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Program options can be handled with the getopt() function. It operates with a similar syntax to the POSIX getopt command, with additional support for GNU-style long options. #!/usr/bin/php // a single colon indicates the option takes a value // a double colon indicates the value may be omitted ...

At the command line, first verify that you have Git installed: On all operating systems: git --version On UNIX-like operating systems: which git If nothing is returned, or the command is not recognized, you may have to install Git on your system by downloading and running the installer. See...

#map, provided by Enumerable, creates an array by invoking a block on each element and collecting the results: [1, 2, 3].map { |i| i * 3 } # => [3, 6, 9] ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5'].map { |i| i.to_i } # => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] The original array is not modified; a new array is returned conta...

The git clone command is used to copy an existing Git repository from a server to the local machine. For example, to clone a GitHub project: cd <path where you'd like the clone to create a directory> git clone https://github.com/username/projectname.git To clone a BitBucket project: cd ...

The JSONSerialization class is built into Apple's Foundation framework. 2.2 Read JSON The JSONObjectWithData function takes NSData, and returns AnyObject. You can use as? to convert the result to your expected type. do { guard let jsonData = "[\"Hello\", \"JSON\"]&q...

Normally, enums can't be recursive (because they would require infinite storage): enum Tree<T> { case leaf(T) case branch(Tree<T>, Tree<T>) // error: recursive enum 'Tree<T>' is not marked 'indirect' } The indirect keyword makes the enum store its payload with...

This example assumes Ruby and Ruby on Rails have already been installed properly. If not, you can find how to do it here. Open up a command line or terminal. To generate a new rails application, use rails new command followed by the name of your application: $ rails new my_app If you want to c...

Logical OR (||), reading left to right, will evaluate to the first truthy value. If no truthy value is found, the last value is returned. var a = 'hello' || ''; // a = 'hello' var b = '' || []; // b = [] var c = '' || undefined; // c = undefined var d = 1 |...

Standard usage for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) { console.log(i); } Expected output: 0 1 ... 99 Multiple declarations Commonly used to cache the length of an array. var array = ['a', 'b', 'c']; for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++) { console.log(array[i]); } Expect...

Standard While Loop A standard while loop will execute until the condition given is false: var i = 0; while (i < 100) { console.log(i); i++; } Expected output: 0 1 ... 99 Decremented loop var i = 100; while (i > 0) { console.log(i); i--; /* equivalent to i...

Breaking out of a while loop var i = 0; while(true) { i++; if(i === 42) { break; } } console.log(i); Expected output: 42 Breaking out of a for loop var i; for(i = 0; i < 100; i++) { if(i === 42) { break; } } console.log(i); Expected o...

Continuing a "for" Loop When you put the continue keyword in a for loop, execution jumps to the update expression (i++ in the example): for (var i = 0; i < 3; i++) { if (i === 1) { continue; } console.log(i); } Expected output: 0 2 Continuing a While...

Using the def statement is the most common way to define a function in python. This statement is a so called single clause compound statement with the following syntax: def function_name(parameters): statement(s) function_name is known as the identifier of the function. Since a function def...

Sometimes you don't want to have your function accessible/stored as a variable. You can create an Immediately Invoked Function Expression (IIFE for short). These are essentially self-executing anonymous functions. They have access to the surrounding scope, but the function itself and any internal va...

When you define a function, it creates a scope. Everything defined within the function is not accessible by code outside the function. Only code within this scope can see the entities defined inside the scope. function foo() { var a = 'hello'; console.log(a); // => 'hello' } consol...

The then method of a promise returns a new promise. const promise = new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 5000)); promise // 5 seconds later .then(() => 2) // returning a value from a then callback will cause // the new promise to resolve with this value .then...

git push will push your code to your existing upstream. Depending on the push configuration, it will either push code from you current branch (default in Git 2.x) or from all branches (default in Git 1.x). Specify remote repository When working with git, it can be handy to have multiple remote ...

Sometimes, when you have local changes incompatible with remote changes (ie, when you cannot fast-forward the remote branch, or the remote branch is not a direct ancestor of your local branch), the only way to push your changes is a force push. git push -f or git push --force Important not...

for loops iterate over a collection of items, such as list or dict, and run a block of code with each element from the collection. for i in [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]: print(i) The above for loop iterates over a list of numbers. Each iteration sets the value of i to the next element of the list. So f...

import random shuffle() You can use random.shuffle() to mix up/randomize the items in a mutable and indexable sequence. For example a list: laughs = ["Hi", "Ho", "He"] random.shuffle(laughs) # Shuffles in-place! Don't do: laughs = random.shuffle(laughs) p...