynchronizedBuffer // Send a message to this scriptable object.
<< SynchronizedMap // Send a message to this scriptable object.
<< SynchronizedSet // Send a message to this scriptable object.
< BigDecimal // Less-than of BigDecimals
< BigInt // Less-than of BigInts
< Byte
< Char
< Double
< Float
< Int
< Long
< Ordered
< PartiallyOrdered
< Short
< OffsetPosition // Compare this position to another, by first comparing their line numbers, ...
< Position // Compare this position to another, by first comparing their line numbers, ...
<= BigDecimal // Less-than-or-equals comparison of BigDecimals
<= BigInt // Less-than-or-equals comparison of BigInts
<= Byte
<= Char
<= Double
<= Float
<= Int
<= Long
<= Ordered
<= PartiallyOrdered
<= Short
<~ Parsers.Parser // A parser combinator for sequential composition which keeps only the left result
** Enumeration.SetXX
** Set // Intersect. It computes an intersection with set that. ...
** Set // This method is an alias for intersect. ...
* BigDecimal // Multiplication of BigDecimals
* BigInt // Multiplication of BigInts
* Byte
* Char
* Double
* Float
* Int
* Long
* Short
* Set
* RichString // return n times the current string
* Parsers.Parser // Returns a parser that repeatedly parses what this parser parses, interleaved with the `sep' parser. ...
* Parsers.Parser // Returns a parser that repeatedly parses what this parser parses
* Parsers.Parser // Returns a parser that repeatedly parses what this parser parses, interleaved with the `sep' parser. ...
* Parsers.Parser // Returns a parser that repeatedly parses what this parser parses, interleaved with the `sep' parser.
* Parsers.Parser // Returns a parser that repeatedly parses what this parser parses
++: ArrayBuffer // Prepends a number of elements provided by an iterable object ...
++: Buffer // Prepends a number of elements provided by an iterable object ...
++: BufferProxy // Prepends a number of elements provided by an iterable object ...
++: SynchronizedBuffer // Prepends a number of elements provided by an iterable object ...
++ Array // Returns an array consisting of all elements of this array followed ...
++ Enumeration.SetXX
++ Iterable // Appends two iterable objects.
++ IterableProxy // Appends two iterable objects.
++ Iterator // Returns a new iterator that first yields the elements of this ...
++ List // Appends two list objects.
++ RandomAccessSeq // Appends two iterable objects.
++ RandomAccessSeqProxy // Appends two iterable objects.
++ Seq // Appends two iterable objects.
++ SeqProxy // Appends two iterable objects.
++ IntMap // Add a sequence of key/value pairs to this map.
++ LongMap // Add a sequence of key/value pairs to this map.
++ Map // Add a sequence of key/value pairs to this map.
++ Set // Add all the elements provided by an iterator ...
++ Set // Add all the elements provided by an iterator to the set.
++ SortedMap // Add a sequence of key/value pairs to this map.
++ SortedSet // Add all the elements provided by an iterator ...
++ Stack // Push all elements provided by the given iterable object onto ...
++ Stack // Push all elements provided by the given iterator object onto ...
++ TreeHashMap
++ TreeHashMap // Add a sequence of key/value pairs to this map.
++ Collection // Operator shortcut for addAll.
++ Set // Operator shortcut for addAll.
++ ArrayBuffer // Appends two iterable objects.
++ Buffer // Appends a number of elements provided by an iterable object ...
++ Buffer // Appends a number of elements provided by an iterator ...
++ Buffer // Appends two iterable objects.
++ BufferProxy // Appends a number of elements provided by an iterable object ...
++ Map // Add a sequence of key/value pairs to this map.
++ MapProxy // Add a sequence of key/value pairs to this map.
++ PriorityQueue
++ Set // Add all the elements provided by an iterator ...
++ SynchronizedBuffer // Appends a number of elements provided by an iterable object ...
++ RichString // Appends two iterable objects.
++ RichStringBuilder // Appends a number of elements provided by an iterable object ...
++ RichStringBuilder // Appends two iterable objects.
++= Map // Add a sequence of key/value pairs to this map.
++= MapWrapper // Add a sequence of key/value pairs to this map.
++= ArrayBuffer // Appends a number of elements in an array
++= ArrayBuffer // Appends a number of elements provided by an iterable object ...
++= ArrayStack // Pushes all the provided elements onto the stack.
++= Buffer // Appends a number of elements in an array
++= Buffer // Appends a number of elements provided by an iterable object ...
++= Buffer // Appends a number of elements provided by an iterator
++= BufferProxy // Appends a number of elements provided by an iterable object ...
++= Map // Add a sequence of key/value pairs to this map.
++= MapProxy // Add a sequence of key/value pairs to this map.
++= PriorityQueue // Adds all elements provided by an Iterable object ...
++= PriorityQueue // Adds all elements provided by an iterator into the priority queue.
++= PriorityQueueProxy // Adds all elements provided by an Iterable object ...
++= PriorityQueueProxy // Adds all elements provided by an iterator into the priority queue.
++= Queue // Adds all elements provided by an Iterable object ...
++= Queue // Adds all elements provided by an iterator ...
++= QueueProxy // Adds all elements provided by an Iterable object ...
++= QueueProxy // Adds all elements provided by an iterator ...
++= Set // Add all the elements provided by an iterator ...
++= SetProxy // Add all the elements provided by an iterator ...
++= Stack // Pushes all elements provided by an Iterable object ...
++= Stack // Pushes all elements provided by an iterator ...
++= StackProxy // Pushes all elements provided by an Iterable object ...
++= StackProxy // Pushes all elements provided by an iterator ...
++= SynchronizedBuffer // Appends a number of elements provided by an iterable object ...
++= SynchronizedMap // Add a sequence of key/value pairs to this map.
++= SynchronizedPriorityQueue // Adds all elements provided by an Iterable object ...
++= SynchronizedPriorityQueue // Adds all elements provided by an iterator into the priority queue.
++= SynchronizedQueue // Adds all elements provided by an Iterable object ...
++= SynchronizedQueue // Adds all elements provided by an iterator ...
++= SynchronizedSet // Add all the elements provided by an iterator ...
++= SynchronizedStack // Pushes all elements provided by an Iterable object ...
++= SynchronizedStack // Pushes all elements provided by an iterator ...
++= RichStringBuilder // Appends a number of elements provided by an iterable object ...
+: ArrayBuffer // Prepends a single element to this buffer and return ...
+: Buffer // Prepend a single element to this buffer and return ...
+: BufferProxy // Prepend a single element to this buffer and return ...
+: ListBuffer // Prepends a single element to this buffer. It takes constant ...
+: ObservableBuffer // Prepend a single element to this buffer and return ...
+: SynchronizedBuffer // Prepend a single element to this buffer and return ...
+: RichStringBuilder // Prepend a single element to this buffer and return ...
+: BufferWrapper // Prepend a single element to this buffer and return ...
+: RefBuffer // Prepend a single element to this buffer and return ...
+ BigDecimal // Addition of BigDecimals
+ BigInt // Addition of BigInts
+ Byte
+ Char
+ Double
+ Enumeration.SetXX // Create a new set with an additional element.
+ Float
+ Int
+ List
+ Long
+ Short
+ EmptySet // Create a new set with an additional element.
+ HashSet // Create a new set with an additional element.
+ ListSet.Node // This method creates a new set with an additional element.
+ ListSet // This method creates a new set with an additional element.
+ Map
+ Map // Add a key/value pair to this map.
+ Map // Add two or more key/value pairs to this map.
+ Queue // Creates a new queue with element added at the end ...
+ Queue // Returns a new queue with all all elements provided by ...
+ Set // Add two or more elements to this set.
+ Set // Create a new set with an additional element.
+ Set1 // Create a new set with an additional element.
+ Set2 // Create a new set with an additional element.
+ Set3 // Create a new set with an additional element.
+ Set4 // Create a new set with an additional element.
+ SortedMap // Add a key/value pair to this map.
+ SortedMap // Add two or more key/value pairs to this map.
+ SortedSet // Create a new set with an additional element.
+ Stack // Push all elements provided by the given iterable object onto ...
+ Stack // Push an element on the stack.
+ TreeSet // A new TreeSet with the entry added is returned,
+ Buffer // adds "a" from the collection. Useful for chaining.
+ Collection // adds "a" from the collection. Useful for chaining.
+ Map // Add a key/value pair to this map.
+ Set // adds "a" from the collection. Useful for chaining.
+ Buffer // Append a single element to this buffer and return ...
+ BufferProxy // Append a single element to this buffer and return ...
+ Map // Add a key/value pair to this map.
+ Map // Add two or more key/value pairs to this map.
+ MapProxy // Add a key/value pair to this map.
+ MapProxy // Add two or more key/value pairs to this map.
+ ObservableBuffer // Append a single element to this buffer and return ...
+ PriorityQueue
+ Set // Add a new element to the set.
+ Set // Add two or more elements to this set.
+ SynchronizedBuffer // Append a single element to this buffer and return ...
+ Parsers.Parser // Returns a parser that repeatedly (at least once) parses what this parser parses.
+ Parsers.Parser // Returns a parser that repeatedly (at least once) parses what this parser parses.
+= Collection // adds "a" from the collection.
+= Map // Add a key/value pair to this map.
+= ArrayBuffer // Appends a single element to this buffer and returns ...
+= ArrayStack // Alias for push.
+= BitSet // Sets i-th bit to true. ...
+= Buffer // Append a single element to this buffer.
+= BufferProxy // Append a single element to this buffer.
+= HashSet // Add a new element to the set.
+= ImmutableSetAdaptor // Add a new element to the set.
+= JavaSetAdaptor // Add a new element to the set.
+= LinkedHashSet // Add a new element to the set.
+= ListBuffer // Appends a single element to this buffer. It takes constant ...
+= Map // Add a key/value pair to this map.
+= Map // Add two or more key/value pairs to this map.
+= Map // This method defines syntactic sugar for adding or modifying ...
+= MapProxy // Add a key/value pair to this map.
+= MapProxy // Add two or more key/value pairs to this map.
+= ObservableSet // Add a new element to the set.
+= PriorityQueue // Add two or more elements to this set.
+= PriorityQueue // Inserts a single element into the priority queue.
+= PriorityQueueProxy // Inserts a single element into the priority queue.
+= Queue // Inserts a single element at the end of the queue.
+= QueueProxy // Inserts a single element at the end of the queue.
+= Set // Add a new element to the set.
+= Set // Add two or more elements to this set.
+= SetProxy // Add a new element to the set.
+= Stack // Pushes a single element on top of the stack.
+= StackProxy // Pushes a single element on top of the stack.
+= SynchronizedBuffer // Append a single element to this buffer.
+= SynchronizedMap // Add a key/value pair to this map.
+= SynchronizedMap // Add two or more key/value pairs to this map.
+= SynchronizedPriorityQueue // Inserts a single element into the priority queue.
+= SynchronizedQueue // Inserts a single element at the end of the queue.
+= SynchronizedSet // Add a new element to the set.
+= SynchronizedStack // Pushes a single element on top of the stack.
+= RichStringBuilder // Append a single element to this buffer.
+= Reactions // Add a reaction.
+= RefBuffer // Append a single element to this buffer.
+= CachedFileStorage // adds a node, setting this.dirty to true as a side effect
+= IndexedStorage // adds a node, setting this.dirty to true as a side effect
+= SetStorage // adds a node, setting this.dirty to true as a side effect
-> Map.MapTo
-> Map.MapTo
-- List // Computes the difference between this list and the given list ...
-- Map // Remove a sequence of keys from this map
-- Set // Remove all the elements provided by an iterator ...
-- SortedMap // Remove a sequence of keys from this map
-- MutableIterable // Operator shortcut for removeAll.
-- Set // Operator shortcut for removeAll.
-- Map // Remove a sequence of keys from this map
-- MapProxy // Remove a sequence of keys from this map
-- Set // Remove all the elements provided by an iterator ...
--= Map // Remove a sequence of keys from this map
--= MapProxy // Remove a sequence of keys from this map
--= Set // Remove all the elements provided by an iterator ...
--= SetProxy // Remove all the elements provided by an iterator ...
--= SynchronizedMap // Remove a sequence of keys from this map
--= SynchronizedSet // Remove all the elements provided by an iterator ...
- BigDecimal // Subtraction of BigDecimals
- BigInt // Subtraction of BigInts
- Byte
- Char
- Double
- Enumeration.SetXX // Remove a single element from a set.
- Float
- Int
- List // Computes the difference between this list and the given object ...
- Long
- Short
- EmptyMap // Remove a key from this map
- EmptySet // Remove a single element from a set.
- HashMap // Remove a key from this map
- HashSet // Remove a single element from a set.
- IntMap // Remove a key from this map
- ListMap.Node // Creates a new mapping without the given key. ...
- ListMap // This creates a new mapping without the given key. ...
- ListSet.Node // - can be used to remove a single element from ...
- ListSet // - can be used to remove a single element from ...
- LongMap // Remove a key from this map
- Map // Remove a key from this map
- Map // Remove two or more keys from this map
- Map1 // Remove a key from this map
- Map2 // Remove a key from this map
- Map3 // Remove a key from this map
- Map4 // Remove a key from this map
- Set // Remove a single element from a set.
- Set // Remove two or more elements from this set.
- Set1 // Remove a single element from a set.
- Set2 // Remove a single element from a set.
- Set3 // Remove a single element from a set.
- Set4 // Remove a single element from a set.
- SortedMap // Remove a key from this map
- SortedMap // Remove two or more keys from this map
- TreeHashMap // Remove a key from this map
- TreeMap // Remove a key from this map
- TreeSet // Remove a single element from a set.
- UnbalancedTreeMap.Node // Remove a key from this map
- UnbalancedTreeMap // Remove a key from this map
- Map // Remove a key from this map
- MutableIterable
- Set
- ListBuffer // Removes a single element from the buffer and return ...
- Map // Remove a key from this map
- Map // Remove two or more keys from this map
- MapProxy // Remove a key from this map
- MapProxy // Remove two or more keys from this map
- Set // Remove a new element from the set.
- Set // Remove two or more elements from this set.
-= Buffer // removes "a" from the collection.
-= Collection // removes "a" from the collection.
-= Map // Remove a key from this map, noop if key is not present.
-= BitSet // Clears the i-th bit.
-= Buffer // Removes a single element from this buffer, at its first occurrence. ...
-= HashMap // Remove a key from this map, noop if key is not present.
-= HashSet // Removes a single element from a set.
-= ImmutableMapAdaptor // Remove a key from this map, noop if key is not present.
-= ImmutableSetAdaptor // Removes a single element from a set.
-= JavaMapAdaptor // Remove a key from this map, noop if key is not present.
-= JavaSetAdaptor // Removes a single element from a set.
-= LinkedHashMap // Remove a key from this map, noop if key is not present.
-= LinkedHashSet // Removes a single element from a set.
-= ListBuffer // Remove a single element from this buffer. It takes linear time ...
-= Map // Remove a key from this map, noop if key is not present.
-= Map // Remove two or more keys from this map
-= MapProxy // Remove a key from this map, noop if key is not present.
-= MapProxy // Remove two or more keys from this map
-= ObservableMap // Remove a key from this map, noop if key is not present.
-= ObservableSet // Removes a single element from a set.
-= OpenHashMap // Remove a key from this map, noop if key is not present.
-= Set // Remove two or more elements from this set.
-= Set // Removes a single element from a set.
-= SetProxy // Removes a single element from a set.
-= SynchronizedMap // Remove a key from this map, noop if key is not present.
-= SynchronizedMap // Remove two or more keys from this map
-= SynchronizedSet // Removes a single element from a set.
-= Reactions // Remove the given reaction.
-= CachedFileStorage // removes a tree, setting this.dirty to true as a side effect
-= IndexedStorage // removes a tree, setting this.dirty to true as a side effect
/% BigInt // Returns a pair of two BigInts containing (this / that) and (this % that).
/: Iterable // Similar to foldLeft but can be used as ...
/: IterableProxy // Similar to foldLeft but can be used as ...
/: Iterator // Similar to foldLeft but can be used as ...
/ BigDecimal // Division of BigDecimals
/ BigInt // Division of BigInts
/ Byte
/ Char
/ Double
/ Float
/ Int
/ Long
/ Short
:/: Document
::: List
:: List
:: Document
:\ Iterable // An alias for foldRight. ...
:\ IterableProxy // An alias for foldRight. ...
:\ Iterator // An alias for foldRight. ...
== Any // o == arg0 is the same as o.equals(arg0).
== AnyRef // o == arg0 is the same as if (o eq null) arg0 eq null else o.equals(arg0).
== Boolean
== Byte
== Char
== Double
== Float
== Int
== Long
== Short
? Actor // Receives the next message from this actor's mailbox.
? Channel // Receives the next message from this Channel.
? InputChannel // Receives the next message from this Channel.
? Parsers.Parser // Returns a parser that optionally parses what this parser parses.
? Parsers.Parser // Returns a parser that optionally parses what this parser parses.
\ NodeSeq // Projection function. Similar to XPath, use this \ "foo"
\\ NodeSeq // projection function. Similar to XPath, use this \\ 'foo
^ BigInt // Bitwise exclusive-or of BigInts
^ Boolean
^ Byte
^ Char
^ Int
^ Long
^ Short
^? Parsers.Parser // A parser combinator for partial function application
^? Parsers.Parser // A parser combinator for partial function application
^^ Parsers.Parser // A parser combinator for function application
^^ Parsers.Parser // A parser combinator for function application
^^ Parsers.UnitParser // A parser combinator for function application
^^^ Parsers.Parser
| BigInt // Bitwise or of BigInts
| Boolean
| Byte
| Char
| Enumeration.Set32 // Equivalent to ++ for bit sets. Returns a set ...
| Enumeration.Set32 // Equivalent to + for bit sets. Returns a set ...
| Enumeration.Set64 // Equivalent to ++ for bit sets. Returns a set ...
| Enumeration.Set64 // Equivalent to + for bit sets. Returns a set ...
| Enumeration.SetXX // Equivalent to ++ for bit sets. Returns a set ...
| Enumeration.SetXX // Equivalent to + for bit sets. Returns a set ...
| Int
| Long
| Short
| Parsers.Parser // A parser combinator for alternative composition
| Parsers.Parser // A parser combinator for alternative composition
| Parsers.UnitParser // A parser combinator for alternative composition
|| Boolean
||| Parsers.Parser
||| Parsers.Parser // A parser combinator for alternative with longest match composition
||| Parsers.Parser // A parser combinator for alternative with longest match composition
||| Parsers.UnitParser // A parser combinator for alternative with longest match composition
~! Parsers.Parser // A parser combinator for non-back-tracking sequential composition
~! Parsers.Parser // A parser combinator for non-back-tracking sequential composition with a unit-parser
~! Parsers.Parser // A parser combinator for non-back-tracking sequential composition
~! Parsers.UnitParser // A parser combinator for non-back-tracking sequential composition with a unit-parser
~! Parsers.UnitParser // A parser combinator for non-back-tracking sequential composition
~> Parsers.Parser // A parser combinator for sequential composition which keeps only the right result
~ BigInt // Returns the bitwise complement of this BigNum
~ Parsers.OnceParser // A parser combinator for sequential composition
~ Parsers.Parser // A parser combinator for sequential composition
~ Parsers
~ Parsers.OnceParser // A parser combinator for sequential composition with a unit-parser
~ Parsers.OnceParser // A parser combinator for sequential composition
~ Parsers.Parser // A parser combinator for sequential composition with a unit-parser
~ Parsers.Parser // A parser combinator for sequential composition
~ Parsers.UnitOnceParser // A parser combinator for sequential composition with a unit-parser
~ Parsers.UnitOnceParser // A parser combinator for sequential composition
~ Parsers.UnitParser // A parser combinator for sequential composition with a unit-parser
~ Parsers.UnitParser // A parser combinator for sequential composition
unary_! Boolean
unary_+ Byte
unary_+ Char
unary_+ Double
unary_+ Float
unary_+ Int
unary_+ Long
unary_+ Short
unary_- BigDecimal // Returns a BigDecimal whose value is the negation of this BigDecimal
unary_- BigInt // Returns a BigInt whose value is the negation of this BigInt
unary_- Byte
unary_- Char
unary_- Double
unary_- Float
unary_- Int
unary_- Long
unary_- Short
unary_~ Byte
unary_~ Char
unary_~ Int
unary_~ Long
unary_~ Short

Greater than and less than in one statement

Nowadays you can use lodash:

var x = 1;
var y = 5;
var z = 3;
_.inRange(z,x,y);
//results true

Boolean operators ( &&, -a, ||, -o ) in Bash

-a and -o are the older and/or operators for the test command. && and || are and/or operators for the shell. So (assuming an old shell) in your first case,

[ "$1" = 'yes' ] && [ -r $2.txt ]

The shell is evaluating the and condition. In your second case,

[ "$1" = 'yes' -a $2 -lt 3 ]

The test command (or builtin test) is evaluating the and condition.

Of course in all modern or semi-modern shells, the test command is built in to the shell, so there really isn't any or much difference. In modern shells, the if statement can be written:

[[ $1 == yes && -r $2.txt ]]

Which is more similar to modern programming languages and thus is more readable.

Use of "instanceof" in Java

instanceof can be used to determine the actual type of an object:

class A { }  
class C extends A { } 
class D extends A { } 

public static void testInstance(){
    A c = new C();
    A d = new D();
    Assert.assertTrue(c instanceof A && d instanceof A);
    Assert.assertTrue(c instanceof C && d instanceof D);
    Assert.assertFalse(c instanceof D);
    Assert.assertFalse(d instanceof C);
}

Does Python have a ternary conditional operator?

For versions prior to 2.5, there's the trick:

[expression] and [on_true] or [on_false]

It can give wrong results when on_true has a false boolean value.1
Although it does have the benefit of evaluating expressions left to right, which is clearer in my opinion.

1. Is there an equivalent of C’s ”?:” ternary operator?

What is <=> (the 'Spaceship' Operator) in PHP 7?

According to the RFC that introduced the operator, $a <=> $b evaluates to:

  • 0 if $a == $b
  • -1 if $a < $b
  • 1 if $a > $b

which seems to be the case in practice in every scenario I've tried, although strictly the official docs only offer the slightly weaker guarantee that $a <=> $b will return

an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero when $a is respectively less than, equal to, or greater than $b

Regardless, why would you want such an operator? Again, the RFC addresses this - it's pretty much entirely to make it more convenient to write comparison functions for usort (and the similar uasort and uksort).

usort takes an array to sort as its first argument, and a user-defined comparison function as its second argument. It uses that comparison function to determine which of a pair of elements from the array is greater. The comparison function needs to return:

an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if the first argument is considered to be respectively less than, equal to, or greater than the second.

The spaceship operator makes this succinct and convenient:

$things = [
    [
        'foo' => 5.5,
        'bar' => 'abc'
    ],
    [
        'foo' => 7.7,
        'bar' => 'xyz'
    ],
    [
        'foo' => 2.2,
        'bar' => 'efg'
    ]
];

// Sort $things by 'foo' property, ascending
usort($things, function ($a, $b) {
    return $a['foo'] <=> $b['foo'];
});

// Sort $things by 'bar' property, descending
usort($things, function ($a, $b) {
    return $b['bar'] <=> $a['bar'];
});

More examples of comparison functions written using the spaceship operator can be found in the Usefulness section of the RFC.

What does the question mark and the colon (?: ternary operator) mean in objective-c?

Building on Barry Wark's excellent explanation...

What is so important about the ternary operator is that it can be used in places that an if-else cannot. ie: Inside a condition or method parameter.

[NSString stringWithFormat: @"Status: %@", (statusBool ? @"Approved" : @"Rejected")]

...which is a great use for preprocessor constants:

// in your pch file...
#define statusString (statusBool ? @"Approved" : @"Rejected")

// in your m file...
[NSString stringWithFormat: @"Status: %@", statusString]

This saves you from having to use and release local variables in if-else patterns. FTW!

What does map(&:name) mean in Ruby?

It is same as below:

def tag_names
  if @tag_names
    @tag_names
  else
    tags.map{ |t| t.name }.join(' ')
end

Can you append strings to variables in PHP?

This is because PHP uses the period character . for string concatenation, not the plus character +. Therefore to append to a string you want to use the .= operator:

for ($i=1;$i<=100;$i++)
{
    $selectBox .= '<option value="' . $i . '">' . $i . '</option>';
}
$selectBox .= '</select>';

<> And Not In VB.NET

Just use which sounds better. I'd use the first approach, though, because it seems to have fewer operations.

