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DCGs can be used for parsing. Best of all, the same DCG can often be used to both parse and generate lists that are being described. For example: sentence --> article, subject, verb, object. article --> [the]. subject --> [woman] | [man]. verb --> [likes] | [enjoys]. object ...

The C-API is the most powerful way to access PostgreSQL and it is surprisingly comfortable. Compilation and linking During compilation, you have to add the PostgreSQL include directory, which can be found with pg_config --includedir, to the include path. You must link with the PostgreSQL client s...

Prerequisites In order to run Elasticsearch, a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is required on the machine. Elasticsearch requires Java 7 or higher and recommends Oracle JDK version 1.8.0_73. Install Oracle Java 8 sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update echo "or...

The Locals window provides easy access to the current value of variables and objects within the scope of the function or subroutine you are running. It is an essential tool to debugging your code and stepping through changes in order to find issues. It also allows you to explore properties you might...

Use charAt() to get a character at the specified index in the string. var string = "Hello, World!"; console.log( string.charAt(4) ); // "o" Alternatively, because strings can be treated like arrays, use the index via bracket notation. var string = "Hello, World!";...

In ASP.NET Web API, a controller is a class that handles HTTP requests. The public methods of the controller are called action methods or simply actions. When the Web API framework receives a request, it routes the request to an action. To determine which action to invoke, the framework uses a rou...

To load a bundled image: package com.example; public class ExampleApplication { private Image getIcon() throws IOException { URL imageURL = ExampleApplication.class.getResource("icon.png"); return ImageIO.read(imageURL); } }

A template autorun may be used to (re)subscribe to a publication. It establishes a reactive context which is re-executed whenever any reactive data it depends on changes. In addition, an autorun always runs once (the first time it is executed). Template autoruns are normally put in an onCreated met...

Sometimes a term is defined in multiple sections of the manual. By default, man will only display the first page it finds, which can be annoying for programmers because C functions are documented in a later section than commands and system calls. Use the following to display all pages that match a...

You can use the Substring method to get any number of characters from a string at any given location. However, if you only want a single character, you can use the string indexer to get a single character at any given index like you do with an array: string s = "hello"; char c = s[1]; //...

Let us build a simple control, a rating widget, intended to be used as: <rating min="0" max="5" nullifier="true" ng-model="data.rating"></rating> No fancy CSS for now; this would render as: 0 1 2 3 4 5 x Clicking on a number selects that ra...

When you need to pass a collection into a Java method: import scala.collection.JavaConverters._ val scalaList = List(1, 2, 3) JavaLibrary.process(scalaList.asJava) If the Java code returns a Java collection, you can turn it into a Scala collection in a similar manner: import scala.collectio...

To create minification-safe angular controllers, you will change the controller function parameters. The second argument in the module.controller function should be passed an array, where the last parameter is the controller function, and every parameter before that is the name of each injected val...

defmodule Math do # We start of by passing the sum/1 function a list of numbers. def sum(numbers) do do_sum(numbers, 0) end # Recurse over the list when it contains at least one element. # We break the list up into two parts: # head: the first element of the list # ta...

.gitignore ignores files locally, but it is intended to be committed to the repository and shared with other contributors and users. You can set a global .gitignore, but then all your repositories would share those settings. If you want to ignore certain files in a repository locally and not make t...

create table empl ( name text primary key, boss text null references name on update cascade on delete cascade default null ); insert into empl values ('Paul',null); insert into empl values ('Luke','Paul'); insert into empl values ('Kate'...

Public Module Usage Public Sub LikeThis() Dim iCount As Integer Dim sCount As String iCount = 245 sCount = iCount.PadLeft(4, "0") Console.WriteLine(sCount) Console.ReadKey() End Sub End Module Public Module Padding <Extension> Pub...

A metatable defines a set of operations which alter the behaviour of a lua object. A metatable is just an ordinary table, which is used in a special way. local meta = { } -- create a table for use as metatable -- a metatable can change the behaviour of many things -- here we modify the 'tostrin...

Some metamethods don't have to be functions. To most important example for this is the __index metamethod. It can also be a table, which is then used as lookup. This is quite commonly used in the creation of classes in lua. Here, a table (often the metatable itself) is used to hold all the operation...

5.2 Objects in lua are garbage collected. Sometimes, you need to free some resource, want to print a message or do something else when an object is destroyed (collected). For this, you can use the __gc metamethod, which gets called with the object as argument when the object is destroyed. You could...