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POST Data

Posting form data fetch(`/example/submit`, { method: 'POST', body: new FormData(document.getElementById('example-form')) }); Posting JSON data fetch(`/example/submit.json`, { method: 'POST', body: JSON.stringify({ email: document.getElementById('example-email').val...

JavaScript • Fetch

Matching the beginning of a string

The first argument of re.match() is the regular expression, the second is the string to match: import re pattern = r"123" string = "123zzb" re.match(pattern, string) # Out: <_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 3), match='123'> match = re.match(pattern, string) ma...

Python Language • Regular Expressions (Regex)

Use InputBox to assign user input to a string

' Omitting the 4th and 5th argument ("xpos" and "ypos") will result in the prompt ' being display center of the parent screen exampleString = InputBox("What is your name?", "Name Check", "Jon Skeet", 2500, 2000) WScript.Echo "Your name ...

vbscript • InputBox

Registering for local notifications

iOS 8 In order to present local notifications to the user, you have to register your app with the device: Swift let settings = UIUserNotificationSettings(forTypes: [.Badge, .Sound, .Alert], categories: nil) UIApplication.sharedApplication().registerUserNotificationSettings(settings) Objective...

iOS • UILocalNotification

The WHERE clause only returns rows that match its criteria

Steam has a games under $10 section of their store page. Somewhere deep in the heart of their systems, there's probably a query that looks something like: SELECT * FROM Items WHERE Price < 10

SQL • Filter results using WHERE and HAVING

Installation and initial setup

Install the svn client to start collaborating on the project that is using Subversion as its version control system. To install Subversion, you can build it yourself from a source code release or download a binary package pre-built for your operating system. The list of sites where you can obtain a...

svn • Getting started with svn

Using lookbehind to test endings

A lookbehind can be used at the end of a pattern to ensure it ends or not in a certain way. ([a-z ]+|[A-Z ]+)(?<! ) matches sequences of only lowercase or only uppercase words while excluding trailing whitespace.

Regular Expressions • Lookahead and Lookbehind

Converting a string to a number

Number('0') === 0 Number('0') will convert the string ('0') into a number (0) A shorter, but less clear, form: +'0' === 0 The unary + operator does nothing to numbers, but converts anything else to a number. Interestingly, +(-12) === -12. parseInt('0', 10) === 0 parseInt('0', 10) will c...

JavaScript • Variable coercion/conversion

Converting a number to a string

String(0) === '0' String(0) will convert the number (0) into a string ('0'). A shorter, but less clear, form: '' + 0 === '0'

JavaScript • Variable coercion/conversion

What is the Box Model?

The Edges The browser creates a rectangle for each element in the HTML document. The Box Model describes how the padding, border, and margin are added to the content to create this rectangle. Diagram from CSS2.2 Working Draft The perimeter of each of the four areas is called an edge. Each edge ...

CSS • The Box Model

Abstract equality / inequality and type conversion

The Problem The abstract equality and inequality operators (== and !=) convert their operands if the operand types do not match. This type coercion is a common source of confusion about the results of these operators, in particular, these operators aren't always transitive as one would expect. &...

JavaScript • Comparison Operations

Showcasing all common Angular constructs

The following example shows common AngularJS constructs in one file: <!DOCTYPE html> <html ng-app="myDemoApp"> <head> <style>.started { background: gold; }</style> <script src="https://code.angularjs.org/1.5.8/angular.min.js">&lt...

AngularJS • Getting started with AngularJS

List of true and false values

use feature qw( say ); # Numbers are true if they're not equal to 0. say 0 ? 'true' : 'false'; # false say 1 ? 'true' : 'false'; # true say 2 ? 'true' : 'false'; # true say -1 ? 'true' : 'false'; # true say 1-1 ? 'true' : 'false'; # fa...

Perl Language • True and false

Installation

QML comes with newer Version of the cross-platform application framework Qt. You can find the newest Version of Qt in the Downloads section. To create a new QML Project in the Qt Creator IDE, select "File -> New ..." and under "Applications" select "Qt Quick-Application...

qml • Getting started with qml

Check if a string matches a regular expression

3.0 Check if a string consists in exactly 8 digits: $ date=20150624 $ [[ $date =~ ^[0-9]{8}$ ]] && echo "yes" || echo "no" yes $ date=hello $ [[ $date =~ ^[0-9]{8}$ ]] && echo "yes" || echo "no" no

Bash • Pattern matching and regular expressions

Here strings

2.05b You can feed a command using here strings like this: $ awk '{print $2}' <<< "hello world - how are you?" world $ awk '{print $1}' <<< "hello how are you > she is fine" hello she You can also feed a while loop with a here string: $ while IFS...

Bash • Here documents and here strings

Installing Docker on Mac OS X

Requirements: OS X 10.8 “Mountain Lion” or newer required to run Docker. While the docker binary can run natively on Mac OS X, to build and host containers you need to run a Linux virtual machine on the box. 1.12.0 Since version 1.12 you don't need to have a separate VM to be installed, as Docker...

Docker • Getting started with Docker

Installation

Binaries Lua binaries are provided by most GNU/Linux distributions as a package. For example, on Debian, Ubuntu, and their derivatives it can be acquired by executing this: sudo apt-get install lua50 sudo apt-get install lua51 sudo apt-get install lua52 There are some semi-of...

Lua • Getting started with Lua

Uninstalling packages

To uninstall one or more locally installed packages, use: npm uninstall <package name> The uninstall command for npm has five aliases that can also be used: npm remove <package name> npm rm <package name> npm r <package name> npm unlink <package name> npm un ...

Node.js • npm

Use IN to return rows with a value contained in a list

This example uses the Car Table from the Example Databases. SELECT * FROM Cars WHERE TotalCost IN (100, 200, 300) This query will return Car #2 which costs 200 and Car #3 which costs 100. Note that this is equivalent to using multiple clauses with OR, e.g.: SELECT * FROM Cars WHERE TotalCos...

SQL • Filter results using WHERE and HAVING