Difference between "or" and || in Ruby?

and/or are for control flow.

Ruby will not allow this as valid syntax:

false || raise "Error"

However this is valid:

false or raise "Error"

You can make the first work, with () but using or is the correct method.

false || (raise "Error")

What is the difference between the dot (.) operator and -> in C++?

The -> operator is used when we are working with a pointer and the dot is used otherwise. So if we have a struct class like:

struct class{ int num_students; int yr_grad; };

and we have an instance of a class* curr_class (class pointer), then to get access to number of students we would do

cout << curr_class->num_students << endl;

In case we had a simple class object , say class_2016, we would do

cout << class_2016.num_students << endl;

For the pointer to class the -> operator is equivalent to

(*obj).mem_var

Note: For a class, the way to access member functions of the class will also be the same way

What does "|=" mean? (pipe equal operator)

|= reads the same way as +=.

notification.defaults |= Notification.DEFAULT_SOUND;

is the same as

notification.defaults = notification.defaults | Notification.DEFAULT_SOUND;

where | is the bit-wise OR operator.

All operators are referenced here.

A bit-wise operator is used because, as is frequent, those constants enable an int to carry flags.

If you look at those constants, you'll see that they're in powers of two :

public static final int DEFAULT_SOUND = 1;
public static final int DEFAULT_VIBRATE = 2; // is the same than 1<<1 or 10 in binary
public static final int DEFAULT_LIGHTS = 4; // is the same than 1<<2 or 100 in binary

So you can use bit-wise OR to add flags

int myFlags = DEFAULT_SOUND | DEFAULT_VIBRATE; // same as 001 | 010, producing 011

so

myFlags |= DEFAULT_LIGHTS;

simply means we add a flag.

And symmetrically, we test a flag is set using & :

boolean hasVibrate = (DEFAULT_VIBRATE & myFlags) != 0;

Is there a "not equal" operator in Python?

You can use both != or <>.

However, note that != is preferred where <> is deprecated.

proper name for python * operator?

The Python Tutorial simply calls it 'the *-operator'. It performs unpacking of arbitrary argument lists.

What operator is <> in VBA

It is the "not equal" operator, i.e. the equivalent of != in pretty much every other language.

Does the Java &= operator apply & or &&?

It's the last one:

a = a & b;

Using OR operator in a jquery if statement

The code you wrote will always return true because state cannot be both 10 and 15 for the statement to be false. if ((state != 10) && (state != 15).... AND is what you need not OR.

Use $.inArray instead. This returns the index of the element in the array.

JSFIDDLE DEMO

var statesArray = [10, 15, 19]; // list out all

var index = $.inArray(state, statesArray);

if(index == -1) {
    console.log("Not there in array");
    return true;

} else {
    console.log("Found it");
    return false;
}

What does '&' do in a C++ declaration?

Here, & is not used as an operator. As part of function or variable declarations, & denotes a reference. The C++ FAQ Lite has a pretty nifty chapter on references.

What does question mark and dot operator ?. mean in C# 6.0?

It can be very useful when flattening a hierarchy and/or mapping objects. Instead of:

if (Model.Model2 == null
  || Model.Model2.Model3 == null
  || Model.Model2.Model3.Model4 == null
  || Model.Model2.Model3.Model4.Name == null)
{
  mapped.Name = "N/A"
}
else
{
  mapped.Name = Model.Model2.Model3.Model4.Name;
}

It can be written like (same logic as above)

mapped.Name = Model.Model2?.Model3?.Model4?.Name ?? "N/A";

DotNetFiddle.Net Working Example.

(the ?? or null-coalescing operator is different than the ? or null conditional operator).

It can also be used out side of assignment operators with Action. Instead of

Action<TValue> myAction = null;

if (myAction != null)
{
  myAction(TValue);
}

It can be simplified to:

myAction?.Invoke(TValue);

DotNetFiddle Example:

using System;

public class Program
{
  public static void Main()
  {
    Action<string> consoleWrite = null;

    consoleWrite?.Invoke("Test 1");

    consoleWrite = (s) => Console.WriteLine(s);

    consoleWrite?.Invoke("Test 2");
  }
}

Result:

Test 2

What are the basic rules and idioms for operator overloading?

Overloading new and delete

Note: This only deals with the syntax of overloading new and delete, not with the implementation of such overloaded operators. I think that the semantics of overloading new and delete deserve their own FAQ, within the topic of operator overloading I can never do it justice.

Basics

In C++, when you write a new expression like new T(arg) two things happen when this expression is evaluated: First operator new is invoked to obtain raw memory, and then the appropriate constructor of T is invoked to turn this raw memory into a valid object. Likewise, when you delete an object, first its destructor is called, and then the memory is returned to operator delete.
C++ allows you to tune both of these operations: memory management and the construction/destruction of the object at the allocated memory. The latter is done by writing constructors and destructors for a class. Fine-tuning memory management is done by writing your own operator new and operator delete.

The first of the basic rules of operator overloading – don’t do it – applies especially to overloading new and delete. Almost the only reasons to overload these operators are performance problems and memory constraints, and in many cases, other actions, like changes to the algorithms used, will provide a much higher cost/gain ratio than attempting to tweak memory management.

The C++ standard library comes with a set of predefined new and delete operators. The most important ones are these:

void* operator new(std::size_t) throw(std::bad_alloc); 
void  operator delete(void*) throw(); 
void* operator new[](std::size_t) throw(std::bad_alloc); 
void  operator delete[](void*) throw(); 

The first two allocate/deallocate memory for an object, the latter two for an array of objects. If you provide your own versions of these, they will not overload, but replace the ones from the standard library.
If you overload operator new, you should always also overload the matching operator delete, even if you never intend to call it. The reason is that, if a constructor throws during the evaluation of a new expression, the run-time system will return the memory to the operator delete matching the operator new that was called to allocate the memory to create the object in. If you do not provide a matching operator delete, the default one is called, which is almost always wrong.
If you overload new and delete, you should consider overloading the array variants, too.

Placement new

C++ allows new and delete operators to take additional arguments.
So-called placement new allows you to create an object at a certain address which is passed to:

class X { /* ... */ };
char buffer[ sizeof(X) ];
void f()
{ 
  X* p = new(buffer) X(/*...*/);
  // ... 
  p->~X(); // call destructor 
} 

The standard library comes with the appropriate overloads of the new and delete operators for this:

void* operator new(std::size_t,void* p) throw(std::bad_alloc); 
void  operator delete(void* p,void*) throw(); 
void* operator new[](std::size_t,void* p) throw(std::bad_alloc); 
void  operator delete[](void* p,void*) throw(); 

Note that, in the example code for placement new given above, operator delete is never called, unless the constructor of X throws an exception.

You can also overload new and delete with other arguments. As with the additional argument for placement new, these arguments are also listed within parentheses after the keyword new. Merely for historical reasons, such variants are often also called placement new, even if their arguments are not for placing an object at a specific address.

Class-specific new and delete

Most commonly you will want to fine-tune memory management because measurement has shown that instances of a specific class, or of a group of related classes, are created and destroyed often and that the default memory management of the run-time system, tuned for general performance, deals inefficiently in this specific case. To improve this, you can overload new and delete for a specific class:

class my_class { 
  public: 
    // ... 
    void* operator new();
    void  operator delete(void*,std::size_t);
    void* operator new[](size_t);
    void  operator delete[](void*,std::size_t);
    // ... 
}; 

Overloaded thus, new and delete behave like static member functions. For objects of my_class, the std::size_t argument will always be sizeof(my_class). However, these operators are also called for dynamically allocated objects of derived classes, in which case it might be greater than that.

Global new and delete

To overload the global new and delete, simply replace the pre-defined operators of the standard library with our own. However, this rarely ever needs to be done.

Difference between "and" and && in Ruby?

The practical difference is binding strength, which can lead to peculiar behavior if you're not prepared for it:

foo = :foo
bar = nil

a = foo and bar
# => nil
a
# => :foo

a = foo && bar
# => nil
a
# => nil

a = (foo and bar)
# => nil
a
# => nil

(a = foo) && bar
# => nil
a
# => :foo

The same thing works for || and or.

Python != operation vs "is not"

>>> () is ()
True
>>> 1 is 1
True
>>> (1,) == (1,)
True
>>> (1,) is (1,)
False
>>> a = (1,)
>>> b = a
>>> a is b
True

Some objects are singletons, and thus is with them is equivalent to ==. Most are not.

Is there a "null coalescing" operator in JavaScript?

After reading your clarification, @Ates Goral's answer provides how to perform the same operation you're doing in C# in JavaScript.

@Gumbo's answer provides the best way to check for null; however, it's important to note the difference in == versus === in JavaScript especially when it comes to issues of checking for undefined and/or null.

There's a really good article about the difference in two terms here. Basically, understand that if you use == instead of ===, JavaScript will try to coalesce the values you're comparing and return what the result of the comparison after this coalescence.

What does the colon (:) operator do?

It's used in for loops to iterate over a list of objects.

for (Object o: list)
{
    // o is an element of list here
}

Think of it as a for <item> in <list> in Python.

Logical Operators, || or OR?

Some languages use short-circuit, and others use full Boolean evaluation (if you know, this is similar to the directive $B in Pascal).

Explanations:

function A(){
    ...Do something..
    return true;
}

function B(){
    ...Do something..
    return true;
}

if ( A() OR B() ) { .....

In this example the function B() will never be executed. Since the function A() returns TRUE, the result of the OR statement is known from the first part without it being necessary to evaluate the second part of the expression.

However with ( A() || B() ), the second part is always evaluated regardless of the value of the first.

For optimized programming, you should always use OR which is faster (except for the case when the first part returns false and second part actually needs to be evaluated).

Difference between | and || or & and && for comparison

The & and | are usually bitwise operations.

Where as && and || are usually logical operations.

For comparison purposes, it's perfectly fine provided that everything returns either a 1 or a 0. Otherwise, it can return false positives. You should avoid this though to prevent hard to read bugs.

Difference between & and && in Java?

&& == logical AND

& = bitwise AND

Behaviour of increment and decrement operators in Python

In python 3.8+ you can do :

(a:=a+1) #same as ++a (increment, then return new value)
(a:=a+1)-1 #same as a++ (return the incremented value -1) (useless)

You can do a lot of thinks with this.

>>> a = 0
>>> while (a:=a+1) < 5:
    print(a)

    
1
2
3
4

Or if you want write somthing with more sophisticated syntaxe (the goal is not optimization):

>>> del a
>>> while (a := (a if 'a' in locals() else 0) + 1) < 5:
    print(a)

    
1
2
3
4

It will return 0 even if 'a' doesn't exist without errors, and then will set it to 1

What does '?' do in C++?

It is called the conditional operator.

You can replace it with:

int qempty(){ 
    if (f == r) return 1;
    else return 0;
}

Is there a difference between x++ and ++x in java?

++x is called preincrement while x++ is called postincrement.

int x = 5, y = 5;

System.out.println(++x); // outputs 6
System.out.println(x); // outputs 6

System.out.println(y++); // outputs 5
System.out.println(y); // outputs 6

Which equals operator (== vs ===) should be used in JavaScript comparisons?

always use '===' and you will avoid thousand of mistakes. nowadays using triple equality is more preferable by different style guides, because it compares taking into account type of operands.

jQuery select by attribute using AND and OR operators

AND operation

a=$('[myc="blue"][myid="1"][myid="3"]');

OR operation, use commas

a=$('[myc="blue"],[myid="1"],[myid="3"]');

As @Vega commented:

a=$('[myc="blue"][myid="1"],[myc="blue"][myid="3"]');

What is a Question Mark "?" and Colon ":" Operator Used for?

it is a ternary operator and in simple english it states "if row%2 is equal to 1 then return < else return /r"

'AND' vs '&&' as operator

If you use AND and OR, you'll eventually get tripped up by something like this:

$this_one = true;
$that = false;

$truthiness = $this_one and $that;

Want to guess what $truthiness equals?

If you said false... bzzzt, sorry, wrong!

$truthiness above has the value true. Why? = has a higher precedence than and. The addition of parentheses to show the implicit order makes this clearer:

($truthiness = $this_one) and $that

If you used && instead of and in the first code example, it would work as expected and be false.

As discussed in the comments below, this also works to get the correct value, as parentheses have higher precedence than =:

$truthiness = ($this_one and $that)

Comparing two vectors in an if statement

Are they identical?

> identical(A,C)
[1] FALSE

Which elements disagree:

> which(A != C)
[1] 2 4

How do I overload the square-bracket operator in C#?

Operators                           Overloadability

+, -, *, /, %, &, |, <<, >>         All C# binary operators can be overloaded.

+, -, !,  ~, ++, --, true, false    All C# unary operators can be overloaded.

==, !=, <, >, <= , >=               All relational operators can be overloaded, 
                                    but only as pairs.

&&, ||                  They can't be overloaded

() (Conversion operator)        They can't be overloaded

+=, -=, *=, /=, %=                  These compound assignment operators can be 
                                    overloaded. But in C#, these operators are
                                    automatically overloaded when the respective
                                    binary operator is overloaded.

=, . , ?:, ->, new, is, as, sizeof  These operators can't be overloaded

    [ ]                             Can be overloaded but not always!

Source of the information

For bracket:

public Object this[int index]
{

}

BUT

The array indexing operator cannot be overloaded; however, types can define indexers, properties that take one or more parameters. Indexer parameters are enclosed in square brackets, just like array indices, but indexer parameters can be declared to be of any type (unlike array indices, which must be integral).

From MSDN

What are bitwise shift (bit-shift) operators and how do they work?

Bitwise operations, including bit shift, are fundamental to low-level hardware or embedded programming. If you read a specification for a device or even some binary file formats, you will see bytes, words, and dwords, broken up into non-byte aligned bitfields, which contain various values of interest. Accessing these bit-fields for reading/writing is the most common usage.

A simple real example in graphics programming is that a 16-bit pixel is represented as follows:

  bit | 15| 14| 13| 12| 11| 10| 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1  | 0 |
      |       Blue        |         Green         |       Red          |

To get at the green value you would do this:

 #define GREEN_MASK  0x7E0
 #define GREEN_OFFSET  5

 // Read green
 uint16_t green = (pixel & GREEN_MASK) >> GREEN_OFFSET;

Explanation

In order to obtain the value of green ONLY, which starts at offset 5 and ends at 10 (i.e. 6-bits long), you need to use a (bit) mask, which when applied against the entire 16-bit pixel, will yield only the bits we are interested in.

#define GREEN_MASK  0x7E0

The appropriate mask is 0x7E0 which in binary is 0000011111100000 (which is 2016 in decimal).

uint16_t green = (pixel & GREEN_MASK) ...;

To apply a mask, you use the AND operator (&).

uint16_t green = (pixel & GREEN_MASK) >> GREEN_OFFSET;

After applying the mask, you'll end up with a 16-bit number which is really just a 11-bit number since its MSB is in the 11th bit. Green is actually only 6-bits long, so we need to scale it down using a right shift (11 - 6 = 5), hence the use of 5 as offset (#define GREEN_OFFSET 5).

Also common is using bit shifts for fast multiplication and division by powers of 2:

 i <<= x;  // i *= 2^x;
 i >>= y;  // i /= 2^y;

How to check if div element is empty

You can use .is().

if( $('#leftmenu').is(':empty') ) {

Or you could just test the length property to see if one was found:

if( $('#leftmenu:empty').length ) {

You can use $.trim() to remove whitespace (if that's what you want) and check for the length of the content.

if( !$.trim( $('#leftmenu').html() ).length ) {

What is the difference between & and && in Java?

& is a bitwise operator plus used for checking both conditions because sometimes we need to evaluate both condition. But && logical operator go to 2nd condition when first condition give true.

How to use greater than operator with date?

Try this.

SELECT * FROM la_schedule WHERE `start_date` > '2012-11-18';

Why don't Java's +=, -=, *=, /= compound assignment operators require casting?

In Java type conversions are performed automatically when the type of the expression on the right hand side of an assignment operation can be safely promoted to the type of the variable on the left hand side of the assignment. Thus we can safely assign:

 byte -> short -> int -> long -> float -> double. 

The same will not work the other way round. For example we cannot automatically convert a long to an int because the first requires more storage than the second and consequently information may be lost. To force such a conversion we must carry out an explicit conversion.
Type - Conversion

Using the && operator in an if statement

So to make your expression work, changing && for -a will do the trick.

It is correct like this:

 if [ -f $VAR1 ] && [ -f $VAR2 ] && [ -f $VAR3 ]
 then  ....

or like

 if [[ -f $VAR1 && -f $VAR2 && -f $VAR3 ]]
 then  ....

or even

 if [ -f $VAR1 -a -f $VAR2 -a -f $VAR3 ]
 then  ....

You can find further details in this question bash : Multiple Unary operators in if statement and some references given there like What is the difference between test, [ and [[ ?.

What's the difference between “mod” and “remainder”?

In mathematics the result of the modulo operation is the remainder of the Euclidean division. However, other conventions are possible. Computers and calculators have various ways of storing and representing numbers; thus their definition of the modulo operation depends on the programming language and/or the underlying hardware.

 7 modulo  3 -->  1  
 7 modulo -3 --> -2 
-7 modulo  3 -->  2  
-7 modulo -3 --> -1 

Batch not-equal (inequality) operator

Try

if NOT "asdf" == "fdas" echo asdf

The ternary (conditional) operator in C

The ternary operator is a syntactic and readability convenience, not a performance shortcut. People are split on the merits of it for conditionals of varying complexity, but for short conditions, it can be useful to have a one-line expression.

Moreover, since it's an expression, as Charlie Martin wrote, that means it can appear on the right-hand side of a statement in C. This is valuable for being concise.

Question mark and colon in JavaScript

This is probably a bit clearer when written with brackets as follows:

hsb.s = (max != 0) ? (255 * delta / max) : 0;

What it does is evaluate the part in the first brackets. If the result is true then the part after the ? and before the : is returned. If it is false, then what follows the : is returned.

What do these operators mean (** , ^ , %, //)?

You are correct that ** is the power function.

^ is bitwise XOR.

% is indeed the modulus operation, but note that for positive numbers, x % m = x whenever m > x. This follows from the definition of modulus. (Additionally, Python specifies x % m to have the sign of m.)

// is a division operation that returns an integer by discarding the remainder. This is the standard form of division using the / in most programming languages. However, Python 3 changed the behavior of / to perform floating-point division even if the arguments are integers. The // operator was introduced in Python 2.6 and Python 3 to provide an integer-division operator that would behave consistently between Python 2 and Python 3. This means:

| context                                | `/` behavior   | `//` behavior |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| floating-point arguments, Python 2 & 3 | float division | int divison   |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| integer arguments, python 2            | int division   | int division  |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| integer arguments, python 3            | float division | int division  |

For more details, see this question: Division in Python 2.7. and 3.3

Prolog "or" operator, query

you can 'invoke' alternative bindings on Y this way:

...registered(X, Y), (Y=ct101; Y=ct102; Y=ct103).

Note the parenthesis are required to keep the correct execution control flow. The ;/2 it's the general or operator. For your restricted use you could as well choice the more idiomatic

...registered(X, Y), member(Y, [ct101,ct102,ct103]).

that on backtracking binds Y to each member of the list.

edit I understood with a delay your last requirement. If you want that Y match all 3 values the or is inappropriate, use instead

...registered(X, ct101), registered(X, ct102), registered(X, ct103).

or the more compact

...findall(Y, registered(X, Y), L), sort(L, [ct101,ct102,ct103]).

findall/3 build the list in the very same order that registered/2 succeeds. Then I use sort to ensure the matching.

...setof(Y, registered(X, Y), [ct101,ct102,ct103]).

setof/3 also sorts the result list

Concatenate two string literals

You should always pay attention to types.

Although they all seem like strings, "Hello" and ",world" are literals.

And in your example, exclam is a std::string object.

C++ has an operator overload that takes a std::string object and adds another string to it. When you concatenate a std::string object with a literal it will make the appropriate casting for the literal.

But if you try to concatenate two literals, the compiler won't be able to find an operator that takes two literals.

What exactly does += do in python?

It adds the right operand to the left. x += 2 means x = x + 2

It can also add elements to a list -- see this SO thread.

Modulo operator in Python

you should use fmod(a,b)

While abs(x%y) < abs(y) is true mathematically, for floats it may not be true numerically due to roundoff.

For example, and assuming a platform on which a Python float is an IEEE 754 double-precision number, in order that -1e-100 % 1e100 have the same sign as 1e100, the computed result is -1e-100 + 1e100, which is numerically exactly equal to 1e100.

Function fmod() in the math module returns a result whose sign matches the sign of the first argument instead, and so returns -1e-100 in this case. Which approach is more appropriate depends on the application.

where x = a%b is used for integer modulo

What is the result of % in Python?

The modulus is a mathematical operation, sometimes described as "clock arithmetic." I find that describing it as simply a remainder is misleading and confusing because it masks the real reason it is used so much in computer science. It really is used to wrap around cycles.

Think of a clock: Suppose you look at a clock in "military" time, where the range of times goes from 0:00 - 23.59. Now if you wanted something to happen every day at midnight, you would want the current time mod 24 to be zero:

if (hour % 24 == 0):

You can think of all hours in history wrapping around a circle of 24 hours over and over and the current hour of the day is that infinitely long number mod 24. It is a much more profound concept than just a remainder, it is a mathematical way to deal with cycles and it is very important in computer science. It is also used to wrap around arrays, allowing you to increase the index and use the modulus to wrap back to the beginning after you reach the end of the array.

How do I get a decimal value when using the division operator in Python?

Make one or both of the terms a floating point number, like so:

4.0/100.0

Alternatively, turn on the feature that will be default in Python 3.0, 'true division', that does what you want. At the top of your module or script, do:

from __future__ import division

What are XAND and XOR

OMG, a XAND gate does exist. My dad is taking a technological class for a job and there IS an XAND gate. People are saying that both OR and AND are complete opposites, so they expand that to the exclusive-gate logic:

XOR: One or another, but not both.

Xand: One and another, but not both.

This is incorrect. If you're going to change from XOR to XAND, you have to flip every instance of 'AND' and 'OR':

XOR: One or another, but not both.

XAND: One and another, but not one.

So, XAND is true when and only when both inputs are equal, either if the inputs are 0/0 or 1/1

The tilde operator in Python

I was solving this leetcode problem and I came across this beautiful solution by a user named Zitao Wang.

The problem goes like this for each element in the given array find the product of all the remaining numbers without making use of divison and in O(n) time

The standard solution is:

Pass 1: For all elements compute product of all the elements to the left of it
Pass 2: For all elements compute product of all the elements to the right of it
        and then multiplying them for the final answer 

His solution uses only one for loop by making use of. He computes the left product and right product on the fly using ~

def productExceptSelf(self, nums):
    res = [1]*len(nums)
    lprod = 1
    rprod = 1
    for i in range(len(nums)):
        res[i] *= lprod
        lprod *= nums[i]
        res[~i] *= rprod
        rprod *= nums[~i]
    return res

What's the difference between equal?, eql?, ===, and ==?

Equality operators: == and !=

The == operator, also known as equality or double equal, will return true if both objects are equal and false if they are not.

"koan" == "koan" # Output: => true

The != operator, also known as inequality, is the opposite of ==. It will return true if both objects are not equal and false if they are equal.

"koan" != "discursive thought" # Output: => true

Note that two arrays with the same elements in a different order are not equal, uppercase and lowercase versions of the same letter are not equal and so on.

When comparing numbers of different types (e.g., integer and float), if their numeric value is the same, == will return true.

2 == 2.0 # Output: => true

equal?

Unlike the == operator which tests if both operands are equal, the equal method checks if the two operands refer to the same object. This is the strictest form of equality in Ruby.

Example: a = "zen" b = "zen"

a.object_id  # Output: => 20139460
b.object_id  # Output :=> 19972120

a.equal? b  # Output: => false

In the example above, we have two strings with the same value. However, they are two distinct objects, with different object IDs. Hence, the equal? method will return false.

Let's try again, only this time b will be a reference to a. Notice that the object ID is the same for both variables, as they point to the same object.

a = "zen"
b = a

a.object_id  # Output: => 18637360
b.object_id  # Output: => 18637360

a.equal? b  # Output: => true

eql?

