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--- trim: a string-trimming module for Lua -- Author, date, perhaps a nice license too -- -- The code here is taken or adapted from material in -- Programming in Lua, 3rd ed., Roberto Ierusalimschy -- trim_all(string) => return string with white space trimmed on both sides local trim_al...

-- The following assumes that trim module is installed or in the caller's package.path, -- which is a built-in variable that Lua uses to determine where to look for modules. local trim = require "trim" local msg = " Hello, world! " local cleaned = trim.trim_all(msg)...

DT[where, select|update|do, by] syntax is used to work with columns of a data.table. The "where" part is the i argument The "select|update|do" part is the j argument These two arguments are usually passed by position instead of by name. Our example data below is mtcars =...

Key Value Coding is integrated into NSObject using NSKeyValueCoding protocol. What this means? It means that any id object is capable of calling valueForKey method and its various variants like valueForKeyPath etc. ' It also means that any id object can invoke setValue method and its various vari...

The clone() method is used to create and return a copy of an object. This method arguable should be avoided as it is problematic and a copy constructor or some other approach for copying should be used in favour of clone(). For the method to be used all classes calling the method must implement the...

The functions for parsing a string into POSIXct and POSIXlt take similar parameters and return a similar-looking result, but there are differences in how that date-time is stored; see "Remarks." as.POSIXct("11:38", # time string format = "...

To start coding in the first place, you have to right click your VBA Project in the left list and add a new Module. Your first Hello-World Code could look like this: Sub HelloWorld() MsgBox "Hello, World!" End Sub To test it, hit the Play-Button in your Toolbar or simply hit the...

NSArray *myColors = [NSArray arrayWithObjects: @"Red", @"Green", @"Blue", @"Yellow", nil]; // Convert myColors to mutable NSMutableArray *myColorsMutable = [myColors mutableCopy];

Long vectors with long runs of the same value can be significantly compressed by storing them in their run-length encoding (the value of each run and the number of times that value is repeated). As an example, consider a vector of length 10 million with a huge number of 1's and only a small number o...

In Python 3, many of the dictionary methods are quite different in behaviour from Python 2, and many were removed as well: has_key, iter* and view* are gone. Instead of d.has_key(key), which had been long deprecated, one must now use key in d. In Python 2, dictionary methods keys, values and items ...

static class Program { static void Main() { dynamic dynamicObject = new ExpandoObject(); string awesomeString = "Awesome"; // Prints True Console.WriteLine(awesomeString.IsThisAwesome()); dynamicObject.StringValue = awesomeStrin...

What is a node.js module (link to article): A module encapsulates related code into a single unit of code. When creating a module, this can be interpreted as moving all related functions into a file. Now lets see an example. Imagine all files are in same directory: File: printer.js "use...

The Objective-C runtime allows you to change the implementation of a method at runtime. This is called method swizzling and is often used to exchange the implementations of two methods. For example, if the methods foo and bar are exchanged, sending the message foo will now execute the implementation...

You can use the Enumerable class alongside Linq queries to convert for loops into Linq one liners. Select Example Opposed to doing this: var asciiCharacters = new List<char>(); for (var x = 0; x < 256; x++) { asciiCharacters.Add((char)x); } You can do this: var asciiCharacter...

When assigning named methods to delegates, they will refer to the same underlying object if: They are the same instance method, on the same instance of a class They are the same static method on a class public class Greeter { public void WriteInstance() { Console.Write...

Named methods can be assigned to delegates with matching signatures: public static class Example { public static int AddOne(int input) { return input + 1; } } Func<int,int> addOne = Example.AddOne Example.AddOne takes an int and returns an int, its signature ...

Sometimes it's not a good practice expose an internal collection since it can lead to a malicious code vulnerability due to it's mutable characteristic. In order to provide "read-only" collections java provides its unmodifiable versions. An unmodifiable collection is often a copy of a mod...

Given the following history, imagine you make a change that you want to squash into the commit bbb2222 A second commit: $ git log --oneline --decorate ccc3333 (HEAD -> master) A third commit bbb2222 A second commit aaa1111 A first commit 9999999 Initial commit Once you've made your change...

Declaring a variable const only prevents its value from being replaced by a new value. const does not put any restrictions on the internal state of an object. The following example shows that a value of a property of a const object can be changed, and even new properties can be added, because the ob...

.encode and .decode both have error modes. The default is 'strict', which raises exceptions on error. Other modes are more forgiving. Encoding >>> "£13.55".encode('ascii', errors='replace') b'?13.55' >>> "£13.55".encode('ascii', errors='ignore') b'13.55' ...