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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.

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...

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

In most environments, console.table() can be used to display objects and arrays in a tabular format. For example: console.table(['Hello', 'world']); displays like: (index)value0"Hello"1"world" console.table({foo: 'bar', bar: 'baz'}); displays like: (index)value"fo...

RGB is an additive color model which represents colors as mixtures of red, green, and blue light. In essence, the RGB representation is the decimal equivalent of the Hexadecimal Notation. In Hexadecimal each number ranges from 00-FF which is equivalent to 0-255 in decimal and 0%-100% in percentages....

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 ...

Given a function that accepts a Node-style callback, fooFn(options, function callback(err, result) { ... }); you can promisify it (convert it to a promise-based function) like this: function promiseFooFn(options) { return new Promise((resolve, reject) => fooFn(options, (err, re...

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. &...

Breakpoints pause your program once execution reaches a certain point. You can then step through the program line by line, observing its execution and inspecting the contents of your variables. There are three ways of creating breakpoints. From code, using the debugger; statement. From the brow...

The pipe operator, %>%, is used to insert an argument into a function. It is not a base feature of the language and can only be used after attaching a package that provides it, such as magrittr. The pipe operator takes the left-hand side (LHS) of the pipe and uses it as the first argument of the ...

Use putAll to put every member of one map into another. Keys already present in the map will have their corresponding values overwritten. Map<String, Integer> numbers = new HashMap<>(); numbers.put("One", 1) numbers.put("Three", 3) Map<String, Integer> othe...

A a pointer to a piece of memory containing n elements may only be dereferenced if it is in the range memory and memory + (n - 1). Dereferencing a pointer outside of that range results in undefined behavior. As an example, consider the following code: int array[3]; int *beyond_array = array + 3; ...

To delete a remote branch in Git: git push [remote-name] --delete [branch-name] or git push [remote-name] :[branch-name]

If a remote branch has been deleted, your local repository has to be told to prune the reference to it. To prune deleted branches from a specific remote: git fetch [remote-name] --prune To prune deleted branches from all remotes: git fetch --all --prune

A group is a section of a regular expression enclosed in parentheses (). This is commonly called "sub-expression" and serves two purposes: It makes the sub-expression atomic, i.e. it will either match, fail or repeat as a whole. The portion of text it matched is accessible in the remai...

Since Groups are "numbered" some engines also support matching what a group has previously matched again. Assuming you wanted to match something where two equals strings of length three are divided by a $ you'd use: (.{3})\$\1 This would match any of the following strings: "abc$...

See full documentation on LIKE operator. This example uses the Employees Table from the Example Databases. SELECT * FROM Employees WHERE FName LIKE 'John' This query will only return Employee #1 whose first name matches 'John' exactly. SELECT * FROM Employees WHERE FName like 'John%' Ad...

In standard pattern matching, the identifier used will shadow any identifier in the enclosing scope. Sometimes it is necessary to match on the enclosing scope's variable. The following example function takes a character and a list of tuples and returns a new list of tuples. If the character existed...

The lambda keyword creates an inline function that contains a single expression. The value of this expression is what the function returns when invoked. Consider the function: def greeting(): return "Hello" which, when called as: print(greeting()) prints: Hello This can ...

This example shows the usage of the ILGenerator by generating code that makes use of already existing and new created members as well as basic Exception handling. The following code emits a DynamicAssembly that contains an equivalent to this c# code: public static class UnixTimeHelper { priva...