In the Hash class, the eql? method it is used to test keys for equality. Some background is required to explain this. In the general context of computing, a hash function takes a string (or a file) of any size and generates a string or integer of fixed size called hashcode, commonly referred to as only hash. Some commonly used hashcode types are MD5, SHA-1, and CRC. They are used in encryption algorithms, database indexing, file integrity checking, etc. Some programming languages, such as Ruby, provide a collection type called hash table. Hash tables are dictionary-like collections which store data in pairs, consisting of unique keys and their corresponding values. Under the hood, those keys are stored as hashcodes. Hash tables are commonly referred to as just hashes. Notice how the word hashcan refer to a hashcode or to a hash table. In the context of Ruby programming, the word hash almost always refers to the dictionary-like collection.

Ruby provides a built-in method called hash for generating hashcodes. In the example below, it takes a string and returns a hashcode. Notice how strings with the same value always have the same hashcode, even though they are distinct objects (with different object IDs).

"meditation".hash  # Output: => 1396080688894079547
"meditation".hash  # Output: => 1396080688894079547
"meditation".hash  # Output: => 1396080688894079547

The hash method is implemented in the Kernel module, included in the Object class, which is the default root of all Ruby objects. Some classes such as Symbol and Integer use the default implementation, others like String and Hash provide their own implementations.

Symbol.instance_method(:hash).owner  # Output: => Kernel
Integer.instance_method(:hash).owner # Output: => Kernel

String.instance_method(:hash).owner  # Output: => String
Hash.instance_method(:hash).owner  # Output: => Hash

In Ruby, when we store something in a hash (collection), the object provided as a key (e.g., string or symbol) is converted into and stored as a hashcode. Later, when retrieving an element from the hash (collection), we provide an object as a key, which is converted into a hashcode and compared to the existing keys. If there is a match, the value of the corresponding item is returned. The comparison is made using the eql? method under the hood.

"zen".eql? "zen"    # Output: => true
# is the same as
"zen".hash == "zen".hash # Output: => true

In most cases, the eql? method behaves similarly to the == method. However, there are a few exceptions. For instance, eql? does not perform implicit type conversion when comparing an integer to a float.

2 == 2.0    # Output: => true
2.eql? 2.0    # Output: => false
2.hash == 2.0.hash  # Output: => false

Case equality operator: ===

Many of Ruby's built-in classes, such as String, Range, and Regexp, provide their own implementations of the === operator, also known as case-equality, triple equals or threequals. Because it's implemented differently in each class, it will behave differently depending on the type of object it was called on. Generally, it returns true if the object on the right "belongs to" or "is a member of" the object on the left. For instance, it can be used to test if an object is an instance of a class (or one of its subclasses).

String === "zen"  # Output: => true
Range === (1..2)   # Output: => true
Array === [1,2,3]   # Output: => true
Integer === 2   # Output: => true

The same result can be achieved with other methods which are probably best suited for the job. It's usually better to write code that is easy to read by being as explicit as possible, without sacrificing efficiency and conciseness.

2.is_a? Integer   # Output: => true
2.kind_of? Integer  # Output: => true
2.instance_of? Integer # Output: => false

Notice the last example returned false because integers such as 2 are instances of the Fixnum class, which is a subclass of the Integer class. The ===, is_a? and instance_of? methods return true if the object is an instance of the given class or any subclasses. The instance_of method is stricter and only returns true if the object is an instance of that exact class, not a subclass.

The is_a? and kind_of? methods are implemented in the Kernel module, which is mixed in by the Object class. Both are aliases to the same method. Let's verify:

Kernel.instance_method(:kind_of?) == Kernel.instance_method(:is_a?) # Output: => true

Range Implementation of ===

When the === operator is called on a range object, it returns true if the value on the right falls within the range on the left.

(1..4) === 3  # Output: => true
(1..4) === 2.345 # Output: => true
(1..4) === 6  # Output: => false

("a".."d") === "c" # Output: => true
("a".."d") === "e" # Output: => false

Remember that the === operator invokes the === method of the left-hand object. So (1..4) === 3 is equivalent to (1..4).=== 3. In other words, the class of the left-hand operand will define which implementation of the === method will be called, so the operand positions are not interchangeable.

Regexp Implementation of ===

Returns true if the string on the right matches the regular expression on the left. /zen/ === "practice zazen today" # Output: => true # is the same as "practice zazen today"=~ /zen/

Implicit usage of the === operator on case/when statements

This operator is also used under the hood on case/when statements. That is its most common use.

minutes = 15

case minutes
  when 10..20
    puts "match"
  else
    puts "no match"
end

# Output: match

In the example above, if Ruby had implicitly used the double equal operator (==), the range 10..20 would not be considered equal to an integer such as 15. They match because the triple equal operator (===) is implicitly used in all case/when statements. The code in the example above is equivalent to:

if (10..20) === minutes
  puts "match"
else
  puts "no match"
end

Pattern matching operators: =~ and !~

The =~ (equal-tilde) and !~ (bang-tilde) operators are used to match strings and symbols against regex patterns.

The implementation of the =~ method in the String and Symbol classes expects a regular expression (an instance of the Regexp class) as an argument.

"practice zazen" =~ /zen/   # Output: => 11
"practice zazen" =~ /discursive thought/ # Output: => nil

:zazen =~ /zen/    # Output: => 2
:zazen =~ /discursive thought/  # Output: => nil

The implementation in the Regexp class expects a string or a symbol as an argument.

/zen/ =~ "practice zazen"  # Output: => 11
/zen/ =~ "discursive thought" # Output: => nil

In all implementations, when the string or symbol matches the Regexp pattern, it returns an integer which is the position (index) of the match. If there is no match, it returns nil. Remember that, in Ruby, any integer value is "truthy" and nil is "falsy", so the =~ operator can be used in if statements and ternary operators.

puts "yes" if "zazen" =~ /zen/ # Output: => yes
"zazen" =~ /zen/?"yes":"no" # Output: => yes

Pattern-matching operators are also useful for writing shorter if statements. Example:

if meditation_type == "zazen" || meditation_type == "shikantaza" || meditation_type == "kinhin"
  true
end
Can be rewritten as:
if meditation_type =~ /^(zazen|shikantaza|kinhin)$/
  true
end

The !~ operator is the opposite of =~, it returns true when there is no match and false if there is a match.

More info is available at this blog post.

What is Ruby's double-colon `::`?

Ruby on rails uses :: for namespace resolution.

class User < ActiveRecord::Base

  VIDEOS_COUNT = 10
  Languages = { "English" => "en", "Spanish" => "es", "Mandarin Chinese" => "cn"}

end

To use it :

User::VIDEOS_COUNT
User::Languages
User::Languages.values_at("Spanish") => "en"

Also, other usage is : When using nested routes

OmniauthCallbacksController is defined under users.

And routed as:

devise_for :users, controllers: {omniauth_callbacks: "users/omniauth_callbacks"}


class Users::OmniauthCallbacksController < Devise::OmniauthCallbacksController

end

What is the meaning of "operator bool() const"

It's an implicit conversion to bool. I.e. wherever implicit conversions are allowed, your class can be converted to bool by calling that method.

What is the difference between i = i + 1 and i += 1 in a 'for' loop?

A key issue here is that this loop iterates over the rows (1st dimension) of B:

In [258]: B
Out[258]: 
array([[ 0,  1,  2],
       [ 3,  4,  5],
       [ 6,  7,  8],
       [ 9, 10, 11]])
In [259]: for b in B:
     ...:     print(b,'=>',end='')
     ...:     b += 1
     ...:     print(b)
     ...:     
[0 1 2] =>[1 2 3]
[3 4 5] =>[4 5 6]
[6 7 8] =>[7 8 9]
[ 9 10 11] =>[10 11 12]

Thus the += is acting on a mutable object, an array.

This is implied in the other answers, but easily missed if your focus is on the a = a+1 reassignment.

I could also make an in-place change to b with [:] indexing, or even something fancier, b[1:]=0:

In [260]: for b in B:
     ...:     print(b,'=>',end='')
     ...:     b[:] = b * 2

[1 2 3] =>[2 4 6]
[4 5 6] =>[ 8 10 12]
[7 8 9] =>[14 16 18]
[10 11 12] =>[20 22 24]

Of course with a 2d array like B we usually don't need to iterate on the rows. Many operations that work on a single of B also work on the whole thing. B += 1, B[1:] = 0, etc.

What is the Ruby <=> (spaceship) operator?

Perl was likely the first language to use it. Groovy is another language that supports it. Basically instead of returning 1 (true) or 0 (false) depending on whether the arguments are equal or unequal, the spaceship operator will return 1, 0, or -1 depending on the value of the left argument relative to the right argument.

a <=> b :=
  if a < b then return -1
  if a = b then return  0
  if a > b then return  1
  if a and b are not comparable then return nil

It's useful for sorting an array.

Creating a "logical exclusive or" operator in Java

Perhaps you misunderstood the difference between & and &&, | and || The purpose of the shortcut operators && and || is that the value of the first operand can determine the result and so the second operand doesn't need to be evaluated.

This is especially useful if the second operand would results in an error. e.g.

if (set == null || set.isEmpty())
// or
if (list != null && list.size() > 0)

However with XOR, you always have to evaluate the second operand to get the result so the only meaningful operation is ^.

How to call on a function found on another file?

Your sprite is created mid way through the playerSprite function... it also goes out of scope and ceases to exist at the end of that same function. The sprite must be created where you can pass it to playerSprite to initialize it and also where you can pass it to your draw function.

Perhaps declare it above your first while?

Is there a concurrent List in Java's JDK?

If you never plan to delete elements from the list (since this requires changing the index of all elements after the deleted element), then you can use ConcurrentSkipListMap<Integer, T> in place of ArrayList<T>, e.g.

NavigableMap<Integer, T> map = new ConcurrentSkipListMap<>();

This will allow you to add items to the end of the "list" as follows, as long as there is only one writer thread (otherwise there is a race condition between map.size() and map.put()):

// Add item to end of the "list":
map.put(map.size(), item);

You can also obviously modify the value of any item in the "list" (i.e. the map) by simply calling map.put(index, item).

The average cost for putting items into the map or retrieving them by index is O(log(n)), and ConcurrentSkipListMap is lock-free, which makes it significantly better than say Vector (the old synchronized version of ArrayList).

You can iterate back and forth through the "list" by using the methods of the NavigableMap interface.

You could wrap all the above into a class that implements the List interface, as long as you understand the race condition caveats (or you could synchronize just the writer methods) -- and you would need to throw an unsupported operation exception for the remove methods. There's quite a bit of boilerplate needed to implement all the required methods, but here's a quick attempt at an implementation.

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ListIterator;
import java.util.NavigableMap;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentSkipListMap;

public class ConcurrentAddOnlyList<V> implements List<V> {
    private NavigableMap<Integer, V> map = new ConcurrentSkipListMap<>();

    @Override
    public int size() {
        return map.size();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isEmpty() {
        return map.isEmpty();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean contains(Object o) {
        return map.values().contains(o);
    }

    @Override
    public Iterator<V> iterator() {
        return map.values().iterator();
    }

    @Override
    public Object[] toArray() {
        return map.values().toArray();
    }

    @Override
    public <T> T[] toArray(T[] a) {
        return map.values().toArray(a);
    }

    @Override
    public V get(int index) {
        return map.get(index);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean containsAll(Collection<?> c) {
        return map.values().containsAll(c);
    }

    @Override
    public int indexOf(Object o) {
        for (Entry<Integer, V> ent : map.entrySet()) {
            if (Objects.equals(ent.getValue(), o)) {
                return ent.getKey();
            }
        }
        return -1;
    }

    @Override
    public int lastIndexOf(Object o) {
        for (Entry<Integer, V> ent : map.descendingMap().entrySet()) {
            if (Objects.equals(ent.getValue(), o)) {
                return ent.getKey();
            }
        }
        return -1;
    }

    @Override
    public ListIterator<V> listIterator(int index) {
        return new ListIterator<V>() {
            private int currIdx = 0;

            @Override
            public boolean hasNext() {
                return currIdx < map.size();
            }

            @Override
            public V next() {
                if (currIdx >= map.size()) {
                    throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                            "next() called at end of list");
                }
                return map.get(currIdx++);
            }

            @Override
            public boolean hasPrevious() {
                return currIdx > 0;
            }

            @Override
            public V previous() {
                if (currIdx <= 0) {
                    throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                            "previous() called at beginning of list");
                }
                return map.get(--currIdx);
            }

            @Override
            public int nextIndex() {
                return currIdx + 1;
            }

            @Override
            public int previousIndex() {
                return currIdx - 1;
            }

            @Override
            public void remove() {
                throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
            }

            @Override
            public void set(V e) {
                // Might change size of map if currIdx == map.size(),
                // so need to synchronize 
                synchronized (map) {
                    map.put(currIdx, e);
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void add(V e) {
                synchronized (map) {
                    // Insertion is not supported except at end of list
                    if (currIdx < map.size()) {
                        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
                    }
                    map.put(currIdx++, e);
                }
            }
        };
    }

    @Override
    public ListIterator<V> listIterator() {
        return listIterator(0);
    }

    @Override
    public List<V> subList(int fromIndex, int toIndex) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean add(V e) {
        synchronized (map) {
            map.put(map.size(), e);
            return true;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean addAll(Collection<? extends V> c) {
        synchronized (map) {
            for (V val : c) {
                add(val);
            }
            return true;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public V set(int index, V element) {
        synchronized (map) {
            if (index < 0 || index > map.size()) {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Index out of range");
            }
            return map.put(index, element);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void clear() {
        synchronized (map) {
            map.clear();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized void add(int index, V element) {
        synchronized (map) {
            if (index < map.size()) {
                // Insertion is not supported except at end of list
                throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
            } else if (index < 0 || index > map.size()) {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Index out of range");
            }
            // index == map.size()
            add(element);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public synchronized boolean addAll(
            int index, Collection<? extends V> c) {
        synchronized (map) {
            if (index < map.size()) {
                // Insertion is not supported except at end of list
                throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
            } else if (index < 0 || index > map.size()) {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Index out of range");
            }
            // index == map.size()
            for (V val : c) {
                add(val);
            }
            return true;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean remove(Object o) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }

    @Override
    public V remove(int index) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean removeAll(Collection<?> c) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean retainAll(Collection<?> c) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }
}

Don't forget that even with the writer thread synchronization as shown above, you need to be careful not to run into race conditions that might cause you to drop items, if for example you try to iterate through a list in a reader thread while a writer thread is adding to the end of the list.

You can even use ConcurrentSkipListMap as a double-ended list, as long as you don't need the key of each item to represent the actual position within the list (i.e. adding to the beginning of the list will assign items negative keys). (The same race condition caveat applies here, i.e. there should be only one writer thread.)

// Add item after last item in the "list":
map.put(map.isEmpty() ? 0 : map.lastKey() + 1, item);

// Add item before first item in the "list":
map.put(map.isEmpty() ? 0 : map.firstKey() - 1, item);

Centering controls within a form in .NET (Winforms)?

Since you don't state if the form can resize or not there is an easy way if you don't care about resizing (if you do care, go with Mitch Wheats solution):

Select the control -> Format (menu option) -> Center in Window -> Horizontally or Vertically

Ruby value of a hash key?

This question seems to be ambiguous.

I'll try with my interpretation of the request.

def do_something(data)
   puts "Found! #{data}"
end

a = { 'x' => 'test', 'y' => 'foo', 'z' => 'bar' }
a.each { |key,value| do_something(value) if key == 'x' }

This will loop over all the key,value pairs and do something only if the key is 'x'.

Is there an easy way to strike through text in an app widget?

If you have a single word we can use drawable. Following is the example:

<item android:state_pressed="false"><shape android:shape="line">
        <stroke android:width="2dp" android:color="#ffffff" />
    </shape>
</item>

if you have multiple lines you can use the following code:

TextView someTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.some_text_view);
someTextView.setText(someString);
someTextView.setPaintFlags(someTextView.getPaintFlags() | Paint.STRIKE_THRU_TEXT_FLAG)

How to make a <svg> element expand or contract to its parent container?

Suppose I have an SVG which looks like this: pic1

And I want to put it in a div and make it fill the div responsively. My way of doing it is as follows:

First I open the SVG file in an application like inkscape. In File->Document Properties I set the width of the document to 800px and and the height to 600px (you can choose other sizes). Then I fit the SVG into this document.

pic2

Then I save this file as a new SVG file and get the path data from this file. Now in HTML the code that does the magic is as follows:

<div id="containerId">    
    <svg
    id="svgId" 
    xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
    version="1.1"
    x="0"
    y="0"
    width="100%"
    height="100%"
    viewBox="0 0 800 600"
    preserveAspectRatio="none">
       <path d="m0 0v600h800v-600h-75.07031l-431 597.9707-292.445315-223.99609 269.548825-373.97461h-271.0332z" fill="#f00"/>
    </svg>
</div>

Note that width and height of SVG are both set to 100%, since we want it to fill the container vertically and horizontally ,but width and height of the viewBox are the same as the width and height of the document in inkscape which is 800px X 600px. The next thing you need to do is set the preserveAspectRatio to "none". If you need to have more information on this attribute here's a good link. And that's all there is to it.

One more thing is that this code works on almost all the major browsers even the old ones but on some versions of android and ios you need to use some javascrip/jQuery code to keep it consistent. I use the following in document ready and resize functions:

$('#svgId').css({
    'width': $('#containerId').width() + 'px',
    'height': $('#containerId').height() + 'px'
});

Hope it helps!

Passing base64 encoded strings in URL

I don't think that this is safe because e.g. the "=" character is used in raw base 64 and is also used in differentiating the parameters from the values in an HTTP GET.

How to Disable GUI Button in Java

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Dimension;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder;
import javax.swing.BoxLayout;
import javax.swing.JSeparator;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;


public class IPGUI extends JFrame implements ActionListener 
{
    private static JPanel contentPane;

    private JButton btnConvertDocuments;
    private JButton btnExtractImages;
    private JButton btnParseRIDValues;
    private JButton btnParseImageInfo;

    //Create the frame
    public IPGUI() 
    {
        //Sets frame properties
        setTitle("IP Extractor");
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setBounds(100, 100, 250, 300);
        contentPane = new JPanel();
        contentPane.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(5, 5, 5, 5));
        contentPane.setLayout(new BorderLayout(0, 0));
        setContentPane(contentPane);

        //Creates new JPanel with boxlayout
        JPanel panel = new JPanel();
        contentPane.add(panel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));

        //////////////////New Button//////////////////

        JButton btnConvertDocuments = new JButton("1. Convert Documents");
        btnConvertDocuments.setAlignmentX(Component.CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
        btnConvertDocuments.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(160, 0));
        btnConvertDocuments.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(0, 50));

        panel.add(btnConvertDocuments);

        btnConvertDocuments.setActionCommand("w");
        btnConvertDocuments.addActionListener((ActionListener) this);

        JSeparator separator_3 = new JSeparator();
        panel.add(separator_3);

        //////////////////New Button//////////////////

        btnExtractImages = new JButton("2. Extract Images");
        btnExtractImages.setAlignmentX(Component.CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
        btnExtractImages.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(160, 0));
        btnExtractImages.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(0, 50));

        panel.add(btnExtractImages);

        btnExtractImages.setActionCommand("x");
        btnExtractImages.addActionListener((ActionListener) this);

        JSeparator separator_2 = new JSeparator();
        panel.add(separator_2);

        //////////////////New Button//////////////////

        JButton btnParseRIDValues = new JButton("3. Parse rId Values");
        btnParseRIDValues.setAlignmentX(Component.CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
        btnParseRIDValues.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(160, 0));
        btnParseRIDValues.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(0, 50));

        panel.add(btnParseRIDValues);

        btnParseRIDValues.setActionCommand("y");
        btnParseRIDValues.addActionListener((ActionListener) this);

        JSeparator separator_1 = new JSeparator();
        panel.add(separator_1);

        //////////////////New Button//////////////////

        JButton btnParseImageInfo = new JButton("4. Parse Image Info.");
        btnParseImageInfo.setAlignmentX(Component.CENTER_ALIGNMENT);
        btnParseImageInfo.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(160, 0));
        btnParseImageInfo.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(0, 50));

        panel.add(btnParseImageInfo);

        btnParseImageInfo.setActionCommand("z");
        btnParseImageInfo.addActionListener((ActionListener) this);
    }

    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) 
    {
        String command = event.getActionCommand();

        if (command.equals("w"))
        {
            FileConverter fc = new FileConverter();
            btnConvertDocuments.setEnabled(false);
        }
        else if (command.equals("x"))
        {
            ImageExtractor ie = new ImageExtractor();
            btnExtractImages.setEnabled(false);
        }
        else if (command.equals("y")) 
        {
            XMLIDParser xip = new XMLIDParser();
            btnParseRIDValues.setEnabled(false);
        }
        else if (command.equals("z")) 
        {
            XMLTagParser xtp = new XMLTagParser();
            btnParseImageInfo.setEnabled(false);        
        }
    }


}

Here is the solution I came up with thanks to everyone's help. Thank you again everyone for your input, really appreciate it!

How to use performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: with primitive types in Cocoa?

Pehaps...ok, very likely, I'm missing something, but why not just create an object type, say NSNumber, as a container to your non-object type variable, such as CGFloat?

CGFloat myFloat = 2.0; 
NSNumber *myNumber = [NSNumber numberWithFloat:myFloat];

[self performSelector:@selector(MyCalculatorMethod:) withObject:myNumber afterDelay:5.0];

How to print object array in JavaScript?

You can just use the following syntax and the object will be fully shown in the console:

console.log('object evt: %O', object);

I use Chrome browser don't know if this is adaptable for other browsers.

How to find memory leak in a C++ code/project?

Search your code for occurrences of new, and make sure that they all occur within a constructor with a matching delete in a destructor. Make sure that this is the only possibly throwing operation in that constructor. A simple way to do this is to wrap all pointers in std::auto_ptr, or boost::scoped_ptr (depending on whether or not you need move semantics). For all future code just ensure that every resource is owned by an object that cleans up the resource in its destructor. If you need move semantics then you can upgrade to a compiler that supports r-value references (VS2010 does I believe) and create move constructors. If you don't want to do that then you can use a variety of tricky techniques involving conscientious usage of swap, or try the Boost.Move library.

Error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'stdafx.h'

You have to properly understand what is a "stdafx.h", aka precompiled header. Other questions or Wikipedia will answer that. In many cases a precompiled header can be avoided, especially if your project is small and with few dependencies. In your case, as you probably started from a template project, it was used to include Windows.h only for the _TCHAR macro.

Then, precompiled header is usually a per-project file in Visual Studio world, so:

  1. Ensure you have the file "stdafx.h" in your project. If you don't (e.g. you removed it) just create a new temporary project and copy the default one from there;
  2. Change the #include <stdafx.h> to #include "stdafx.h". It is supposed to be a project local file, not to be resolved in include directories.

Secondly: it's inadvisable to include the precompiled header in your own headers, to not clutter namespace of other source that can use your code as a library, so completely remove its inclusion in vector.h.

How can I replace every occurrence of a String in a file with PowerShell?

Here's a fairly simple one that supports multiline regular expressions, multiple files (using the pipeline), specifying output encoding, etc. Not recommended for very large files due to the ReadAllText method.

# Update-FileText.ps1

#requires -version 2

<#
.SYNOPSIS
Updates text in files using a regular expression.

.DESCRIPTION
Updates text in files using a regular expression.

.PARAMETER Pattern
Specifies the regular expression pattern.

.PARAMETER Replacement
Specifies the regular expression replacement pattern.

.PARAMETER Path
Specifies the path to one or more files. Wildcards are not supported. Each file is read entirely into memory to support multi-line searching and replacing, so performance may be slow for large files.

.PARAMETER CaseSensitive
Specifies case-sensitive matching. The default is to ignore case.

.PARAMETER SimpleMatch
Specifies a simple match rather than a regular expression match (i.e., the Pattern parameter specifies a simple string rather than a regular expression).

.PARAMETER Multiline
Changes the meaning of ^ and $ so they match at the beginning and end, respectively, of any line, and not just the beginning and end of the entire file. The default is that ^ and $, respectively, match the beginning and end of the entire file.

.PARAMETER UnixText
Causes $ to match only linefeed (\n) characters. By default, $ matches carriage return+linefeed (\r\n). (Windows-based text files usually use \r\n as line terminators, while Unix-based text files usually use only \n.)

