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When SQL/Plus or SQL Developer display dates they will perform an implicit conversion to a string using the default date format model (see the Setting the Default Date Format Model example). You can change how a date is displayed by changing the NLS_DATE_FORMAT parameter.

rgdal ESRI shape files can easily be imported into R by using the function readOGR() from the rgdal package. library(rgdal) shp <- readORG(dsn = "/path/to/your/file", layer = "filename") It is important to know, that the dsn must not end with / and the layer does not all...

You can create parser error messages according to your script needs. This is through the argparse.ArgumentParser.error function. The below example shows the script printing a usage and an error message to stderr when --foo is given but not --bar. import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser...

Similar to the built-in function zip(), itertools.zip_longest will continue iterating beyond the end of the shorter of two iterables. from itertools import zip_longest a = [i for i in range(5)] # Length is 5 b = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g'] # Length is 7 for i in zip_longest(a, b): x...

Visual Basic has Left, Right, and Mid functions that returns characters from the Left, Right, and Middle of a string. These methods does not exist in C#, but can be implemented with Substring(). They can be implemented as an extension methods like the following: public static class StringExtens...

Each pair in the dictionary is an instance of KeyValuePair with the same type parameters as the Dictionary. When you loop through the dictionary with For Each, each iteration will give you one of the Key-Value Pairs stored in the dictionary. For Each kvp As KeyValuePair(Of String, String) In curren...

Get width and height: var width = $('#target-element').width(); var height = $('#target-element').height(); Set width and height: $('#target-element').width(50); $('#target-element').height(100);

Get width and height: var width = $('#target-element').innerWidth(); var height = $('#target-element').innerHeight(); Set width and height: $('#target-element').innerWidth(50); $('#target-element').innerHeight(100);

Get width and height (excluding margin): var width = $('#target-element').outerWidth(); var height = $('#target-element').outerHeight(); Get width and height (including margin): var width = $('#target-element').outerWidth(true); var height = $('#target-element').outerHeight(true); Set widt...

Picasso supports both download and error placeholders as optional features. Its also provides callbacks for handling the download result. Picasso.with(context) .load("YOUR IMAGE URL HERE") .placeholder(Your Drawable Resource) //this is optional the image to display while the url i...

Share simple information with differents apps. Intent sendIntent = new Intent(); sendIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND); sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "This is my text to send."); sendIntent.setType("text/plain"); startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sendIntent, get...

Factories can be used in conjunction with Inversion of Control (IoC) libraries too. The typical use case for such a factory is when we want to create an object based on parameters that are not known until run-time (such as the current User). In these cases it can be sometimes be difficult (if no...

Suppose you have this type: data Person = Person { name :: String, age:: Int } deriving (Show, Eq) and two values: alex = Person { name = "Alex", age = 21 } jenny = Person { name = "Jenny", age = 36 } a new value of type Person can be created by copying from alex, specif...

So you've uploaded your files to a folder say /backend/web/uploads/ and you want these uploads to be visible on the frontend too. The easiest option is to create a symlink in the frontend that links to the backend: ln -s /path/to/backend/web/uploads/ /path/to/frontend/web/uploads In your views y...

SharedPreferences allows you to store primitive data types only (boolean, float, long, int, String, and string set). You cannot store more complex objects in SharedPreferences, and as such is really meant to be a place to store user settings or similar, it's not meant to be a database to keep user d...

If you need to count distinct characters then, for the reasons explained in Remarks section, you can't simply use Length property because it's the length of the array of System.Char which are not characters but code-units (not Unicode code-points nor graphemes). If, for example, you simply write tex...

If you need to count characters then, for the reasons explained in Remarks section, you can't simply use Length property because it's the length of the array of System.Char which are not characters but code-units (not Unicode code-points nor graphemes). Correct code is then: int length = text.Enume...

Because of the reasons explained in Remarks section you can't simply do this (unless you want to count occurrences of a specific code-unit): int count = text.Count(x => x == ch); You need a more complex function: public static int CountOccurrencesOf(this string text, string character) { ...

Simple struct C++ signature: typedef struct _PERSON { int age; char name[32]; } PERSON, *LP_PERSON; void GetSpouse(PERSON person, LP_PERSON spouse); C# definition [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, CharSet = CharSet.Ansi)] public struct PERSON { public int age; [Ma...

The below examples use the new form API introduced in RC3. pw-change.template.html <form class="container" [formGroup]="pwChangeForm"> <label for="current">Current Password</label> <input id="current" formControlName="curr...