.PARAMETER Overwrite
Overwrites a file by creating a temporary file containing all replacements and then replacing the original file with the temporary file. The default is to output but not overwrite.

.PARAMETER Force
Allows overwriting of read-only files. Note that this parameter cannot override security restrictions.

.PARAMETER Encoding
Specifies the encoding for the file when -Overwrite is used. Possible values for this parameter are ASCII, BigEndianUnicode, Unicode, UTF32, UTF7, and UTF8. The default value is ASCII.

.INPUTS
System.IO.FileInfo.

.OUTPUTS
System.String (single-line file) or System.String[] (file with more than one line) without the -Overwrite parameter, or nothing with the -Overwrite parameter.

.LINK
about_Regular_Expressions

.EXAMPLE
C:\> Update-FileText.ps1 '(Ferb) and (Phineas)' '$2 and $1' Story.txt

This command replaces the text 'Ferb and Phineas' with the text 'Phineas and Ferb' in the file Story.txt and outputs the content. Note that the pattern and replacement strings are enclosed in single quotes to prevent variable expansion.

.EXAMPLE
C:\> Update-FileText.ps1 'Perry' 'Agent P' Story2.txt -Overwrite

This command replaces the text 'Perry' with the text 'Agent P' in the file Story2.txt.
#>

[CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess = $true,ConfirmImpact = "High")]
param(
  [Parameter(Mandatory = $true,Position = 0,ValueFromPipeline = $true)]
  [String[]] $Path,

  [Parameter(Mandatory = $true,Position = 1)]
  [String] $Pattern,

  [Parameter(Mandatory = $true,Position = 2)]
  [AllowEmptyString()]
  [String] $Replacement,

  [Switch] $CaseSensitive,

  [Switch] $SimpleMatch,

  [Switch] $Multiline,

  [Switch] $UnixText,

  [Switch] $Overwrite,

  [Switch] $Force,

  [ValidateSet("ASCII","BigEndianUnicode","Unicode","UTF32","UTF7","UTF8")]
  [String] $Encoding = "ASCII"
)

begin {
  function Get-TempName {
    param(
      $path
    )
    do {
      $tempName = Join-Path $path ([IO.Path]::GetRandomFilename())
    }
    while ( Test-Path $tempName )
    $tempName
  }

  if ( $SimpleMatch ) {
      $Pattern = [Regex]::Escape($Pattern)
  }
  else {
    if ( -not $UnixText ) {
      $Pattern = $Pattern -replace '(?<!\\)\$','\r$'
    }
  }

  function New-Regex {
    $regexOpts = [Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions]::None
    if ( -not $CaseSensitive ) {
      $regexOpts = $regexOpts -bor [Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions]::IgnoreCase
    }
    if ( $Multiline ) {
      $regexOpts = $regexOpts -bor [Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions]::Multiline
    }
    New-Object Text.RegularExpressions.Regex $Pattern,$regexOpts
  }

  $Regex = New-Regex

  function Update-FileText {
    param(
      $path
    )
    $pathInfo = Resolve-Path -LiteralPath $path
    if ( $pathInfo ) {
      if ( (Get-Item $pathInfo).GetType().FullName -eq "System.IO.FileInfo" ) {
        $fullName = $pathInfo.Path
        Write-Verbose "Reading '$fullName'"
        $text = [IO.File]::ReadAllText($fullName)
        Write-Verbose "Finished reading '$fullName'"
        if ( -not $Overwrite ) {
          $regex.Replace($text,$Replacement)
        }
        else {
          $tempName = Get-TempName (Split-Path $fullName -Parent)
          Set-Content $tempName $null -Confirm:$false
          if ( $? ) {
            Write-Verbose "Created file '$tempName'"
            try {
              Write-Verbose "Started writing '$tempName'"
              [IO.File]::WriteAllText("$tempName",$Regex.Replace($text,$Replacement),[Text.Encoding]::$Encoding)
              Write-Verbose "Finished writing '$tempName'"
              Write-Verbose "Started copying '$tempName' to '$fullName'"
              Copy-Item $tempName $fullName -Force:$Force -ErrorAction Continue
              if ( $? ) {
                Write-Verbose "Finished copying '$tempName' to '$fullName'"
              }
              Remove-Item $tempName
              if ( $? ) {
                Write-Verbose "Removed file '$tempName'"
              }
            }
            catch [Management.Automation.MethodInvocationException] {
              Write-Error $Error[0]
            }
          }
        }
      }
      else {
        Write-Error "The item '$path' must be a file in the file system." -Category InvalidType
      }
    }
  }
}

process {
  foreach ( $PathItem in $Path ) {
    if ( $Overwrite ) {
      if ( $PSCmdlet.ShouldProcess("'$PathItem'","Overwrite file") ) {
        Update-FileText $PathItem
      }
    }
    else {
      Update-FileText $PathItem
    }
  }
}

Also available as a gist on Github.

Prevent linebreak after </div>

use this code for normal div display: inline;

use this code if u use it in table display: inline-table; better than table

How to hide element label by element id in CSS?

Without a class or an id, and with your specific html:

table tr td label {display:none}

Otherwise if you have jQuery

$('label[for="foo"]').css('display', 'none');

JavaScript operator similar to SQL "like"

Use the string objects Match method:

// Match a string that ends with abc, similar to LIKE '%abc'
if (theString.match(/^.*abc$/)) 
{ 
    /*Match found */
}

// Match a string that starts with abc, similar to LIKE 'abc%'
if (theString.match(/^abc.*$/)) 
{ 
    /*Match found */
}

Linux: is there a read or recv from socket with timeout?

Here's some simple code to add a time out to your recv function using poll in C:

struct pollfd fd;
int ret;

fd.fd = mySocket; // your socket handler 
fd.events = POLLIN;
ret = poll(&fd, 1, 1000); // 1 second for timeout
switch (ret) {
    case -1:
        // Error
        break;
    case 0:
        // Timeout 
        break;
    default:
        recv(mySocket,buf,sizeof(buf), 0); // get your data
        break;
}

How to create Python egg file

You are reading the wrong documentation. You want this: https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html#develop-deploy-the-project-source-in-development-mode

  1. Creating setup.py is covered in the distutils documentation in Python's standard library documentation here. The main difference (for python eggs) is you import setup from setuptools, not distutils.

  2. Yep. That should be right.

  3. I don't think so. pyc files can be version and platform dependent. You might be able to open the egg (they should just be zip files) and delete .py files leaving .pyc files, but it wouldn't be recommended.

  4. I'm not sure. That might be “Development Mode”. Or are you looking for some “py2exe” or “py2app” mode?

How do I list loaded plugins in Vim?

:help local-additions

Lists local plugins added.

Android button background color

If you don't mind hardcoding it you can do this ~> android:background="#eeeeee" and drop any hex color # you wish.

Looks like this....

<Button
    android:id="@+id/button1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"
    android:text="@string/ClickMe"
    android:background="#fff"/>

How to decode viewstate

Here's an online ViewState decoder:

http://ignatu.co.uk/ViewStateDecoder.aspx

Edit: Unfortunatey, the above link is dead - here's another ViewState decoder (from the comments):

http://viewstatedecoder.azurewebsites.net/

How to insert a string which contains an "&"

The correct syntax is

set def off;
insert into tablename values( 'J&J');

Java error: Comparison method violates its general contract

I had to sort on several criterion (date, and, if same date; other things...). What was working on Eclipse with an older version of Java, did not worked any more on Android : comparison method violates contract ...

After reading on StackOverflow, I wrote a separate function that I called from compare() if the dates are the same. This function calculates the priority, according to the criteria, and returns -1, 0, or 1 to compare(). It seems to work now.

Run Jquery function on window events: load, resize, and scroll?

You can bind listeners to one common functions -

$(window).bind("load resize scroll",function(e){
  // do stuff
});

Or another way -

$(window).bind({
     load:function(){

     },
     resize:function(){

     },
     scroll:function(){

    }
});

Alternatively, instead of using .bind() you can use .on() as bind directly maps to on(). And maybe .bind() won't be there in future jquery versions.

$(window).on({
     load:function(){

     },
     resize:function(){

     },
     scroll:function(){

    }
});

Set timeout for ajax (jQuery)

Here's some examples that demonstrate setting and detecting timeouts in jQuery's old and new paradigmes.

Live Demo

Promise with jQuery 1.8+

Promise.resolve(
  $.ajax({
    url: '/getData',
    timeout:3000 //3 second timeout
  })
).then(function(){
  //do something
}).catch(function(e) {
  if(e.statusText == 'timeout')
  {     
    alert('Native Promise: Failed from timeout'); 
    //do something. Try again perhaps?
  }
});

jQuery 1.8+

$.ajax({
    url: '/getData',
    timeout:3000 //3 second timeout
}).done(function(){
    //do something
}).fail(function(jqXHR, textStatus){
    if(textStatus === 'timeout')
    {     
        alert('Failed from timeout'); 
        //do something. Try again perhaps?
    }
});?

jQuery <= 1.7.2

$.ajax({
    url: '/getData',
    error: function(jqXHR, textStatus){
        if(textStatus === 'timeout')
        {     
             alert('Failed from timeout');         
            //do something. Try again perhaps?
        }
    },
    success: function(){
        //do something
    },
    timeout:3000 //3 second timeout
});

Notice that the textStatus param (or jqXHR.statusText) will let you know what the error was. This may be useful if you want to know that the failure was caused by a timeout.

error(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown)

A function to be called if the request fails. The function receives three arguments: The jqXHR (in jQuery 1.4.x, XMLHttpRequest) object, a string describing the type of error that occurred and an optional exception object, if one occurred. Possible values for the second argument (besides null) are "timeout", "error", "abort", and "parsererror". When an HTTP error occurs, errorThrown receives the textual portion of the HTTP status, such as "Not Found" or "Internal Server Error." As of jQuery 1.5, the error setting can accept an array of functions. Each function will be called in turn. Note: This handler is not called for cross-domain script and JSONP requests.

src: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/

background-image: url("images/plaid.jpg") no-repeat; wont show up

Try this:

body
{ 
    background:url("images/plaid.jpg") no-repeat fixed center;
}

jsfiddle example: http://jsfiddle.net/Q9Zfa/

How to use Macro argument as string literal?

Perhaps you try this solution:

#define QUANTIDISCHI 6
#define QUDI(x) #x
#define QUdi(x) QUDI(x)
. . . 
. . .
unsigned char TheNumber[] = "QUANTIDISCHI = " QUdi(QUANTIDISCHI) "\n";

Change the mouse pointer using JavaScript

Javascript is pretty good at manipulating css.

 document.body.style.cursor = *cursor-url*;
 //OR
 var elementToChange = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0];
 elementToChange.style.cursor = "url('cursor url with protocol'), auto";

or with jquery:

$("html").css("cursor: url('cursor url with protocol'), auto");

Firefox will not work unless you specify a default cursor after the imaged one!

other cursor keywords

Also remember that IE6 only supports .cur and .ani cursors.

If cursor doesn't change: In case you are moving the element under the cursor relative to the cursor position (e.g. element dragging) you have to force a redraw on the element:

// in plain js
document.getElementById('parentOfElementToBeRedrawn').style.display = 'none';
document.getElementById('parentOfElementToBeRedrawn').style.display = 'block';
// in jquery
$('#parentOfElementToBeRedrawn').hide().show(0);

working sample:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>First jQuery-Enabled Page</title>
<style type="text/css">

div {
    height: 100px;
    width: 1000px;
    background-color: red;
}

</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.js"></script></head>
<body>
<div>
hello with a fancy cursor!
</div>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].style.cursor = "url('http://wiki-devel.sugarlabs.org/images/e/e2/Arrow.cur'), auto";


</script>
</html>

Writing string to a file on a new line every time

If you use it extensively (a lot of written lines), you can subclass 'file':

class cfile(file):
    #subclass file to have a more convienient use of writeline
    def __init__(self, name, mode = 'r'):
        self = file.__init__(self, name, mode)

    def wl(self, string):
        self.writelines(string + '\n')

Now it offers an additional function wl that does what you want:

fid = cfile('filename.txt', 'w')
fid.wl('appends newline charachter')
fid.wl('is written on a new line')
fid.close()

Maybe I am missing something like different newline characters (\n, \r, ...) or that the last line is also terminated with a newline, but it works for me.

Fastest way to convert Image to Byte array

There is a RawFormat property of Image parameter which returns the file format of the image. You might try the following:

// extension method
public static byte[] imageToByteArray(this System.Drawing.Image image)
{
    using(var ms = new MemoryStream())
    {
        image.Save(ms, image.RawFormat);
        return ms.ToArray();
    }
}

Set Colorbar Range in matplotlib

Using vmin and vmax forces the range for the colors. Here's an example:

enter image description here

import matplotlib as m
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

cdict = {
  'red'  :  ( (0.0, 0.25, .25), (0.02, .59, .59), (1., 1., 1.)),
  'green':  ( (0.0, 0.0, 0.0), (0.02, .45, .45), (1., .97, .97)),
  'blue' :  ( (0.0, 1.0, 1.0), (0.02, .75, .75), (1., 0.45, 0.45))
}

cm = m.colors.LinearSegmentedColormap('my_colormap', cdict, 1024)

x = np.arange(0, 10, .1)
y = np.arange(0, 10, .1)
X, Y = np.meshgrid(x,y)

data = 2*( np.sin(X) + np.sin(3*Y) )

def do_plot(n, f, title):
    #plt.clf()
    plt.subplot(1, 3, n)
    plt.pcolor(X, Y, f(data), cmap=cm, vmin=-4, vmax=4)
    plt.title(title)
    plt.colorbar()

plt.figure()
do_plot(1, lambda x:x, "all")
do_plot(2, lambda x:np.clip(x, -4, 0), "<0")
do_plot(3, lambda x:np.clip(x, 0, 4), ">0")
plt.show()

How to make a form close when pressing the escape key?

Paste this code into the "On Key Down" Property of your form, also make sure you set "Key Preview" Property to "Yes".

If KeyCode = vbKeyEscape Then DoCmd.Close acForm, "YOUR FORM NAME"

Customize Bootstrap checkboxes

Here you have an example styling checkboxes and radios using Font Awesome 5 free[

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  /*General style*/_x000D_
  .custom-checkbox label, .custom-radio label {_x000D_
    position: relative;_x000D_
    cursor: pointer;_x000D_
    color: #666;_x000D_
    font-size: 30px;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
 .custom-checkbox input[type="checkbox"] ,.custom-radio input[type="radio"] {_x000D_
    position: absolute;_x000D_
    right: 9000px;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
   /*Custom checkboxes style*/_x000D_
  .custom-checkbox input[type="checkbox"]+.label-text:before {_x000D_
    content: "\f0c8";_x000D_
    font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Pro";_x000D_
    speak: none;_x000D_
    font-style: normal;_x000D_
    font-weight: normal;_x000D_
    font-variant: normal;_x000D_
    text-transform: none;_x000D_
    line-height: 1;_x000D_
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;_x000D_
    width: 1em;_x000D_
    display: inline-block;_x000D_
    margin-right: 5px;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  .custom-checkbox input[type="checkbox"]:checked+.label-text:before {_x000D_
    content: "\f14a";_x000D_
    color: #2980b9;_x000D_
    animation: effect 250ms ease-in;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  .custom-checkbox input[type="checkbox"]:disabled+.label-text {_x000D_
    color: #aaa;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  .custom-checkbox input[type="checkbox"]:disabled+.label-text:before {_x000D_
    content: "\f0c8";_x000D_
    color: #ccc;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
_x000D_
   /*Custom checkboxes style*/_x000D_
  .custom-radio input[type="radio"]+.label-text:before {_x000D_
    content: "\f111";_x000D_
    font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Pro";_x000D_
    speak: none;_x000D_
    font-style: normal;_x000D_
    font-weight: normal;_x000D_
    font-variant: normal;_x000D_
    text-transform: none;_x000D_
    line-height: 1;_x000D_
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;_x000D_
    width: 1em;_x000D_
    display: inline-block;_x000D_
    margin-right: 5px;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
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  .custom-radio input[type="radio"]:checked+.label-text:before {_x000D_
    content: "\f192";_x000D_
    color: #8e44ad;_x000D_
    animation: effect 250ms ease-in;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
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  .custom-radio input[type="radio"]:disabled+.label-text {_x000D_
    color: #aaa;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
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  .custom-radio input[type="radio"]:disabled+.label-text:before {_x000D_
    content: "\f111";_x000D_
    color: #ccc;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
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  @keyframes effect {_x000D_
    0% {_x000D_
      transform: scale(0);_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    25% {_x000D_
      transform: scale(1.3);_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    75% {_x000D_
      transform: scale(1.4);_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    100% {_x000D_
      transform: scale(1);_x000D_
    }_x000D_
  }
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<script src="https://kit.fontawesome.com/2a10ab39d6.js"></script>_x000D_
<div class="col-md-4">_x000D_
  <form>_x000D_
    <h2>1. Customs Checkboxes</h2>_x000D_
    <div class="custom-checkbox">_x000D_
      <div class="form-check">_x000D_
        <label>_x000D_
                    <input type="checkbox" name="check" checked> <span class="label-text">Option 01</span>_x000D_
                </label>_x000D_
      </div>_x000D_
      <div class="form-check">_x000D_
        <label>_x000D_
                    <input type="checkbox" name="check"> <span class="label-text">Option 02</span>_x000D_
                </label>_x000D_
      </div>_x000D_
      <div class="form-check">_x000D_
        <label>_x000D_
                    <input type="checkbox" name="check"> <span class="label-text">Option 03</span>_x000D_
                </label>_x000D_
      </div>_x000D_
      <div class="form-check">_x000D_
        <label>_x000D_
                    <input type="checkbox" name="check" disabled> <span class="label-text">Option 04</span>_x000D_
                </label>_x000D_
      </div>_x000D_
    </div>_x000D_
  </form>_x000D_
</div>_x000D_
<div class="col-md-4">_x000D_
  <form>_x000D_
    <h2>2. Customs Radios</h2>_x000D_
    <div class="custom-radio">_x000D_
_x000D_
      <div class="form-check">_x000D_
        <label>_x000D_
                    <input type="radio" name="radio" checked> <span class="label-text">Option 01</span>_x000D_
                </label>_x000D_
      </div>_x000D_
      <div class="form-check">_x000D_
        <label>_x000D_
                    <input type="radio" name="radio"> <span class="label-text">Option 02</span>_x000D_
                </label>_x000D_
      </div>_x000D_
      <div class="form-check">_x000D_
        <label>_x000D_
                    <input type="radio" name="radio"> <span class="label-text">Option 03</span>_x000D_
                </label>_x000D_
      </div>_x000D_
      <div class="form-check">_x000D_
        <label>_x000D_
                    <input type="radio" name="radio" disabled> <span class="label-text">Option 04</span>_x000D_
                </label>_x000D_
      </div>_x000D_
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  </form>_x000D_
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Activity, AppCompatActivity, FragmentActivity, and ActionBarActivity: When to Use Which?

Since the name is likely to change in future versions of Android (currently the latest is AppCompatActivity but it will probably change at some point), I believe a good thing to have is a class Activity that extends AppCompatActivity and then all your activities extend from that one. If tomorrow, they change the name to AppCompatActivity2 for instance you will have to change it just in one place.

Environment variables for java installation

Java SE Development Kit 8u112 on a 64-bit Windows 7 or Windows 8

Set the following user environment variables (== environment variables of type user variables)

  • JAVA_HOME : C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_112
  • JDK_HOME : %JAVA_HOME%
  • JRE_HOME : %JAVA_HOME%\jre
  • CLASSPATH : .;%JAVA_HOME%\lib;%JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib
  • PATH : your-unique-entries;%JAVA_HOME%\bin (make sure that the longish your-unique-entries does not contain any other references to another Java installation folder.

Note for Windows users on 64-bit systems:

Progra~1 = 'Program Files'
Progra~2 = 'Program Files(x86)'

Notice that these environment variables are derived from the "root" environment variable JAVA_HOME. This makes it easy to update your environment variables when updating the JDK. Just point JAVA_HOME to the fresh installation.

There is a blogpost explaining the rationale behind all these environment variables.

Optional recommendations

  • Add an user environment variable JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS with value -Dfile.encoding="UTF-8". This ensures that Java (and tools such as Maven) will run with a Charset.defaultCharset() of UTF-8 (instead of the default Windows-1252). This has saved a lot of headaches when wirking with my own code and that of others, which unfortunately often assume the (sane) default encoding UTF-8.
  • When JDK is installed, it adds to the system environment variable Path an entry C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;. I anecdotally noticed that the links in that directory didn't get updated during an JDK installation update. So it's best to remove C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath; from the Path system environment variable in order to have a consistent environment.

How do I iterate through children elements of a div using jQuery?

I don't think that you need to use each(), you can use standard for loop

var children = $element.children().not(".pb-sortable-placeholder");
for (var i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {
    var currentChild = children.eq(i);
    // whatever logic you want
    var oldPosition = currentChild.data("position");
}

this way you can have the standard for loop features like break and continue works by default

also, the debugging will be easier

Understanding typedefs for function pointers in C

Consider the signal() function from the C standard:

extern void (*signal(int, void(*)(int)))(int);

Perfectly obscurely obvious - it's a function that takes two arguments, an integer and a pointer to a function that takes an integer as an argument and returns nothing, and it (signal()) returns a pointer to a function that takes an integer as an argument and returns nothing.

If you write:

typedef void (*SignalHandler)(int signum);

then you can instead declare signal() as:

extern  SignalHandler signal(int signum, SignalHandler handler);

This means the same thing, but is usually regarded as somewhat easier to read. It is clearer that the function takes an int and a SignalHandler and returns a SignalHandler.

It takes a bit of getting used to, though. The one thing you can't do, though is write a signal handler function using the SignalHandler typedef in the function definition.

I'm still of the old-school that prefers to invoke a function pointer as:

(*functionpointer)(arg1, arg2, ...);

Modern syntax uses just:

functionpointer(arg1, arg2, ...);

I can see why that works - I just prefer to know that I need to look for where the variable is initialized rather than for a function called functionpointer.


Sam commented:

I have seen this explanation before. And then, as is the case now, I think what I didn't get was the connection between the two statements:

    extern void (*signal(int, void()(int)))(int);  /*and*/

    typedef void (*SignalHandler)(int signum);
    extern SignalHandler signal(int signum, SignalHandler handler);

Or, what I want to ask is, what is the underlying concept that one can use to come up with the second version you have? What is the fundamental that connects "SignalHandler" and the first typedef? I think what needs to be explained here is what is typedef is actually doing here.

Let's try again. The first of these is lifted straight from the C standard - I retyped it, and checked that I had the parentheses right (not until I corrected it - it is a tough cookie to remember).

First of all, remember that typedef introduces an alias for a type. So, the alias is SignalHandler, and its type is:

a pointer to a function that takes an integer as an argument and returns nothing.

The 'returns nothing' part is spelled void; the argument that is an integer is (I trust) self-explanatory. The following notation is simply (or not) how C spells pointer to function taking arguments as specified and returning the given type:

type (*function)(argtypes);

After creating the signal handler type, I can use it to declare variables and so on. For example:

static void alarm_catcher(int signum)
{
    fprintf(stderr, "%s() called (%d)\n", __func__, signum);
}

static void signal_catcher(int signum)
{
    fprintf(stderr, "%s() called (%d) - exiting\n", __func__, signum);
    exit(1);
}

static struct Handlers
{
    int              signum;
    SignalHandler    handler;
} handler[] =
{
    { SIGALRM,   alarm_catcher  },
    { SIGINT,    signal_catcher },
    { SIGQUIT,   signal_catcher },
};

int main(void)
{
    size_t num_handlers = sizeof(handler) / sizeof(handler[0]);
    size_t i;

    for (i = 0; i < num_handlers; i++)
    {
        SignalHandler old_handler = signal(handler[i].signum, SIG_IGN);
        if (old_handler != SIG_IGN)
            old_handler = signal(handler[i].signum, handler[i].handler);
        assert(old_handler == SIG_IGN);
    }

    ...continue with ordinary processing...

    return(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}

Please note How to avoid using printf() in a signal handler?

So, what have we done here - apart from omit 4 standard headers that would be needed to make the code compile cleanly?

The first two functions are functions that take a single integer and return nothing. One of them actually doesn't return at all thanks to the exit(1); but the other does return after printing a message. Be aware that the C standard does not permit you to do very much inside a signal handler; POSIX is a bit more generous in what is allowed, but officially does not sanction calling fprintf(). I also print out the signal number that was received. In the alarm_handler() function, the value will always be SIGALRM as that is the only signal that it is a handler for, but signal_handler() might get SIGINT or SIGQUIT as the signal number because the same function is used for both.

Then I create an array of structures, where each element identifies a signal number and the handler to be installed for that signal. I've chosen to worry about 3 signals; I'd often worry about SIGHUP, SIGPIPE and SIGTERM too and about whether they are defined (#ifdef conditional compilation), but that just complicates things. I'd also probably use POSIX sigaction() instead of signal(), but that is another issue; let's stick with what we started with.

The main() function iterates over the list of handlers to be installed. For each handler, it first calls signal() to find out whether the process is currently ignoring the signal, and while doing so, installs SIG_IGN as the handler, which ensures that the signal stays ignored. If the signal was not previously being ignored, it then calls signal() again, this time to install the preferred signal handler. (The other value is presumably SIG_DFL, the default signal handler for the signal.) Because the first call to 'signal()' set the handler to SIG_IGN and signal() returns the previous error handler, the value of old after the if statement must be SIG_IGN - hence the assertion. (Well, it could be SIG_ERR if something went dramatically wrong - but then I'd learn about that from the assert firing.)

The program then does its stuff and exits normally.

Note that the name of a function can be regarded as a pointer to a function of the appropriate type. When you do not apply the function-call parentheses - as in the initializers, for example - the function name becomes a function pointer. This is also why it is reasonable to invoke functions via the pointertofunction(arg1, arg2) notation; when you see alarm_handler(1), you can consider that alarm_handler is a pointer to the function and therefore alarm_handler(1) is an invocation of a function via a function pointer.

So, thus far, I've shown that a SignalHandler variable is relatively straight-forward to use, as long as you have some of the right type of value to assign to it - which is what the two signal handler functions provide.

Now we get back to the question - how do the two declarations for signal() relate to each other.

Let's review the second declaration:

 extern SignalHandler signal(int signum, SignalHandler handler);

If we changed the function name and the type like this:

 extern double function(int num1, double num2);

you would have no problem interpreting this as a function that takes an int and a double as arguments and returns a double value (would you? maybe you'd better not 'fess up if that is problematic - but maybe you should be cautious about asking questions as hard as this one if it is a problem).

Now, instead of being a double, the signal() function takes a SignalHandler as its second argument, and it returns one as its result.

The mechanics by which that can also be treated as:

extern void (*signal(int signum, void(*handler)(int signum)))(int signum);

are tricky to explain - so I'll probably screw it up. This time I've given the parameters names - though the names aren't critical.

In general, in C, the declaration mechanism is such that if you write:

type var;

then when you write var it represents a value of the given type. For example:

int     i;            // i is an int
int    *ip;           // *ip is an int, so ip is a pointer to an integer
int     abs(int val); // abs(-1) is an int, so abs is a (pointer to a)
                      // function returning an int and taking an int argument

In the standard, typedef is treated as a storage class in the grammar, rather like static and extern are storage classes.

typedef void (*SignalHandler)(int signum);

means that when you see a variable of type SignalHandler (say alarm_handler) invoked as:

(*alarm_handler)(-1);

the result has type void - there is no result. And (*alarm_handler)(-1); is an invocation of alarm_handler() with argument -1.

So, if we declared:

extern SignalHandler alt_signal(void);

it means that:

(*alt_signal)();

represents a void value. And therefore:

extern void (*alt_signal(void))(int signum);

is equivalent. Now, signal() is more complex because it not only returns a SignalHandler, it also accepts both an int and a SignalHandler as arguments:

extern void (*signal(int signum, SignalHandler handler))(int signum);

extern void (*signal(int signum, void (*handler)(int signum)))(int signum);

If that still confuses you, I'm not sure how to help - it is still at some levels mysterious to me, but I've grown used to how it works and can therefore tell you that if you stick with it for another 25 years or so, it will become second nature to you (and maybe even a bit quicker if you are clever).

How to split a delimited string into an array in awk?

To split a string to an array in awk we use the function split():

 awk '{split($0, a, ":")}'
 #           ^^  ^  ^^^
 #            |  |   |
 #       string  |   delimiter
 #               |
 #               array to store the pieces

If no separator is given, it uses the FS, which defaults to the space:

$ awk '{split($0, a); print a[2]}' <<< "a:b c:d e"
c:d

We can give a separator, for example ::

$ awk '{split($0, a, ":"); print a[2]}' <<< "a:b c:d e"
b c

Which is equivalent to setting it through the FS:

$ awk -F: '{split($0, a); print a[1]}' <<< "a:b c:d e"
b c

In gawk you can also provide the separator as a regexp:

$ awk '{split($0, a, ":*"); print a[2]}' <<< "a:::b c::d e" #note multiple :
b c

And even see what the delimiter was on every step by using its fourth parameter:

$ awk '{split($0, a, ":*", sep); print a[2]; print sep[1]}' <<< "a:::b c::d e"
b c
:::

Let's quote the man page of GNU awk:

split(string, array [, fieldsep [, seps ] ])

Divide string into pieces separated by fieldsep and store the pieces in array and the separator strings in the seps array. The first piece is stored in array[1], the second piece in array[2], and so forth. The string value of the third argument, fieldsep, is a regexp describing where to split string (much as FS can be a regexp describing where to split input records). If fieldsep is omitted, the value of FS is used. split() returns the number of elements created. seps is a gawk extension, with seps[i] being the separator string between array[i] and array[i+1]. If fieldsep is a single space, then any leading whitespace goes into seps[0] and any trailing whitespace goes into seps[n], where n is the return value of split() (i.e., the number of elements in array).

How can I use Google's Roboto font on a website?

You don't really need to do any of this.

  • Go to Google's Web Fonts page
  • search for Roboto in the search box at the top right
  • Select the variants of the font you want to use
  • click 'Select This Font' at the top and choose the weights and character sets you need.

The page will give you a <link> element to include in your pages, and a list of sample font-family rules to use in your CSS.

Using Google's fonts this way guarantees availability, and reduces bandwidth to your own server.

Android Studio not showing modules in project structure

Had similar issue when running version control on a project in Android Studio (0.4.2). When pulling it down to a new location and importing the modules, only the "Android SDK" were showing in the Project Structure.

I removed the .idea/ folder from the version control, by adding it to .gitignore file, and did a fresh pull and imported the modules. Now all the settings appeared correctly in the Project Settings and Platform Settings for the Project Structure.

move_uploaded_file gives "failed to open stream: Permission denied" error

If you have Mac OS X, go to the file root or the folder of your website.

Then right-hand click on it, go to get information, go to the very bottom (Sharing & Permissions), open that, change all read-only to read and write. Make sure to open padlock, go to setting icon, and choose Apply to the enclosed items...

What is the easiest way to remove the first character from a string?

Using regex:

str = 'string'
n = 1  #to remove first n characters

str[/.{#{str.size-n}}\z/] #=> "tring"

How to get hostname from IP (Linux)?

In order to use nslookup, host or gethostbyname() then the target's name will need to be registered with DNS or statically defined in the hosts file on the machine running your program. Yes, you could connect to the target with SSH or some other application and query it directly, but for a generic solution you'll need some sort of DNS entry for it.

What is Scala's yield?

I think the accepted answer is great, but it seems many people have failed to grasp some fundamental points.

First, Scala's for comprehensions are equivalent to Haskell's do notation, and it is nothing more than a syntactic sugar for composition of multiple monadic operations. As this statement will most likely not help anyone who needs help, let's try again… :-)

Scala's for comprehensions is syntactic sugar for composition of multiple operations with map, flatMap and filter. Or foreach. Scala actually translates a for-expression into calls to those methods, so any class providing them, or a subset of them, can be used with for comprehensions.

First, let's talk about the translations. There are very simple rules:

  1. This

    for(x <- c1; y <- c2; z <-c3) {...}
    

    is translated into

    c1.foreach(x => c2.foreach(y => c3.foreach(z => {...})))
    
  2. This

    for(x <- c1; y <- c2; z <- c3) yield {...}
    

    is translated into

    c1.flatMap(x => c2.flatMap(y => c3.map(z => {...})))
    
  3. This

    for(x <- c; if cond) yield {...}
    

    is translated on Scala 2.7 into

    c.filter(x => cond).map(x => {...})
    

    or, on Scala 2.8, into

    c.withFilter(x => cond).map(x => {...})
    

    with a fallback into the former if method withFilter is not available but filter is. Please see the section below for more information on this.

  4. This

    for(x <- c; y = ...) yield {...}
    

    is translated into

    c.map(x => (x, ...)).map((x,y) => {...})
    

When you look at very simple for comprehensions, the map/foreach alternatives look, indeed, better. Once you start composing them, though, you can easily get lost in parenthesis and nesting levels. When that happens, for comprehensions are usually much clearer.

I'll show one simple example, and intentionally omit any explanation. You can decide which syntax was easier to understand.

l.flatMap(sl => sl.filter(el => el > 0).map(el => el.toString.length))

or

for {
  sl <- l
  el <- sl
  if el > 0
} yield el.toString.length

withFilter

Scala 2.8 introduced a method called withFilter, whose main difference is that, instead of returning a new, filtered, collection, it filters on-demand. The filter method has its behavior defined based on the strictness of the collection. To understand this better, let's take a look at some Scala 2.7 with List (strict) and Stream (non-strict):

scala> var found = false
found: Boolean = false

scala> List.range(1,10).filter(_ % 2 == 1 && !found).foreach(x => if (x == 5) found = true else println(x))
1
3
7
9

scala> found = false
found: Boolean = false

scala> Stream.range(1,10).filter(_ % 2 == 1 && !found).foreach(x => if (x == 5) found = true else println(x))
1
3

The difference happens because filter is immediately applied with List, returning a list of odds -- since found is false. Only then foreach is executed, but, by this time, changing found is meaningless, as filter has already executed.

In the case of Stream, the condition is not immediatelly applied. Instead, as each element is requested by foreach, filter tests the condition, which enables foreach to influence it through found. Just to make it clear, here is the equivalent for-comprehension code:

for (x <- List.range(1, 10); if x % 2 == 1 && !found) 
  if (x == 5) found = true else println(x)

for (x <- Stream.range(1, 10); if x % 2 == 1 && !found) 
  if (x == 5) found = true else println(x)

This caused many problems, because people expected the if to be considered on-demand, instead of being applied to the whole collection beforehand.

Scala 2.8 introduced withFilter, which is always non-strict, no matter the strictness of the collection. The following example shows List with both methods on Scala 2.8:

scala> var found = false
found: Boolean = false

scala> List.range(1,10).filter(_ % 2 == 1 && !found).foreach(x => if (x == 5) found = true else println(x))
1
3
7
9

scala> found = false
found: Boolean = false

scala> List.range(1,10).withFilter(_ % 2 == 1 && !found).foreach(x => if (x == 5) found = true else println(x))
1
3

This produces the result most people expect, without changing how filter behaves. As a side note, Range was changed from non-strict to strict between Scala 2.7 and Scala 2.8.

Lock screen orientation (Android)

I had a similar problem.

When I entered

<activity android:name="MyActivity" android:screenOrientation="landscape"></activity>

In the manifest file this caused that activity to display in landscape. However when I returned to previous activities they displayed in lanscape even though they were set to portrait. However by adding

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);

immediately after the OnCreate section of the target activity resolved the problem. So I now use both methods.

How to make an HTTP get request with parameters

The WebRequest object seems like too much work for me. I prefer to use the WebClient control.

To use this function you just need to create two NameValueCollections holding your parameters and request headers.

Consider the following function:

    private static string DoGET(string URL,NameValueCollection QueryStringParameters = null, NameValueCollection RequestHeaders = null)
    {
        string ResponseText = null;
        using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
        {
            try
            {
                if (RequestHeaders != null)
                {
                    if (RequestHeaders.Count > 0)
                    {
                        foreach (string header in RequestHeaders.AllKeys)
                            client.Headers.Add(header, RequestHeaders[header]);
                    }
                }
                if (QueryStringParameters != null)
                {
                    if (QueryStringParameters.Count > 0)
                    {
                        foreach (string parm in QueryStringParameters.AllKeys)
                            client.QueryString.Add(parm, QueryStringParameters[parm]);
                    }
                }
                byte[] ResponseBytes = client.DownloadData(URL);
                ResponseText = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ResponseBytes);
            }
            catch (WebException exception)
            {
                if (exception.Response != null)
                {
                    var responseStream = exception.Response.GetResponseStream();

                    if (responseStream != null)
                    {
                        using (var reader = new StreamReader(responseStream))
                        {
                            Response.Write(reader.ReadToEnd());
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        return ResponseText;
    }

Add your querystring parameters (if required) as a NameValueCollection like so.

        NameValueCollection QueryStringParameters = new NameValueCollection();
        QueryStringParameters.Add("id", "123");
        QueryStringParameters.Add("category", "A");

Add your http headers (if required) as a NameValueCollection like so.

        NameValueCollection RequestHttpHeaders = new NameValueCollection();
        RequestHttpHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Basic bGF3c2912XBANzg5ITppc2ltCzEF");

How to Specify Eclipse Proxy Authentication Credentials?

In Eclipse, go to Window → Preferences → General → Network Connections. In the Active Provider combo box, choose "Manual". In the proxy entries table, for each entry click "Edit..." and supply your proxy host, port, username and password details.

Eclipse screenshot

Password masking console application

Here is my simple version. Every time you hit a key, delete all from console and draw as many '*' as the length of password string is.

int chr = 0;
string pass = "";
const int ENTER = 13;
const int BS = 8;

do
{
   chr = Console.ReadKey().KeyChar;
   Console.Clear(); //imediately clear the char you printed

   //if the char is not 'return' or 'backspace' add it to pass string
   if (chr != ENTER && chr != BS) pass += (char)chr;

   //if you hit backspace remove last char from pass string
   if (chr == BS) pass = pass.Remove(pass.Length-1, 1);

   for (int i = 0; i < pass.Length; i++)
   {
      Console.Write('*');
   }
} 
 while (chr != ENTER);

Console.Write("\n");
Console.Write(pass);

Console.Read(); //just to see the pass

How to register multiple implementations of the same interface in Asp.Net Core?

Another option is to use the extension method GetServices from Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.

Register your services as:

services.AddSingleton<IService, ServiceA>();
services.AddSingleton<IService, ServiceB>();
services.AddSingleton<IService, ServiceC>();

Then resolve with a little of Linq:

var services = serviceProvider.GetServices<IService>();
var serviceB = services.First(o => o.GetType() == typeof(ServiceB));

or

var serviceZ = services.First(o => o.Name.Equals("Z"));

(assuming that IService has a string property called "Name")

Make sure to have using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;

Update

AspNet 2.1 source: GetServices

changing source on html5 video tag

Modernizr worked like a charm for me.

What I did is that I didn't use <source>. Somehow this screwed things up, since the video only worked the first time load() was called. Instead I used the source attribute inside the video tag -> <video src="blabla.webm" /> and used Modernizr to determine what format the browser supported.

<script>
var v = new Array();

v[0] = [
        "videos/video1.webmvp8.webm",
        "videos/video1.theora.ogv",
        "videos/video1.mp4video.mp4"
        ];
v[1] = [
        "videos/video2.webmvp8.webm",
        "videos/video2.theora.ogv",
        "videos/video2.mp4video.mp4"
        ];
v[2] = [
        "videos/video3.webmvp8.webm",
        "videos/video3.theora.ogv",
        "videos/video3.mp4video.mp4"
        ];

function changeVid(n){
    var video = document.getElementById('video');

    if(Modernizr.video && Modernizr.video.webm) {
        video.setAttribute("src", v[n][0]);
    } else if(Modernizr.video && Modernizr.video.ogg) {
        video.setAttribute("src", v[n][1]);
    } else if(Modernizr.video && Modernizr.video.h264) {
        video.setAttribute("src", v[n][2]);
    }

    video.load();
}
</script>

Hopefully this will help you :)

If you don't want to use Modernizr , you can always use CanPlayType().

Restart android machine

I think the only way to do this is to run another machine in parallel and use that machine to issue commands to your android box similar to how you would with a phone. If you have issues with the IP changing you can reserve an ip on your router and have the machine grab that one instead of asking the routers DHCP for one. This way you can ping the machine and figure out if it's done rebooting to continue the script.

LEFT JOIN only first row

@Matt Dodges answer put me on the right track. Thanks again for all the answers, which helped a lot of guys in the mean time. Got it working like this:

SELECT *
FROM feeds f
LEFT JOIN artists a ON a.artist_id = (
    SELECT artist_id
    FROM feeds_artists fa 
    WHERE fa.feed_id = f.id
    LIMIT 1
)
WHERE f.id = '13815'

Excel 2013 horizontal secondary axis

You should follow the guidelines on Add a secondary horizontal axis:

Add a secondary horizontal axis

To complete this procedure, you must have a chart that displays a secondary vertical axis. To add a secondary vertical axis, see Add a secondary vertical axis.

  1. Click a chart that displays a secondary vertical axis. This displays the Chart Tools, adding the Design, Layout, and Format tabs.

  2. On the Layout tab, in the Axes group, click Axes.

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  3. Click Secondary Horizontal Axis, and then click the display option that you want.

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Add a secondary vertical axis

You can plot data on a secondary vertical axis one data series at a time. To plot more than one data series on the secondary vertical axis, repeat this procedure for each data series that you want to display on the secondary vertical axis.

  1. In a chart, click the data series that you want to plot on a secondary vertical axis, or do the following to select the data series from a list of chart elements:

    • Click the chart.

      This displays the Chart Tools, adding the Design, Layout, and Format tabs.

    • On the Format tab, in the Current Selection group, click the arrow in the Chart Elements box, and then click the data series that you want to plot along a secondary vertical axis.

      enter image description here

  2. On the Format tab, in the Current Selection group, click Format Selection. The Format Data Series dialog box is displayed.

    Note: If a different dialog box is displayed, repeat step 1 and make sure that you select a data series in the chart.

  3. On the Series Options tab, under Plot Series On, click Secondary Axis and then click Close.

    A secondary vertical axis is displayed in the chart.

  4. To change the display of the secondary vertical axis, do the following:

    • On the Layout tab, in the Axes group, click Axes.

    • Click Secondary Vertical Axis, and then click the display option that you want.

  5. To change the axis options of the secondary vertical axis, do the following:

    • Right-click the secondary vertical axis, and then click Format Axis.

    • Under Axis Options, select the options that you want to use.

How to use JavaScript with Selenium WebDriver Java

Following code worked for me:

import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;

public class SomeClass {

    @Autowired
    private WebDriver driver;

     public void LogInSuperAdmin() {
        ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("console.log('Test test');");
     }
}

AngularJS Multiple ng-app within a page

In my case I had to wrap the bootstrapping of my second app in angular.element(document).ready for it to work:

angular.element(document).ready(function() {
  angular.bootstrap(document.getElementById("app2"), ["app2"]);
});   

Enum to String C++

You could throw the enum value and string into an STL map. Then you could use it like so.

   return myStringMap[Enum::Apple];

How to embed images in html email

I'm using this function that find all images in my letter and attaches it to the message.

Parameters: Takes your HTML (which you want to send);
Return: The necessary HTML and headers, which you can use in mail();

Example usage:

define("DEFCALLBACKMAIL", "[email protected]"); // WIll be shown as "from".
$final_msg = preparehtmlmail($html); // give a function your html*

mail('[email protected]', 'your subject', $final_msg['multipart'], $final_msg['headers']); 
// send email with all images from html attached to letter


function preparehtmlmail($html) {

  preg_match_all('~<img.*?src=.([\/.a-z0-9:_-]+).*?>~si',$html,$matches);
  $i = 0;
  $paths = array();

  foreach ($matches[1] as $img) {
    $img_old = $img;

    if(strpos($img, "http://") == false) {
      $uri = parse_url($img);
      $paths[$i]['path'] = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].$uri['path'];
      $content_id = md5($img);
      $html = str_replace($img_old,'cid:'.$content_id,$html);
      $paths[$i++]['cid'] = $content_id;
    }
  }

  $boundary = "--".md5(uniqid(time()));
  $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
  $headers .="Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$boundary\"\n";
  $headers .= "From: ".DEFCALLBACKMAIL."\r\n";
  $multipart = '';
  $multipart .= "--$boundary\n";
  $kod = 'utf-8';
  $multipart .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=$kod\n";
  $multipart .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quot-Printed\n\n";
  $multipart .= "$html\n\n";

  foreach ($paths as $path) {
    if(file_exists($path['path']))
      $fp = fopen($path['path'],"r");
      if (!$fp)  {
        return false;
      }

    $imagetype = substr(strrchr($path['path'], '.' ),1);
    $file = fread($fp, filesize($path['path']));
    fclose($fp);

    $message_part = "";

    switch ($imagetype) {
      case 'png':
      case 'PNG':
            $message_part .= "Content-Type: image/png";
            break;
      case 'jpg':
      case 'jpeg':
      case 'JPG':
      case 'JPEG':
            $message_part .= "Content-Type: image/jpeg";
            break;
      case 'gif':
      case 'GIF':
            $message_part .= "Content-Type: image/gif";
            break;
    }

    $message_part .= "; file_name = \"$path\"\n";
    $message_part .= 'Content-ID: <'.$path['cid'].">\n";
    $message_part .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
    $message_part .= "Content-Disposition: inline; filename = \"".basename($path['path'])."\"\n\n";
    $message_part .= chunk_split(base64_encode($file))."\n";
    $multipart .= "--$boundary\n".$message_part."\n";

  }

  $multipart .= "--$boundary--\n";
  return array('multipart' => $multipart, 'headers' => $headers);  
}

How do I fix the error "Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted"?

You are debugging two or more times. so the application may run more at a time. Then only this issue will occur. You should close all debugging applications using task-manager, Then debug again.

Access multiple elements of list knowing their index

Here's a simpler way:

a = [-2,1,5,3,8,5,6]
b = [1,2,5]
c = [e for i, e in enumerate(a) if i in b]

How to set caret(cursor) position in contenteditable element (div)?

  const el = document.getElementById("editable");
  el.focus()
  let char = 1, sel; // character at which to place caret

  if (document.selection) {
    sel = document.selection.createRange();
    sel.moveStart('character', char);
    sel.select();
  }
  else {
    sel = window.getSelection();
    sel.collapse(el.lastChild, char);
  }

How to get an object's property's value by property name?

Here is an alternative way to get an object's property value:

write-host $(get-something).SomeProp

How can I print out all possible letter combinations a given phone number can represent?

I rewrote the latest answer to this (referred above) , from C to Java. I also included the support for 0 and 1 (as 0 and 1) because numbers such as 555-5055 weren't working at all with the above code.

Here it is. Some comments are preserved.

public static void printPhoneWords(int[] number) {
    char[] output = new char[number.length];
    printWordsUtil(number,0,output);
}

static String[] phoneKeys= new String[]{"0", "1", "ABC", "DEF", "GHI", "JKL",
               "MNO", "PQRS", "TUV", "WXYZ"};
private static void printWordsUtil(int[] number, int curDigIndex, char[] output) {
    // Base case, if current output word is done
    if (curDigIndex == output.length) {
        System.out.print(String.valueOf(output) + " "); 
        return;
    }

      // Try all 3-4 possible characters for the current digit in number[]
      // and recurse for the remaining digits

    char curPhoneKey[] = phoneKeys[number[curDigIndex]].toCharArray();
    for (int i = 0; i< curPhoneKey.length ; i++) {
        output[curDigIndex] = curPhoneKey[i];
        printWordsUtil(number, curDigIndex+1, output);
        if (number[curDigIndex] <= 1) // for 0 or 1
            return;
    }
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    int number[] = {2, 3, 4};
    printPhoneWords(number);
    System.out.println();
}

How to pass an object from one activity to another on Android

Above answers almost all correct but for those who doesn't undestand those answers Android has powerfull class Intent with help of it you share data between not only activity but another components of Android (broadcasr receiver, servises for content provide we use ContetnResolver class no Intent). In your activity you build intent

Intent intent = new Intent(context,SomeActivity.class);
intent.putExtra("key",value);
startActivity(intent);

In your receving activity you have

public class SomeActivity extends AppCompactActivity {

    public void onCreate(...){
    ...
          SomeObject someObject = getIntent().getExtras().getParceable("key");
    }

}

You have to implement Parceable or Serializable interface on your object in order to share between activities. It is hard to implement Parcealbe rather than Serializable interface on object that's why android has plugin especially for this.Download it and use it

How to implement Enums in Ruby?

If you're worried about typos with symbols, make sure your code raises an exception when you access a value with a non-existent key. You can do this by using fetch rather than []:

my_value = my_hash.fetch(:key)

or by making the hash raise an exception by default if you supply a non-existent key:

my_hash = Hash.new do |hash, key|
  raise "You tried to access using #{key.inspect} when the only keys we have are #{hash.keys.inspect}"
end

If the hash already exists, you can add on exception-raising behaviour:

my_hash = Hash[[[1,2]]]
my_hash.default_proc = proc do |hash, key|
  raise "You tried to access using #{key.inspect} when the only keys we have are #{hash.keys.inspect}"
end

Normally, you don't have to worry about typo safety with constants. If you misspell a constant name, it'll usually raise an exception.

Detect when a window is resized using JavaScript ?

This can be achieved with the onresize property of the GlobalEventHandlers interface in JavaScript, by assigning a function to the onresize property, like so:

window.onresize = functionRef;

The following code snippet demonstrates this, by console logging the innerWidth and innerHeight of the window whenever it's resized. (The resize event fires after the window has been resized)

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  console.log("height: ", window.innerHeight, "px");_x000D_
  console.log("width: ", window.innerWidth, "px");_x000D_
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window.onresize = resize;
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<p>In order for this code snippet to work as intended, you will need to either shrink your browser window down to the size of this code snippet, or fullscreen this code snippet and resize from there.</p>
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How to find indices of all occurrences of one string in another in JavaScript?

Here is a simple code snippet:

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    var result = str.match(searchToken);
    if (result) {
        output.push(result.index +preIndex);
        str=str.substring(result.index+searchToken.length);
        getIndexOfSubStr(str, searchToken, preIndex, output)
    }
    return output;
}

var str = "my name is 'xyz' and my school name is 'xyz' and my area name is 'xyz' ";
var searchToken ="my";
var preIndex = 0;

console.log(getIndexOfSubStr(str, searchToken, preIndex, []));
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How to check if a key exists in Json Object and get its value

Use:

if (containerObject.has("video")) {
    //get value of video
}

Where can I find the assembly System.Web.Extensions dll?

I had this problem myself. Most of the information I could find online was related to people having this problem with an ASP.NET web application. I was creating a Win Forms stand alone app so most of the advice wasn't helpful for me.

Turns out that the problem was that my project was set to use the ".NET 4 Framework Client Profile" as the target framework and the System.Web.Extensions reference was not in the list for adding. I changed the target to ".NET 4 Framework" and then the reference was available by the normal methods.

Here is what worked for me step by step:

  1. Right Click you project Select Properties
  2. Change your Target Framework to ".NET Framework 4"
  3. Do whatever you need to do to save the changes and close the preferences tab
  4. Right click on the References item in your Solution Explorer
  5. Choose Add Reference...
  6. In the .NET tab, scroll down to System.Web.Extensions and add it.

Format numbers in JavaScript similar to C#

I made a simple function, maybe someone can use it

function secsToTime(secs){
  function format(number){
    if(number===0){
      return '00';
    }else {
      if (number < 10) {
          return '0' + number
      } else{
          return ''+number;
      }
    }
  }

  var minutes = Math.floor(secs/60)%60;
  var hours = Math.floor(secs/(60*60))%24;
  var days = Math.floor(secs/(60*60*24));
  var seconds = Math.floor(secs)%60;

  return (days>0? days+"d " : "")+format(hours)+':'+format(minutes)+':'+format(seconds);
}

this can generate the followings outputs:

  • 5d 02:53:39
  • 4d 22:15:16
  • 03:01:05
  • 00:00:00

Capitalize the first letter of both words in a two word string

There is a build-in base-R solution for title case as well:

tools::toTitleCase("demonstrating the title case")
## [1] "Demonstrating the Title Case"

or

library(tools)
toTitleCase("demonstrating the title case")
## [1] "Demonstrating the Title Case"

iterate through a map in javascript

The callback to $.each() is passed the property name and the value, in that order. You're therefore trying to iterate over the property names in the inner call to $.each(). I think you want:

$.each(myMap, function (i, val) {
  $.each(val, function(innerKey, innerValue) {
    // ...
  });
});

In the inner loop, given an object like your map, the values are arrays. That's OK, but note that the "innerKey" values will all be numbers.

edit — Now once that's straightened out, here's the next problem:

    setTimeout(function () {

      // ...

    }, i * 6000);

The first time through that loop, "i" will be the string "partnr1". Thus, that multiplication attempt will result in a NaN. You can keep an external counter to keep track of the property count of the outer map:

var pcount = 1;
$.each(myMap, function(i, val) {
  $.each(val, function(innerKey, innerValue) {
    setTimeout(function() {
      // ...
    }, pcount++ * 6000);
  });
});

How to upload a file using Java HttpClient library working with PHP

For those having a hard time implementing the accepted answer (which requires org.apache.http.entity.mime.MultipartEntity) you may be using org.apache.httpcomponents 4.2.* In this case, you have to explicitly install httpmime dependency, in my case:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
    <artifactId>httpmime</artifactId>
    <version>4.2.5</version>
</dependency>

Update style of a component onScroll in React.js

An example using classNames, React hooks useEffect, useState and styled-jsx:

import classNames from 'classnames'
import { useEffect, useState } from 'react'

const Header = _ => {
  const [ scrolled, setScrolled ] = useState()
  const classes = classNames('header', {
    scrolled: scrolled,
  })
  useEffect(_ => {
    const handleScroll = _ => { 
      if (window.pageYOffset > 1) {
        setScrolled(true)
      } else {
        setScrolled(false)
      }
    }
    window.addEventListener('scroll', handleScroll)
    return _ => {
      window.removeEventListener('scroll', handleScroll)
    }
  }, [])
  return (
    <header className={classes}>
      <h1>Your website</h1>
      <style jsx>{`
        .header {
          transition: background-color .2s;
        }
        .header.scrolled {
          background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, .1);
        }
      `}</style>
    </header>
  )
}
export default Header

shorthand c++ if else statement

try this:

bigInt.sign = number < 0 ? 0 : 1

Weird PHP error: 'Can't use function return value in write context'

The problem is in the () you have to go []

if (isset($_POST('sms_code') == TRUE)

by

if (isset($_POST['sms_code'] == TRUE)

ImportError: No module named xlsxwriter

I am not sure what caused this but it went all well once I changed the path name from Lib into lib and I was finally able to make it work.

How to add image in a TextView text?

This might Help You

  SpannableStringBuilder ssBuilder;

        ssBuilder = new SpannableStringBuilder(" ");
        // working code ImageSpan image = new ImageSpan(textView.getContext(), R.drawable.image);
        Drawable image = ContextCompat.getDrawable(textView.getContext(), R.drawable.image);
        float scale = textView.getContext().getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;
        int width = (int) (12 * scale + 0.5f);
        int height = (int) (18 * scale + 0.5f);
        image.setBounds(0, 0, width, height);
        ImageSpan imageSpan = new ImageSpan(image, ImageSpan.ALIGN_BASELINE);
        ssBuilder.setSpan(
                imageSpan, // Span to add
                0, // Start of the span (inclusive)
                1, // End of the span (exclusive)
                Spanned.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);// Do not extend the span when text add later

        ssBuilder.append(" " + text);
        ssBuilder = new SpannableStringBuilder(text);
        textView.setText(ssBuilder);

Transparent scrollbar with css

if you don't have any content with 100% width, you can set the background color of the track to the same color of the body's background

Cannot retrieve string(s) from preferences (settings)

All your exercise conditionals are separate and the else is only tied to the last if statement. Use else if to bind them all together in the way I believe you intend.

How to locate and insert a value in a text box (input) using Python Selenium?

Assuming your page is available under "http://example.com"

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://example.com")

Select element by id:

inputElement = driver.find_element_by_id("a1")
inputElement.send_keys('1')

Now you can simulate hitting ENTER:

inputElement.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

or if it is a form you can submit:

inputElement.submit() 

Dynamically generating a QR code with PHP

I have been using google qrcode api for sometime, but I didn't quite like this because it requires me to be on the Internet to access the generated image.

I did a little comand-line research and found out that linux has a command line tool qrencode for generating qr-codes.

I wrote this little script. And the good part is that the generated image is less than 1KB in size. Well the supplied data is simply a url.

$url = ($_SERVER['HTTPS'] ? "https://" : "http://").$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/profile.php?id='.$_GET['pid'];
$img = shell_exec('qrencode --output=- -m=1 '.escapeshellarg($url));

$imgData = "data:image/png;base64,".base64_encode($img);

Then in the html I load the image:

<img class="emrQRCode" src="<?=$imgData ?>" />

You just need to have installed it. [most imaging apps on linux would have installed it under the hood without you realizing.

How to do the Recursive SELECT query in MySQL?

Stored procedure is the best way to do it. Because Meherzad's solution would work only if the data follows the same order.

If we have a table structure like this

col1 | col2 | col3
-----+------+------
 3   | k    | 7
 5   | d    | 3
 1   | a    | 5
 6   | o    | 2
 2   | 0    | 8

It wont work. SQL Fiddle Demo

Here is a sample procedure code to achieve the same.

delimiter //
CREATE PROCEDURE chainReaction 
(
    in inputNo int
) 
BEGIN 
    declare final_id int default NULL;
    SELECT col3 
    INTO final_id 
    FROM table1
    WHERE col1 = inputNo;
    IF( final_id is not null) THEN
        INSERT INTO results(SELECT col1, col2, col3 FROM table1 WHERE col1 = inputNo);
        CALL chainReaction(final_id);   
    end if;
END//
delimiter ;

call chainReaction(1);
SELECT * FROM results;
DROP TABLE if exists results;

How do I change the text size in a label widget, python tkinter

Try passing width=200 as additional paramater when creating the Label.

This should work in creating label with specified width.

If you want to change it later, you can use:

label.config(width=200)

As you want to change the size of font itself you can try:

label.config(font=("Courier", 44))

How does internationalization work in JavaScript?

Some of it is native, the rest is available through libraries.

For example Datejs is a good international date library.

For the rest, it's just about language translation, and JavaScript is natively Unicode compatible (as well as all major browsers).

TCPDF Save file to folder?

$pdf->Output( "myfile.pdf", "F");

TCPDF ERROR: Unable to create output file: myfile.pdf

In the include/tcpdf_static.php file about 2435 line in the static function fopenLocal if I delete the complete 'if statement' it works fine.

public static function fopenLocal($filename, $mode) {
    /*if (strpos($filename, '://') === false) {
        $filename = 'file://'.$filename;
    } elseif (strpos($filename, 'file://') !== 0) {
        return false;
    }*/
    return fopen($filename, $mode);
}

Why is it bad style to `rescue Exception => e` in Ruby?

The real rule is: Don't throw away exceptions. The objectivity of the author of your quote is questionable, as evidenced by the fact that it ends with

or I will stab you

Of course, be aware that signals (by default) throw exceptions, and normally long-running processes are terminated through a signal, so catching Exception and not terminating on signal exceptions will make your program very hard to stop. So don't do this:

#! /usr/bin/ruby

while true do
  begin
    line = STDIN.gets
    # heavy processing
  rescue Exception => e
    puts "caught exception #{e}! ohnoes!"
  end
end

No, really, don't do it. Don't even run that to see if it works.

However, say you have a threaded server and you want all exceptions to not:

  1. be ignored (the default)
  2. stop the server (which happens if you say thread.abort_on_exception = true).

Then this is perfectly acceptable in your connection handling thread:

begin
  # do stuff
rescue Exception => e
  myLogger.error("uncaught #{e} exception while handling connection: #{e.message}")
    myLogger.error("Stack trace: #{backtrace.map {|l| "  #{l}\n"}.join}")
end

The above works out to a variation of Ruby's default exception handler, with the advantage that it doesn't also kill your program. Rails does this in its request handler.

Signal exceptions are raised in the main thread. Background threads won't get them, so there is no point in trying to catch them there.

This is particularly useful in a production environment, where you do not want your program to simply stop whenever something goes wrong. Then you can take the stack dumps in your logs and add to your code to deal with specific exception further down the call chain and in a more graceful manner.

Note also that there is another Ruby idiom which has much the same effect:

a = do_something rescue "something else"

In this line, if do_something raises an exception, it is caught by Ruby, thrown away, and a is assigned "something else".

Generally, don't do that, except in special cases where you know you don't need to worry. One example:

debugger rescue nil

The debugger function is a rather nice way to set a breakpoint in your code, but if running outside a debugger, and Rails, it raises an exception. Now theoretically you shouldn't be leaving debug code lying around in your program (pff! nobody does that!) but you might want to keep it there for a while for some reason, but not continually run your debugger.

Note:

  1. If you've run someone else's program that catches signal exceptions and ignores them, (say the code above) then:

    • in Linux, in a shell, type pgrep ruby, or ps | grep ruby, look for your offending program's PID, and then run kill -9 <PID>.
    • in Windows, use the Task Manager (CTRL-SHIFT-ESC), go to the "processes" tab, find your process, right click it and select "End process".
  2. If you are working with someone else's program which is, for whatever reason, peppered with these ignore-exception blocks, then putting this at the top of the mainline is one possible cop-out:

    %W/INT QUIT TERM/.each { |sig| trap sig,"SYSTEM_DEFAULT" }
    

    This causes the program to respond to the normal termination signals by immediately terminating, bypassing exception handlers, with no cleanup. So it could cause data loss or similar. Be careful!

  3. If you need to do this:

    begin
      do_something
    rescue Exception => e
      critical_cleanup
      raise
    end
    

    you can actually do this:

    begin
      do_something
    ensure
      critical_cleanup
    end
    

    In the second case, critical cleanup will be called every time, whether or not an exception is thrown.

JavaScript: how to change form action attribute value based on selection?

Simple and easy in javascipt

<script>

  document.getElementById("selectsearch").addEventListener("change", function(){

  var get_form =   document.getElementById("search-form") // get form 
  get_form.action =  '/search/' +  this.value; // assign value 

});

</script>

javascript if number greater than number

You should convert them to number before compare.

Try:

if (+x > +y) {
  //...
}

or

if (Number(x) > Number(y)) {
  // ...
}

Note: parseFloat and pareseInt(for compare integer, and you need to specify the radix) will give you NaN for an empty string, compare with NaN will always be false, If you don't want to treat empty string be 0, then you could use them.

PHP form - on submit stay on same page

In order to stay on the same page on submit you can leave action empty (action="") into the form tag, or leave it out altogether.

For the message, create a variable ($message = "Success! You entered: ".$input;") and then echo the variable at the place in the page where you want the message to appear with <?php echo $message; ?>.

Like this:

<?php
$message = "";
if(isset($_POST['SubmitButton'])){ //check if form was submitted
  $input = $_POST['inputText']; //get input text
  $message = "Success! You entered: ".$input;
}    
?>

<html>
<body>    
<form action="" method="post">
<?php echo $message; ?>
  <input type="text" name="inputText"/>
  <input type="submit" name="SubmitButton"/>
</form>    
</body>
</html>

Match whitespace but not newlines

What you are looking for is the POSIX blank character class. In Perl it is referenced as:

[[:blank:]]

in Java (don't forget to enable UNICODE_CHARACTER_CLASS):

\p{Blank}

Compared to the similar \h, POSIX blank is supported by a few more regex engines (reference). A major benefit is that its definition is fixed in Annex C: Compatibility Properties of Unicode Regular Expressions and standard across all regex flavors that support Unicode. (In Perl, for example, \h chooses to additionally include the MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR.) However, an argument in favor of \h is that it always detects Unicode characters (even if the engines don't agree on which), while POSIX character classes are often by default ASCII-only (as in Java).

But the problem is that even sticking to Unicode doesn't solve the issue 100%. Consider the following characters which are not considered whitespace in Unicode:

The aforementioned Mongolian vowel separator isn't included for what is probably a good reason. It, along with 200C and 200D, occur within words (AFAIK), and therefore breaks the cardinal rule that all other whitespace obeys: you can tokenize with it. They're more like modifiers. However, ZERO WIDTH SPACE, WORD JOINER, and ZERO WIDTH NON-BREAKING SPACE (if it used as other than a byte-order mark) fit the whitespace rule in my book. Therefore, I include them in my horizontal whitespace character class.

In Java:

static public final String HORIZONTAL_WHITESPACE = "[\\p{Blank}\\u200B\\u2060\\uFFEF]"

Inserting code in this LaTeX document with indentation

Minted, whether from GitHub or CTAN, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network, works in Overleaf, TeX Live and MiKTeX.

It requires the installation of the Python package Pygments; this is explained in the documentation in either source above. Although Pygments brands itself as a Python syntax highlighter, Minted guarantees the coverage of hundreds of other languages.

Example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{minted}
\begin{document}

\begin{minted}[mathescape, linenos]{python}

# Note: $\pi=\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{P_n}{d}$
title = "Hello World"

sum = 0
for i in range(10):
 sum += i

\end{minted}

\end{document}

Output:

enter image description here

ASP.NET MVC5/IIS Express unable to debug - Code Not Running

Go to project directory .vs/config/ and remove applicationhost.config . Then restart project.

Is there a JavaScript strcmp()?

var strcmp = new Intl.Collator(undefined, {numeric:true, sensitivity:'base'}).compare;

Usage: strcmp(string1, string2)

Result: 1 means string1 is bigger, 0 means equal, -1 means string2 is bigger.

This has higher performance than String.prototype.localeCompare

Also, numeric:true makes it do logical number comparison

How to display scroll bar onto a html table

You have to insert your <table> into a <div> that it has fixed size, and in <div> style you have to set overflow: scroll.

How do I import a .sql file in mysql database using PHP?

I Thing you can Try this Code, It's Run for my Case:

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$con = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'root', 'NOTSHOWN', 'test');_x000D_
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$filename = 'dbbackupmember.sql';_x000D_
$handle = fopen($filename, 'r+');_x000D_
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));_x000D_
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$sql = explode(";", $contents);_x000D_
foreach ($sql as $query) {_x000D_
 $result = mysqli_query($con, $query);_x000D_
 if ($result) {_x000D_
  echo "<tr><td><br></td></tr>";_x000D_
  echo "<tr><td>".$query."</td></tr>";_x000D_
  echo "<tr><td><br></td></tr>";_x000D_
 }_x000D_
}_x000D_
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fclose($handle);_x000D_
echo "success";_x000D_
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possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR

It is recommended to use autoreconf -fi instead of manually calling aclocal;autoconf;automake; #and whatever else to properly populate aclocal.m4 and so on.

Adding ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 (to the toplevel Makefile.am) and AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) is currently still optional if you do not use any own m4 files, but of course, doing it will silence the proocess :)

Using Python, how can I access a shared folder on windows network?

I had the same issue as OP but none of the current answers solved my issue so to add a slightly different answer that did work for me:

Running Python 3.6.5 on a Windows Machine, I used the format

r"\DriveName\then\file\path\txt.md"

so the combination of double backslashes from reading @Johnsyweb UNC link and adding the r in front as recommended solved my similar to OP's issue.

How do I write stderr to a file while using "tee" with a pipe?

In other words, you want to pipe stdout into one filter (tee bbb.out) and stderr into another filter (tee ccc.out). There is no standard way to pipe anything other than stdout into another command, but you can work around that by juggling file descriptors.

{ { ./aaa.sh | tee bbb.out; } 2>&1 1>&3 | tee ccc.out; } 3>&1 1>&2

See also How to grep standard error stream (stderr)? and When would you use an additional file descriptor?

In bash (and ksh and zsh), but not in other POSIX shells such as dash, you can use process substitution:

./aaa.sh > >(tee bbb.out) 2> >(tee ccc.out)

Beware that in bash, this command returns as soon as ./aaa.sh finishes, even if the tee commands are still executed (ksh and zsh do wait for the subprocesses). This may be a problem if you do something like ./aaa.sh > >(tee bbb.out) 2> >(tee ccc.out); process_logs bbb.out ccc.out. In that case, use file descriptor juggling or ksh/zsh instead.

How to retrieve data from a SQL Server database in C#?

    DataTable formerSlidesData = new DataTable();
    DformerSlidesData = searchAndFilterService.SearchSlideById(ids[i]);
                if (formerSlidesData.Rows.Count > 0)
                {
                    DataRow rowa = formerSlidesData.Rows[0];

                    cabinet = Convert.ToInt32(rowa["cabinet"]);
                    box = Convert.ToInt32(rowa["box"]);
                    drawer = Convert.ToInt32(rowa["drawer"]);
                }

When to use StringBuilder in Java

As a general rule, always use the more readable code and only refactor if performance is an issue. In this specific case, most recent JDK's will actually optimize the code into the StringBuilder version in any case.

You usually only really need to do it manually if you are doing string concatenation in a loop or in some complex code that the compiler can't easily optimize.

Python JSON encoding

The data you are encoding is a keyless array, so JSON encodes it with [] brackets. See www.json.org for more information about that. The curly braces are used for lists with key/value pairs.

From www.json.org:

JSON is built on two structures:

A collection of name/value pairs. In various languages, this is realized as an object, record, struct, dictionary, hash table, keyed list, or associative array. An ordered list of values. In most languages, this is realized as an array, vector, list, or sequence.

An object is an unordered set of name/value pairs. An object begins with { (left brace) and ends with } (right brace). Each name is followed by : (colon) and the name/value pairs are separated by , (comma).

An array is an ordered collection of values. An array begins with [ (left bracket) and ends with ] (right bracket). Values are separated by , (comma).

Is there a job scheduler library for node.js?

agenda is a Lightweight job scheduling for node. This will help you.

Why are there two ways to unstage a file in Git?

This thread is a bit old, but I still want to add a little demonstration since it is still not an intuitive problem:

me$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes to be committed:
#   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
#   new file:   to-be-added
#   modified:   to-be-modified
#   deleted:    to-be-removed
#

me$ git reset -q HEAD to-be-added

    # ok

me$ git reset -q HEAD to-be-modified

    # ok

me$ git reset -q HEAD to-be-removed

    # ok

# or alternatively:

me$ git reset -q HEAD to-be-added to-be-removed to-be-modified

    # ok

me$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes not staged for commit:
#   (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
#   modified:   to-be-modified
#   deleted:    to-be-removed
#
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#   to-be-added
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

git reset HEAD (without -q) gives a warning about the modified file and its exit code is 1 which will be considered as an error in a script.

Edit: git checkout HEAD to-be-modified to-be-removed also works for unstaging, but removes the change completely from the workspace

Update git 2.23.0: From time to time, the commands change. Now, git status says:

  (use "git restore --staged <file>..." to unstage)

... which works for all three types of change

git commit error: pathspec 'commit' did not match any file(s) known to git

I have encounter the same problem. my syntax has no problem. What I found is that I copied and pasted git commit -m "comments" from my note. I retype it, the command execute without issue. It turns out the - and " " are the problem when I copy paste to terminal.

Definition of "downstream" and "upstream"

Upstream (as related to) Tracking

The term upstream also has some unambiguous meaning as comes to the suite of GIT tools, especially relative to tracking

For example :

   $git rev-list --count --left-right "@{upstream}"...HEAD
   >4   12

will print (the last cached value of) the number of commits behind (left) and ahead (right) of your current working branch, relative to the (if any) currently tracking remote branch for this local branch. It will print an error message otherwise:

    >error: No upstream branch found for ''
  • As has already been said, you may have any number of remotes for one local repository, for example, if you fork a repository from github, then issue a 'pull request', you most certainly have at least two: origin (your forked repo on github) and upstream (the repo on github you forked from). Those are just interchangeable names, only the 'git@...' url identifies them.

Your .git/configreads :

   [remote "origin"]
       fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
       url = [email protected]:myusername/reponame.git
   [remote "upstream"]
       fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/upstream/*
       url = [email protected]:authorname/reponame.git
  • On the other hand, @{upstream}'s meaning for GIT is unique :

it is 'the branch' (if any) on 'said remote', which is tracking the 'current branch' on your 'local repository'.

It's the branch you fetch/pull from whenever you issue a plain git fetch/git pull, without arguments.

Let's say want to set the remote branch origin/master to be the tracking branch for the local master branch you've checked out. Just issue :

   $ git branch --set-upstream  master origin/master
   > Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin.

This adds 2 parameters in .git/config :

   [branch "master"]
       remote = origin
       merge = refs/heads/master

now try (provided 'upstream' remote has a 'dev' branch)

   $ git branch --set-upstream  master upstream/dev
   > Branch master set up to track remote branch dev from upstream.

.git/config now reads:

   [branch "master"]
       remote = upstream
       merge = refs/heads/dev

git-push(1) Manual Page :

   -u
   --set-upstream

For every branch that is up to date or successfully pushed, add upstream (tracking) reference, used by argument-less git-pull(1) and other commands. For more information, see branch.<name>.merge in git-config(1).

git-config(1) Manual Page :

   branch.<name>.merge

Defines, together with branch.<name>.remote, the upstream branch for the given branch. It tells git fetch/git pull/git rebase which branch to merge and can also affect git push (see push.default). \ (...)

   branch.<name>.remote

When in branch < name >, it tells git fetch and git push which remote to fetch from/push to. It defaults to origin if no remote is configured. origin is also used if you are not on any branch.

Upstream and Push (Gotcha)

take a look at git-config(1) Manual Page

   git config --global push.default upstream
   git config --global push.default tracking  (deprecated)

This is to prevent accidental pushes to branches which you’re not ready to push yet.

ORDER BY items must appear in the select list if SELECT DISTINCT is specified

While they are not the same thing, in one sense DISTINCT implies a GROUP BY, because every DISTINCT could be re-written using GROUP BY instead. With that in mind, it doesn't make sense to order by something that's not in the aggregate group.

For example, if you have a table like this:

col1  col2
----  ----
 1     1
 1     2
 2     1
 2     2
 2     3
 3     1

and then try to query it like this:

SELECT DISTINCT col1 FROM [table] WHERE col2 > 2 ORDER BY col1, col2

That would make no sense, because there could end up being multiple col2 values per row. Which one should it use for the order? Of course, in this query you know the results wouldn't be that way, but the database server can't know that in advance.

Now, your case is a little different. You included all the columns from the order by clause in the select clause, and therefore it would seem at first glance that they were all grouped. However, some of those columns were included in a calculated field. When you do that in combination with distinct, the distinct directive can only be applied to the final results of the calculation: it doesn't know anything about the source of the calculation any more.

This means the server doesn't really know it can count on those columns any more. It knows that they were used, but it doesn't know if the calculation operation might cause an effect similar to my first simple example above.

So now you need to do something else to tell the server that the columns are okay to use for ordering. There are several ways to do that, but this approach should work okay:

SELECT rsc.RadioServiceCodeId,
            rsc.RadioServiceCode + ' - ' + rsc.RadioService as RadioService
FROM sbi_l_radioservicecodes rsc
INNER JOIN sbi_l_radioservicecodegroups rscg 
    ON rsc.radioservicecodeid = rscg.radioservicecodeid
WHERE rscg.radioservicegroupid IN 
    (SELECT val FROM dbo.fnParseArray(@RadioServiceGroup,','))
    OR @RadioServiceGroup IS NULL  
GROUP BY rsc.RadioServiceCode,rsc.RadioServiceCodeId,rsc.RadioService
ORDER BY rsc.RadioServiceCode,rsc.RadioServiceCodeId,rsc.RadioService

for each loop in Objective-C for accessing NSMutable dictionary

The easiest way to enumerate a dictionary is

for (NSString *key in tDictionary.keyEnumerator) 
{
    //do something here;
}

where tDictionary is the NSDictionary or NSMutableDictionary you want to iterate.

Vim for Windows - What do I type to save and exit from a file?

  • Press i or a to get into insert mode, and type the message of choice

  • Press ESC several times to get out of insert mode, or any other mode you might have run into by accident

    • to save, :wq, :x or ZZ

    • to exit without saving, :q! or ZQ

To reload a file and undo all changes you have made...:

Press several times ESC and then enter :e!.

how to change background image of button when clicked/focused?

To change the button background we can follow 2 methods

  1. In the button OnClick, just add this code:

     public void onClick(View v) {
         if(v == buttonName) {
            buttonName.setBackgroundDrawable
             (getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.imageName_selected));
          }
    
           }
    

    2.Create button_background.xml in the drawable folder.(using xml)

    res -> drawable -> button_background.xml

       <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
        <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    
             <item android:state_selected="true"
                   android:drawable="@drawable/tabs_selected" /> <!-- selected-->
             <item android:state_pressed="true"
                   android:drawable="@drawable/tabs_selected" /> <!-- pressed-->
             <item  android:drawable="@drawable/tabs_selected"/>
        </selector>
    

    Now set the above file in button's background file.

         <Button
               android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
               android:layout_height="wrap_content"
               android:background="@drawable/button_background"/>
    
                              (or)
    
             Button tiny = (Button)findViewById(R.id.tiny);
                   tiny.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.abc);
    

    2nd method is better for setting the background fd button

How to assign execute permission to a .sh file in windows to be executed in linux

This is not possible. Linux permissions and windows permissions do not translate. They are machine specific. It would be a security hole to allow permissions to be set on files before they even arrive on the target system.

Search for "does-not-contain" on a DataFrame in pandas

I hope the answers are already posted

I am adding the framework to find multiple words and negate those from dataFrame.

Here 'word1','word2','word3','word4' = list of patterns to search

df = DataFrame

column_a = A column name from from DataFrame df

Search_for_These_values = ['word1','word2','word3','word4'] 

pattern = '|'.join(Search_for_These_values)

result = df.loc[~(df['column_a'].str.contains(pattern, case=False)]

how to list all sub directories in a directory

Easy as this:

string[] folders = System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(@"C:\My Sample Path\","*", System.IO.SearchOption.AllDirectories);

How to build PDF file from binary string returned from a web-service using javascript

I realize this is a rather old question, but here's the solution I came up with today:

doSomethingToRequestData().then(function(downloadedFile) {
  // create a download anchor tag
  var downloadLink      = document.createElement('a');
  downloadLink.target   = '_blank';
  downloadLink.download = 'name_to_give_saved_file.pdf';

  // convert downloaded data to a Blob
  var blob = new Blob([downloadedFile.data], { type: 'application/pdf' });

  // create an object URL from the Blob
  var URL = window.URL || window.webkitURL;
  var downloadUrl = URL.createObjectURL(blob);

  // set object URL as the anchor's href
  downloadLink.href = downloadUrl;

  // append the anchor to document body
  document.body.append(downloadLink);

  // fire a click event on the anchor
  downloadLink.click();

  // cleanup: remove element and revoke object URL
  document.body.removeChild(downloadLink);
  URL.revokeObjectURL(downloadUrl);
}

keycode 13 is for which key

Check an ASCII table.

It stands for CR, or Carriage Return, AKA the Return key.

Android Studio Emulator and "Process finished with exit code 0"

I had this problem and it took me nearly 2 days to resolve...

I had moved my SDK location, due to the system drive being full, and it seems that someone, somewhere at Android Studio central has hard-coded the path to the HaxM driver installer. As my HamX driver was out of date, the emulator wouldn't start.

Solution: navigate to [your sdk location]\extras\intel\Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager and run the intelhaxm-android.exe installer to update yourself to the latest driver.

C#: List All Classes in Assembly

Use Assembly.GetTypes. For example:

Assembly mscorlib = typeof(string).Assembly;
foreach (Type type in mscorlib.GetTypes())
{
    Console.WriteLine(type.FullName);
}

Get the position of a spinner in Android

    final int[] positions=new int[2]; 
    Spinner sp=findViewByID(R.id.spinner);

    sp.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {

        @Override
        public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1,
                int arg2, long arg3) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            Toast.makeText( arg2....);
        }

        @Override
        public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }
    });

Count number of occurrences for each unique value

If i am understanding your question, would this work? (you will have to replace with your actual column and table names)

SELECT time_col, COUNT(time_col) As Count
FROM time_table
GROUP BY time_col
WHERE activity_col = 3

Return multiple values from a function in swift

Update Swift 4.1

Here we create a struct to implement the Tuple usage and validate the OTP text length. That needs to be of 2 fields for this example.

struct ValidateOTP {
var code: String
var isValid: Bool }

func validateTheOTP() -> ValidateOTP {
    let otpCode = String(format: "%@%@", txtOtpField1.text!, txtOtpField2.text!)
    if otpCode.length < 2 {
        return ValidateOTP(code: otpCode, isValid: false)
    } else {
        return ValidateOTP(code: otpCode, isValid: true)
    }
}

Usage:

let isValidOTP = validateTheOTP()
    if isValidOTP.isValid { print(" valid OTP") } else {   self.alert(msg: "Please fill the valid OTP", buttons: ["Ok"], handler: nil)
    }

Hope it helps!

Thanks

How to check for empty array in vba macro

This code doesn't do what you expect:

If Dir(SigString) <> "" Then
    Signature = GetBoiler(SigString) 
Else
    Signature = "" 
End If

If you pass an empty string ("") or vbNullString to Dir, it will return the name of the first file in the current directory path (the path returned by CurDir$). So, if SigString is empty, your If condition will evaluate to True because Dir will return a non-empty string (the name of the first file in the current directory), and GetBoiler will be called. And if SigString is empty, the call to fso.GetFile will fail.

You should either change your condition to check that SigString isn't empty, or use the FileSystemObject.FileExists method instead of Dir for checking if the file exists. Dir is tricky to use precisely because it does things you might not expect it to do. Personally, I would use Scripting.FileSystemObject over Dir because there's no funny business (FileExists returns True if the file exists, and, well, False if it doesn't). What's more, FileExists expresses the intent of your code much clearly than Dir.

Method 1: Check that SigString is non-empty first

If SigString <> "" And Dir(SigString) <> "" Then
    Signature = GetBoiler(SigString) 
Else
    Signature = "" 
End If

Method 2: Use the FileSystemObject.FileExists method

Dim fso As Object
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

If fso.FileExists(SigString) Then
    Signature = GetBoiler(SigString) 
Else
    Signature = "" 
End If

PHP Pass by reference in foreach

Because on the second loop, $v is still a reference to the last array item, so it's overwritten each time.

You can see it like that:

$a = array ('zero','one','two', 'three');

foreach ($a as &$v) {

}

foreach ($a as $v) {
  echo $v.'-'.$a[3].PHP_EOL;
}

As you can see, the last array item takes the current loop value: 'zero', 'one', 'two', and then it's just 'two'... : )

How do I remove a substring from the end of a string in Python?

If you are sure that the string only appears at the end, then the simplest way would be to use 'replace':

url = 'abcdc.com'
print(url.replace('.com',''))

org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: sorry, too many clients already

You need to close all your connexions for example: If you make an INSERT INTO statement you need to close the statement and your connexion in this way:

statement.close();
Connexion.close():

And if you make a SELECT statement you need to close the statement, the connexion and the resultset in this way:

resultset.close();
statement.close();
Connexion.close();

I did this and it worked

How to set proxy for wget?

In my ubuntu, following lines in $HOME/.wgetrc did the trick!

http_proxy = http://uname:[email protected]:8080

use_proxy = on

List supported SSL/TLS versions for a specific OpenSSL build

It's clumsy, but you can get this from the usage messages for s_client or s_server, which are #ifed at compile time to match the supported protocol versions. Use something like

 openssl s_client -help 2>&1 | awk '/-ssl[0-9]|-tls[0-9]/{print $1}' 
 # in older releases any unknown -option will work; in 1.1.0 must be exactly -help

How to add number of days to today's date?

You could extend the javascript Date object like this

Date.prototype.addDays = function(days) {
    this.setDate(this.getDate() + parseInt(days));
    return this;
};

and in your javascript code you could call

var currentDate = new Date();
// to add 4 days to current date
currentDate.addDays(4);

How to loop and render elements in React.js without an array of objects to map?

I think this is the easiest way to loop in react js

<ul>
    {yourarray.map((item)=><li>{item}</li>)}
</ul>

Test method is inconclusive: Test wasn't run. Error?

I had the same problem.It was related to compatibility version between NUnit 3.5 and Resharper 9.2,since it was solved by downgrading from NUnit 3.5 to 2.6.4. It worked for me. good luck.

The connection to adb is down, and a severe error has occurred

I had a similar problem with adb.exe and Eclipse last time I updated ADT plugin. The solution was to run Eclipse as administrator and reinstall ADT.

Cookies on localhost with explicit domain

Another important detail, the expires= should use the following date time format: Wdy, DD-Mon-YYYY HH:MM:SS GMT (RFC6265 - Section 4.1.1).

Set-Cookie:
  name=value;
  domain=localhost;
  expires=Thu, 16-07-2019 21:25:05 GMT;
  path=/

Datatable select method ORDER BY clause

Use

datatable.select("col1='test'","col1 ASC")

Then before binding your data to the grid or repeater etc, use this

datatable.defaultview.sort()

That will solve your problem.

Android Studio marks R in red with error message "cannot resolve symbol R", but build succeeds

Just go to Android Top menu list. click on Build Menu, in under Build click on Rebuild Project.

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Iterate over the lines of a string

I suppose you could roll your own:

def parse(string):
    retval = ''
    for char in string:
        retval += char if not char == '\n' else ''
        if char == '\n':
            yield retval
            retval = ''
    if retval:
        yield retval

I'm not sure how efficient this implementation is, but that will only iterate over your string once.

Mmm, generators.

Edit:

Of course you'll also want to add in whatever type of parsing actions you want to take, but that's pretty simple.

Ruby on Rails: Where to define global constants?

Another option, if you want to define your constants in one place:

module DSL
  module Constants
    MY_CONSTANT = 1
  end
end

But still make them globally visible without having to access them in fully qualified way:

DSL::Constants::MY_CONSTANT # => 1
MY_CONSTANT # => NameError: uninitialized constant MY_CONSTANT
Object.instance_eval { include DSL::Constants }
MY_CONSTANT # => 1

Error parsing yaml file: mapping values are not allowed here

Another cause is wrong indentation which means trying to create the wrong objects. I've just fixed one in a Kubernetes Ingress definition:

Wrong

- path: / 
    backend: 
      serviceName: <service_name> 
      servicePort: <port> 

Correct

- path: /
  backend:
    serviceName: <service_name>
    servicePort: <port>

How to create correct JSONArray in Java using JSONObject

Here is some code using java 6 to get you started:

JSONObject jo = new JSONObject();
jo.put("firstName", "John");
jo.put("lastName", "Doe");

JSONArray ja = new JSONArray();
ja.put(jo);

JSONObject mainObj = new JSONObject();
mainObj.put("employees", ja);

Edit: Since there has been a lot of confusion about put vs add here I will attempt to explain the difference. In java 6 org.json.JSONArray contains the put method and in java 7 javax.json contains the add method.

An example of this using the builder pattern in java 7 looks something like this:

JsonObject jo = Json.createObjectBuilder()
  .add("employees", Json.createArrayBuilder()
    .add(Json.createObjectBuilder()
      .add("firstName", "John")
      .add("lastName", "Doe")))
  .build();

How to convert a Java String to an ASCII byte array?

Using the getBytes method, giving it the appropriate Charset (or Charset name).

Example:

String s = "Hello, there.";
byte[] b = s.getBytes(StandardCharsets.US_ASCII);

(Before Java 7: byte[] b = s.getBytes("US-ASCII");)

A python class that acts like dict

Check the documentation on emulating container types. In your case, the first parameter to add should be self.

How can I tell when HttpClient has timed out?

Basically, you need to catch the OperationCanceledException and check the state of the cancellation token that was passed to SendAsync (or GetAsync, or whatever HttpClient method you're using):

  • if it was canceled (IsCancellationRequested is true), it means the request really was canceled
  • if not, it means the request timed out

Of course, this isn't very convenient... it would be better to receive a TimeoutException in case of timeout. I propose a solution here based on a custom HTTP message handler: Better timeout handling with HttpClient

How to Create a Form Dynamically Via Javascript

some thing as follows ::

Add this After the body tag

This is a rough sketch, you will need to modify it according to your needs.

<script>
var f = document.createElement("form");
f.setAttribute('method',"post");
f.setAttribute('action',"submit.php");

var i = document.createElement("input"); //input element, text
i.setAttribute('type',"text");
i.setAttribute('name',"username");

var s = document.createElement("input"); //input element, Submit button
s.setAttribute('type',"submit");
s.setAttribute('value',"Submit");

f.appendChild(i);
f.appendChild(s);

//and some more input elements here
//and dont forget to add a submit button

document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(f);

</script>

Java generics: multiple generic parameters?

You can follow one of the below approaches:

1) Basic, single type :

//One type
public static <T> void fill(List <T> list, T val) {

    for(int i=0; i<list.size(); i++){
        list.set(i, val);
    }

}

2) Multiple Types :

// multiple types as parameters
public static <T1, T2> String multipleTypeArgument(T1 val1, T2 val2) {

    return val1+" "+val2;

}

3) Below will raise compiler error as 'T3 is not in the listing of generic types that are used in function declaration part.

//Raised compilation error
public static <T1, T2> T3 returnTypeGeneric(T1 val1, T2 val2) {
    return 0;
}

Correct : Compiles fine

public static <T1, T2, T3> T3 returnTypeGeneric(T1 val1, T2 val2) {
    return 0;
}

Sample Class Code :

package generics.basics;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class GenericMethods {

/*
 Declare the generic type parameter T in this method. 

 After the qualifiers public and static, you put <T> and 
 then followed it by return type, method name, and its parameters.

 Observe : type of val is 'T' and not '<T>'

 * */
//One type
public static <T> void fill(List <T> list, T val) {

    for(int i=0; i<list.size(); i++){
        list.set(i, val);
    }

}

// multiple types as parameters
public static <T1, T2> String multipleTypeArgument(T1 val1, T2 val2) {

    return val1+" "+val2;

}

/*// Q: To audience -> will this compile ? 
 * 
 * public static <T1, T2> T3 returnTypeGeneric(T1 val1, T2 val2) {

    return 0;

}*/

 public static <T1, T2, T3> T3 returnTypeGeneric(T1 val1, T2 val2) {

    return null;

}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<>();
    list.add(10);
    list.add(20);
    System.out.println(list.toString());
    fill(list, 100);
    System.out.println(list.toString());

    List<String> Strlist = new ArrayList<>();
    Strlist.add("Chirag");
    Strlist.add("Nayak");
    System.out.println(Strlist.toString());
    fill(Strlist, "GOOD BOY");
    System.out.println(Strlist.toString());


    System.out.println(multipleTypeArgument("Chirag", 100));
    System.out.println(multipleTypeArgument(100,"Nayak"));

}

}

// class definition ends

Sample Output:

[10, 20]
[100, 100]
[Chirag, Nayak]
[GOOD BOY, GOOD BOY]
Chirag 100
100 Nayak

how to check if a form is valid programmatically using jQuery Validation Plugin

For a group of inputs you can use an improved version based in @mikemaccana's answer

$.fn.isValid = function(){
    var validate = true;
    this.each(function(){
        if(this.checkValidity()==false){
            validate = false;
        }
    });
};

now you can use this to verify if the form is valid:

if(!$(".form-control").isValid){
    return;
}

You could use the same technique to get all the error messages:

$.fn.getVelidationMessage = function(){
    var message = "";
    var name = "";
    this.each(function(){
        if(this.checkValidity()==false){
            name = ($( "label[for=" + this.id + "] ").html() || this.placeholder || this.name || this.id);
            message = message + name +":"+ (this.validationMessage || 'Invalid value.')+"\n<br>";
        }
    })
    return message;
}

AngularJS $http, CORS and http authentication

No you don't have to put credentials, You have to put headers on client side eg:

 $http({
        url: 'url of service',
        method: "POST",
        data: {test :  name },
        withCredentials: true,
        headers: {
                    'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8'
        }
    });

And and on server side you have to put headers to this is example for nodejs:

/**
 * On all requests add headers
 */
app.all('*', function(req, res,next) {


    /**
     * Response settings
     * @type {Object}
     */
    var responseSettings = {
        "AccessControlAllowOrigin": req.headers.origin,
        "AccessControlAllowHeaders": "Content-Type,X-CSRF-Token, X-Requested-With, Accept, Accept-Version, Content-Length, Content-MD5,  Date, X-Api-Version, X-File-Name",
        "AccessControlAllowMethods": "POST, GET, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS",
        "AccessControlAllowCredentials": true
    };

    /**
     * Headers
     */
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Credentials", responseSettings.AccessControlAllowCredentials);
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin",  responseSettings.AccessControlAllowOrigin);
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", (req.headers['access-control-request-headers']) ? req.headers['access-control-request-headers'] : "x-requested-with");
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", (req.headers['access-control-request-method']) ? req.headers['access-control-request-method'] : responseSettings.AccessControlAllowMethods);

    if ('OPTIONS' == req.method) {
        res.send(200);
    }
    else {
        next();
    }


});

Using iText to convert HTML to PDF

The easiest way of doing this is using pdfHTML. It's an iText7 add-on that converts HTML5 (+CSS3) into pdf syntax.

The code is pretty straightforward:

    HtmlConverter.convertToPdf(
        "<b>This text should be written in bold.</b>",       // html to be converted
        new PdfWriter(
            new File("C://users/mark/documents/output.pdf")  // destination file
        )
    );

To learn more, go to http://itextpdf.com/itext7/pdfHTML

Avoid printStackTrace(); use a logger call instead

A production quality program should use one of the many logging alternatives (e.g. log4j, logback, java.util.logging) to report errors and other diagnostics. This has a number of advantages:

  • Log messages go to a configurable location.
  • The end user doesn't see the messages unless you configure the logging so that he/she does.
  • You can use different loggers and logging levels, etc to control how much little or much logging is recorded.
  • You can use different appender formats to control what the logging looks like.
  • You can easily plug the logging output into a larger monitoring / logging framework.
  • All of the above can be done without changing your code; i.e. by editing the deployed application's logging config file.

By contrast, if you just use printStackTrace, the deployer / end user has little if any control, and logging messages are liable to either be lost or shown to the end user in inappropriate circumstances. (And nothing terrifies a timid user more than a random stack trace.)

Run a shell script with an html button

PHP is likely the easiest.

Just make a file script.php that contains <?php shell_exec("yourscript.sh"); ?> and send anybody who clicks the button to that destination. You can return the user to the original page with header:

<?php
shell_exec("yourscript.sh");
header('Location: http://www.website.com/page?success=true');
?>

Reference: http://php.net/manual/en/function.shell-exec.php

Proper use of const for defining functions in JavaScript

There's no problem with what you've done, but you must remember the difference between function declarations and function expressions.

A function declaration, that is:

function doSomething () {}

Is hoisted entirely to the top of the scope (and like let and const they are block scoped as well).

This means that the following will work:

doSomething() // works!
function doSomething() {}

A function expression, that is:

[const | let | var] = function () {} (or () =>

Is the creation of an anonymous function (function () {}) and the creation of a variable, and then the assignment of that anonymous function to that variable.

So the usual rules around variable hoisting within a scope -- block-scoped variables (let and const) do not hoist as undefined to the top of their block scope.

This means:

if (true) {
    doSomething() // will fail
    const doSomething = function () {}
}

Will fail since doSomething is not defined. (It will throw a ReferenceError)

If you switch to using var you get your hoisting of the variable, but it will be initialized to undefined so that block of code above will still not work. (This will throw a TypeError since doSomething is not a function at the time you call it)

As far as standard practices go, you should always use the proper tool for the job.

Axel Rauschmayer has a great post on scope and hoisting including es6 semantics: Variables and Scoping in ES6

SQL Query - SUM(CASE WHEN x THEN 1 ELSE 0) for multiple columns

I would change the query in the following ways:

  1. Do the aggregation in subqueries. This can take advantage of more information about the table for optimizing the group by.
  2. Combine the second and third subqueries. They are aggregating on the same column. This requires using a left outer join to ensure that all data is available.
  3. By using count(<fieldname>) you can eliminate the comparisons to is null. This is important for the second and third calculated values.
  4. To combine the second and third queries, it needs to count an id from the mde table. These use mde.mdeid.

The following version follows your example by using union all:

SELECT CAST(Detail.ReceiptDate AS DATE) AS "Date",
       SUM(TOTALMAILED) as TotalMailed,
       SUM(TOTALUNDELINOTICESRECEIVED) as TOTALUNDELINOTICESRECEIVED,
       SUM(TRACEUNDELNOTICESRECEIVED) as TRACEUNDELNOTICESRECEIVED
FROM ((select SentDate AS "ReceiptDate", COUNT(*) as TotalMailed,
              NULL as TOTALUNDELINOTICESRECEIVED, NULL as TRACEUNDELNOTICESRECEIVED
       from MailDataExtract
       where SentDate is not null
       group by SentDate
      ) union all
      (select MDE.ReturnMailDate AS ReceiptDate, 0,
              COUNT(distinct mde.mdeid) as TOTALUNDELINOTICESRECEIVED,
              SUM(case when sd.ReturnMailTypeId = 1 then 1 else 0 end) as TRACEUNDELNOTICESRECEIVED
       from MailDataExtract MDE left outer join
            DTSharedData.dbo.ScanData SD
            ON SD.ScanDataID = MDE.ReturnScanDataID
       group by MDE.ReturnMailDate;
      )
     ) detail
GROUP BY CAST(Detail.ReceiptDate AS DATE)
ORDER BY 1;

The following does something similar using full outer join:

SELECT coalesce(sd.ReceiptDate, mde.ReceiptDate) AS "Date",
       sd.TotalMailed, mde.TOTALUNDELINOTICESRECEIVED,
       mde.TRACEUNDELNOTICESRECEIVED
FROM (select cast(SentDate as date) AS "ReceiptDate", COUNT(*) as TotalMailed
      from MailDataExtract
      where SentDate is not null
      group by cast(SentDate as date)
     ) sd full outer join
    (select cast(MDE.ReturnMailDate as date) AS ReceiptDate,
            COUNT(distinct mde.mdeID) as TOTALUNDELINOTICESRECEIVED,
            SUM(case when sd.ReturnMailTypeId = 1 then 1 else 0 end) as TRACEUNDELNOTICESRECEIVED
     from MailDataExtract MDE left outer join
          DTSharedData.dbo.ScanData SD
          ON SD.ScanDataID = MDE.ReturnScanDataID
     group by cast(MDE.ReturnMailDate as date)
    ) mde
    on sd.ReceiptDate = mde.ReceiptDate
ORDER BY 1;

Using bind variables with dynamic SELECT INTO clause in PL/SQL

Select Into functionality only works for PL/SQL Block, when you use Execute immediate , oracle interprets v_query_str as a SQL Query string so you can not use into .will get keyword missing Exception. in example 2 ,we are using begin end; so it became pl/sql block and its legal.

Is it possible to program iPhone in C++

First off, saying Objective-C is "insane" is humorous- I have the Bjarne Stroustrup C++ book sitting by my side which clocks in at 1020 pages. Apple's PDF on Objective-C is 141.

If you want to use UIKit it will be very, very difficult for you to do anything in C++. Any serious iPhone app that conforms to Apple's UI will need it's UI portions to be written in Objective-C. Only if you're writing an OpenGL game can you stick almost entirely to C/C++.

AngularJS ng-click stopPropagation

In case that you're using a directive like me this is how it works when you need the two data way binding for example after updating an attribute in any model or collection:

angular.module('yourApp').directive('setSurveyInEditionMode', setSurveyInEditionMode)

function setSurveyInEditionMode() {
  return {
    restrict: 'A',
    link: function(scope, element, $attributes) {
      element.on('click', function(event){
        event.stopPropagation();
        // In order to work with stopPropagation and two data way binding
        // if you don't use scope.$apply in my case the model is not updated in the view when I click on the element that has my directive
        scope.$apply(function () {
          scope.mySurvey.inEditionMode = true;
          console.log('inside the directive')
        });
      });
    }
  }
}

Now, you can easily use it in any button, link, div, etc. like so:

<button set-survey-in-edition-mode >Edit survey</button>

Android: Quit application when press back button

In my understanding Google wants Android to handle memory management and shutting down the apps. If you must exit the app from code, it might be beneficial to ask Android to run garbage collector.

@Override
public void onBackPressed(){
    System.gc();
    System.exit(0);
}

You can also add finish() to the code, but it is probably redundant, if you also do System.exit(0)

libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile

Libpng-1.6 is more stringent about checking ICC profiles than previous versions. You can ignore the warning. To get rid of it, remove the iCCP chunk from the PNG image.

Some applications treat warnings as errors; if you are using such an application you do have to remove the chunk. You can do that with any of a variety of PNG editors such as ImageMagick's

convert in.png out.png

To remove the invalid iCCP chunk from all of the PNG files in a folder (directory), you can use mogrify from ImageMagick:

mogrify *.png

This requires that your ImageMagick was built with libpng16. You can easily check it by running:

convert -list format | grep PNG

If you'd like to find out which files need to be fixed instead of blindly processing all of them, you can run

pngcrush -n -q *.png

where the -n means don't rewrite the files and -q means suppress most of the output except for warnings. Sorry, there's no option yet in pngcrush to suppress everything but the warnings.


Binary Releases of ImageMagick are here


For Android Projects (Android Studio) navigate into res folder.

For example:

C:\{your_project_folder}\app\src\main\res\drawable-hdpi\mogrify *.png

writing a batch file that opens a chrome URL

It's very simple. Just try:

start chrome https://www.google.co.in/

it will open the Google page in the Chrome browser.

If you wish to open the page in Firefox, try:

start firefox https://www.google.co.in/

Have Fun!

Python, Unicode, and the Windows console

For Python 2 try:

print unicode(string, 'unicode-escape')

For Python 3 try:

import os
string = "002 Could've Would've Should've"
os.system('echo ' + string)

Or try win-unicode-console:

pip install win-unicode-console
py -mrun your_script.py

Symfony 2 EntityManager injection in service

For modern reference, in Symfony 2.4+, you cannot name the arguments for the Constructor Injection method anymore. According to the documentation You would pass in:

services:
    test.common.userservice:
        class:  Test\CommonBundle\Services\UserService
        arguments: [ "@doctrine.orm.entity_manager" ]

And then they would be available in the order they were listed via the arguments (if there are more than 1).

public function __construct(EntityManager $entityManager) {
    $this->em = $entityManager;
}

Infinite Recursion with Jackson JSON and Hibernate JPA issue

In my case it was enough to change relation from:

@OneToMany(mappedBy = "county")
private List<Town> towns;

to:

@OneToMany
private List<Town> towns;

another relation stayed as it was:

@ManyToOne
@JoinColumn(name = "county_id")
private County county;

Use formula in custom calculated field in Pivot Table

Some of it is possible, specifically accessing subtotals:

"In Excel 2010+, you can right-click on the values and select Show Values As –> % of Parent Row Total." (or % of Parent Column Total)

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  • And make sure the field in question is a number field that can be summed, it does not work for text fields for which only count is normally informative.

Source: http://datapigtechnologies.com/blog/index.php/excel-2010-pivottable-subtotals/

Python - Using regex to find multiple matches and print them out

Using regexes for this purpose is the wrong approach. Since you are using python you have a really awesome library available to extract parts from HTML documents: BeautifulSoup.

SELECT INTO Variable in MySQL DECLARE causes syntax error?

Per the MySQL docs DECLARE works only at the start of a BEGIN...END block as in a stored program.

Polling the keyboard (detect a keypress) in python

Ok, since my attempt to post my solution in a comment failed, here's what I was trying to say. I could do exactly what I wanted from native Python (on Windows, not anywhere else though) with the following code:

import msvcrt 

def kbfunc(): 
   x = msvcrt.kbhit()
   if x: 
      ret = ord(msvcrt.getch()) 
   else: 
      ret = 0 
   return ret

Floating Point Exception C++ Why and what is it?

Problem is in the for loop in the code snippet:
for (i > 0; i--;)

Here, your intention seems to be entering the loop if (i > 0) and decrement the value of i by one after the completion of for loop.

Does it work like that? lets see.

Look at the for() loop syntax:

**for ( initialization; condition check; increment/decrement ) {  
    statements;  
}**

Initialization gets executed only once in the beginning of the loop. Pay close attention to ";" in your code snippet and map it with for loop syntax.

Initialization : i > 0 : Gets executed only once. Doesn't have any impact in your code.

Condition check : i -- : post decrement.

              Here, i is used for condition check and then it is decremented. 
              Decremented value will be used in statements within for loop. 
              This condition check is working as increment/decrement too in your code. 

Lets stop here and see floating point exception.

what is it? One easy example is Divide by 0. Same is happening with your code.

When i reaches 1 in condition check, condition check validates to be true.
Because of post decrement i will be 0 when it enters for loop.

Modulo operation at line #9 results in divide by zero operation.  

With this background you should be able to fix the problem in for loop.

Read text file into string. C++ ifstream

getline(fin, buffer, '\n')
where fin is opened file(ifstream object) and buffer is of string/char type where you want to copy line.

How do I create a nice-looking DMG for Mac OS X using command-line tools?

I finally got this working in my own project (which happens to be in Xcode). Adding these 3 scripts to your build phase will automatically create a Disk Image for your product that is nice and neat. All you have to do is build your project and the DMG will be waiting in your products folder.

Script 1 (Create Temp Disk Image):

#!/bin/bash
#Create a R/W DMG

dir="$TEMP_FILES_DIR/disk"
dmg="$BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.temp.dmg"

rm -rf "$dir"
mkdir "$dir"
cp -R "$BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.app" "$dir"
ln -s "/Applications" "$dir/Applications"
mkdir "$dir/.background"
cp "$PROJECT_DIR/$PROJECT_NAME/some_image.png" "$dir/.background"
rm -f "$dmg"
hdiutil create "$dmg" -srcfolder "$dir" -volname "$PRODUCT_NAME" -format UDRW

#Mount the disk image, and store the device name
hdiutil attach "$dmg" -noverify -noautoopen -readwrite

Script 2 (Set Window Properties Script):

#!/usr/bin/osascript
#get the dimensions of the main window using a bash script

set {width, height, scale} to words of (do shell script "system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType | awk '/Main Display: Yes/{found=1} /Resolution/{width=$2; height=$4} /Retina/{scale=($2 == \"Yes\" ? 2 : 1)} /^ {8}[^ ]+/{if(found) {exit}; scale=1} END{printf \"%d %d %d\\n\", width, height, scale}'")
set x to ((width / 2) / scale)
set y to ((height / 2) / scale)

#get the product name using a bash script
set {product_name} to words of (do shell script "printf \"%s\", $PRODUCT_NAME")
set background to alias ("Volumes:"&product_name&":.background:some_image.png")

tell application "Finder"
    tell disk product_name
        open
        set current view of container window to icon view
        set toolbar visible of container window to false
        set statusbar visible of container window to false
        set the bounds of container window to {x, y, (x + 479), (y + 383)}
        set theViewOptions to the icon view options of container window
        set arrangement of theViewOptions to not arranged
        set icon size of theViewOptions to 128
        set background picture of theViewOptions to background
        set position of item (product_name & ".app") of container window to {100, 225}
        set position of item "Applications" of container window to {375, 225}
        update without registering applications
        close
    end tell
end tell

The above measurement for the window work for my project specifically due to the size of my background pic and icon resolution; you may need to modify these values for your own project.

Script 3 (Make Final Disk Image Script):

#!/bin/bash
dir="$TEMP_FILES_DIR/disk"
cp "$PROJECT_DIR/$PROJECT_NAME/some_other_image.png" "$dir/"

#unmount the temp image file, then convert it to final image file
sync
sync
hdiutil detach /Volumes/$PRODUCT_NAME
rm -f "$BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.dmg"
hdiutil convert "$BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.temp.dmg" -format UDZO -imagekey zlib-level=9 -o "$BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.dmg"
rm -f "$BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.temp.dmg"

#Change the icon of the image file
sips -i "$dir/some_other_image.png"
DeRez -only icns "$dir/some_other_image.png" > "$dir/tmpicns.rsrc"
Rez -append "$dir/tmpicns.rsrc" -o "$BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.dmg"
SetFile -a C "$BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR/$PRODUCT_NAME.dmg"

rm -rf "$dir"

Make sure the image files you are using are in the $PROJECT_DIR/$PROJECT_NAME/ directory!

Razor MVC Populating Javascript array with Model Array

I was integrating a slider and needed to get all the files in the folder and was having same situationof C# array to javascript array.This solution by @heymega worked perfectly except my javascript parser was annoyed on var use in foreach loop. So i did a little work around avoiding the loop.

var allowedExtensions = new string[] { ".jpg", ".jpeg", ".bmp", ".png", ".gif" };

var bannerImages = string.Join(",", Directory.GetFiles(Path.Combine(System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.ApplicationPhysicalPath, "Images", "banners"), "*.*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly)
    .Where(d => allowedExtensions.Contains(Path.GetExtension(d).ToLower()))
    .Select(d => string.Format("'{0}'", Path.GetFileName(d)))
    .ToArray());

And the javascript code is

var imagesArray = new Array(@Html.Raw(bannerImages));

Hope it helps

Execute another jar in a Java program

Hope this helps:

public class JarExecutor {

private BufferedReader error;
private BufferedReader op;
private int exitVal;

public void executeJar(String jarFilePath, List<String> args) throws JarExecutorException {
    // Create run arguments for the

    final List<String> actualArgs = new ArrayList<String>();
    actualArgs.add(0, "java");
    actualArgs.add(1, "-jar");
    actualArgs.add(2, jarFilePath);
    actualArgs.addAll(args);
    try {
        final Runtime re = Runtime.getRuntime();
        //final Process command = re.exec(cmdString, args.toArray(new String[0]));
        final Process command = re.exec(actualArgs.toArray(new String[0]));
        this.error = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(command.getErrorStream()));
        this.op = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(command.getInputStream()));
        // Wait for the application to Finish
        command.waitFor();
        this.exitVal = command.exitValue();
        if (this.exitVal != 0) {
            throw new IOException("Failed to execure jar, " + this.getExecutionLog());
        }

    } catch (final IOException | InterruptedException e) {
        throw new JarExecutorException(e);
    }
}

public String getExecutionLog() {
    String error = "";
    String line;
    try {
        while((line = this.error.readLine()) != null) {
            error = error + "\n" + line;
        }
    } catch (final IOException e) {
    }
    String output = "";
    try {
        while((line = this.op.readLine()) != null) {
            output = output + "\n" + line;
        }
    } catch (final IOException e) {
    }
    try {
        this.error.close();
        this.op.close();
    } catch (final IOException e) {
    }
    return "exitVal: " + this.exitVal + ", error: " + error + ", output: " + output;
}
}

File to import not found or unreadable: compass

Compass adjusts the way partials are imported. It allows importing components based solely on their name, without specifying the path.

Before you can do @import 'compass';, you should:

Install Compass as a Ruby gem:

gem install compass

After that, you should use Compass's own command line tool to compile your SASS code:

cd path/to/your/project/
compass compile

Note that Compass reqiures a configuration file called config.rb. You should create it for Compass to work.

The minimal config.rb can be as simple as this:

css_dir =   "css"
sass_dir =  "sass"

And your SASS code should reside in sass/.

Instead of creating a configuration file manually, you can create an empty Compass project with compass create <project-name> and then copy your SASS code inside it.

Note that if you want to use Compass extensions, you will have to:

  1. require them from the config.rb;
  2. import them from your SASS file.

More info here: http://compass-style.org/help/

How to use C++ in Go

You're walking on uncharted territory here. Here is the Go example for calling C code, perhaps you can do something like that after reading up on C++ name mangling and calling conventions, and lots of trial and error.

If you still feel like trying it, good luck.

Press any key to continue

Check out the ReadKey() method on the System.Console .NET class. I think that will do what you're looking for.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.console.readkey(v=vs.110).aspx

Example:

Write-Host -Object ('The key that was pressed was: {0}' -f [System.Console]::ReadKey().Key.ToString());

Loading a properties file from Java package

Assuming your using the Properties class, via its load method, and I guess you are using the ClassLoader getResourceAsStream to get the input stream.

How are you passing in the name, it seems it should be in this form: /com/al/common/email/templates/foo.properties

Block direct access to a file over http but allow php script access

To prevent .ini files from web access put the following into apache2.conf

<Files ~ "\.ini$">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>

How to prevent a double-click using jQuery?

I found that most solutions didn't work with clicks on elements like Labels or DIV's (eg. when using Kendo controls). So I made this simple solution:

function isDoubleClicked(element) {
    //if already clicked return TRUE to indicate this click is not allowed
    if (element.data("isclicked")) return true;

    //mark as clicked for 1 second
    element.data("isclicked", true);
    setTimeout(function () {
        element.removeData("isclicked");
    }, 1000);

    //return FALSE to indicate this click was allowed
    return false;
}

Use it on the place where you have to decide to start an event or not:

$('#button').on("click", function () {
    if (isDoubleClicked($(this))) return;

    ..continue...
});

MySQL CREATE FUNCTION Syntax

MySQL create function syntax:

DELIMITER //

CREATE FUNCTION GETFULLNAME(fname CHAR(250),lname CHAR(250))
    RETURNS CHAR(250)
    BEGIN
        DECLARE fullname CHAR(250);
        SET fullname=CONCAT(fname,' ',lname);
        RETURN fullname;
    END //

DELIMITER ;

Use This Function In Your Query

SELECT a.*,GETFULLNAME(a.fname,a.lname) FROM namedbtbl as a


SELECT GETFULLNAME("Biswarup","Adhikari") as myname;

Watch this Video how to create mysql function and how to use in your query

Create Mysql Function Video Tutorial

Angular-cli from css to scss

A quick and easy way to perform the migration is to use the schematic NPM package schematics-scss-migrate. this package rename all css to scss file :

ng add schematics-scss-migrate

https://github.com/Teebo/scss-migrate#readme

How to switch between python 2.7 to python 3 from command line?

They are 3 ways you can achieve this using the py command (py-launcher) in python 3, virtual environment or configuring your default python system path. For illustration purpose, you may see tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynDlb0n27cw&t=38s

Android Studio build fails with "Task '' not found in root project 'MyProject'."

This happened to me recently when I close one Android Studio project and imported another Eclipse project. It seemed to be some bug in Android Studio where it preserves some gradle settings from previously open project and then get confused in the new project.

The solution was extremely simple: Close the project and shut down Android Studio completely, before re-opening it and then import/open the new project. Everything goes smoothly from then on.

Defining private module functions in python

In Python, "privacy" depends on "consenting adults'" levels of agreement - you can't force it (any more than you can in real life;-). A single leading underscore means you're not supposed to access it "from the outside" -- two leading underscores (w/o trailing underscores) carry the message even more forcefully... but, in the end, it still depends on social convention and consensus: Python's introspection is forceful enough that you can't handcuff every other programmer in the world to respect your wishes.

((Btw, though it's a closely held secret, much the same holds for C++: with most compilers, a simple #define private public line before #includeing your .h file is all it takes for wily coders to make hash of your "privacy"...!-))

CakePHP 3.0 installation: intl extension missing from system

MAKE this

In XAMPP, intl extension is included but you have to uncomment extension=php_intl.dll in php.ini and restart the server through the XAMPP Control Panel. In WAMP, the intl extension is “activated” by default but not working. To make it work you have to go to php folder (by default) C:\wamp\bin\php\php{version}, copy all the files that looks like icu*.dll and paste them into the apache bin directory C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache{version}\bin. Then restart all services and it should be OK.

if you use XAMPP do this 1. turn off XAMPP 2. Modifed the php.ini is located in c/:xampp/php/php.ini 3. intl extension is included but you have to uncomment extension=php_intl.dll in php.ini and restart the server through the XAMPP Control Panel.

Visual Studio 2017 errors on standard headers

If the problem is not solved by above answer, check whether the Windows SDK version is 10.0.15063.0.

Project -> Properties -> General -> Windows SDK Version -> select 10.0.15063.0

After this rebuild the solution.  

How to build & install GLFW 3 and use it in a Linux project

this solved it to me:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libglfw3
sudo apt-get install libglfw3-dev

taken from https://github.com/glfw/glfw/issues/808

What is difference between cacerts and keystore?

Cacerts are details of trusted signing authorities who can issue certs. This what most of the browsers have due to which certs determined to be authentic. Keystone has your service related certs to authenticate clients.

for each inside a for each - Java

for (Tweet : tweets){ ...

should really be

for(Tweet tweet: tweets){...

Upgrade python without breaking yum

Put /opt/python2.7/bin in your PATH environment variable in front of /usr/bin...or just get used to typing python2.7.

How to get the size of a varchar[n] field in one SQL statement?

This will work on SQL SERVER...

SELECT COL_LENGTH('Table', 'Column')

How to save MySQL query output to excel or .txt file?

You can write following codes to achieve this task:

SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE ... 
INTO OUTFILE 'textfile.csv'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|'

It export the result to CSV and then export it to excel sheet.

Usages of doThrow() doAnswer() doNothing() and doReturn() in mockito

It depends on the kind of test double you want to interact with:

  • If you don't use doNothing and you mock an object, the real method is not called
  • If you don't use doNothing and you spy an object, the real method is called

In other words, with mocking the only useful interactions with a collaborator are the ones that you provide. By default functions will return null, void methods do nothing.

One liner for If string is not null or empty else

Old question, but thought I'd add this to help out,

#if DOTNET35
bool isTrulyEmpty = String.IsNullOrEmpty(s) || s.Trim().Length == 0;
#else
bool isTrulyEmpty = String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(s) ;
#endif

How to split data into trainset and testset randomly?

This can be done similarly in Python using lists, (note that the whole list is shuffled in place).

import random

with open("datafile.txt", "rb") as f:
    data = f.read().split('\n')

random.shuffle(data)

train_data = data[:50]
test_data = data[50:]

Tools to search for strings inside files without indexing

Original Answer

Windows Grep does this really well.

Edit: Windows Grep is no longer being maintained or made available by the developer. An alternate download link is here: Windows Grep - alternate

Current Answer

Visual Studio Code has excellent search and replace capabilities across files. It is extremely fast, supports regex and live preview before replacement.

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Simulator or Emulator? What is the difference?

A simulation is a system that behaves similar to something else, but is implemented in an entirely different way. It provides the basic behavior of a system but may not necessarily abide by all of the rules of the system being simulated. It is there to give you an idea about how something works.

An emulation is a system that behaves exactly like something else, and abides by all of the rules of the system being emulated. It is effectively a complete replication of another system, right down to being binary compatible with the emulated system's inputs and outputs, but operating in a different environment to the environment of the original emulated system. The rules are fixed, and cannot be changed or the system fails.

Why does scanf() need "%lf" for doubles, when printf() is okay with just "%f"?

Because C will promote floats to doubles for functions that take variable arguments. Pointers aren't promoted to anything, so you should be using %lf, %lg or %le (or %la in C99) to read in doubles.

Nginx location priority

From the HTTP core module docs:

  1. Directives with the "=" prefix that match the query exactly. If found, searching stops.
  2. All remaining directives with conventional strings. If this match used the "^~" prefix, searching stops.
  3. Regular expressions, in the order they are defined in the configuration file.
  4. If #3 yielded a match, that result is used. Otherwise, the match from #2 is used.

Example from the documentation:

location  = / {
  # matches the query / only.
  [ configuration A ] 
}
location  / {
  # matches any query, since all queries begin with /, but regular
  # expressions and any longer conventional blocks will be
  # matched first.
  [ configuration B ] 
}
location /documents/ {
  # matches any query beginning with /documents/ and continues searching,
  # so regular expressions will be checked. This will be matched only if
  # regular expressions don't find a match.
  [ configuration C ] 
}
location ^~ /images/ {
  # matches any query beginning with /images/ and halts searching,
  # so regular expressions will not be checked.
  [ configuration D ] 
}
location ~* \.(gif|jpg|jpeg)$ {
  # matches any request ending in gif, jpg, or jpeg. However, all
  # requests to the /images/ directory will be handled by
  # Configuration D.   
  [ configuration E ] 
}

If it's still confusing, here's a longer explanation.

What is the default root pasword for MySQL 5.7

I to was experiencing the same problem and the only thing I was able to do to make it work was to go this route:

drop user admin@localhost;
flush privileges;
create user admin@localhost identified by 'admins_password'

This allowed me to recreate my username and enter a password for the user name.

What does file:///android_asset/www/index.html mean?

it's file:///android_asset/... not file:///android_assets/... notice the plural of assets is wrong even if your file name is assets

How do I resolve a path relative to an ASP.NET MVC 4 application root?

In the action you can call:

this.Request.PhysicalPath

that returns the physical path in reference to the current controller. If you only need the root path call:

this.Request.PhysicalApplicationPath