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Using Regex.exec() with parentheses regex to extract matches of a string

Sometimes you doesn't want to simply replace or remove the string. Sometimes you want to extract and process matches. Here an example of how you manipulate matches. What is a match ? When a compatible substring is found for the entire regex in the string, the exec command produce a match. A match i...

JavaScript • Regular expressions

Matching pairs (like parenthesis, brackets…)

Some regex engines (such as .NET) can handle context-free expressions, and will work it out. But that's not the case for most standard engines. And even if they do, you'll end up having a complex hard-to-read expression, whereas using a parsing library could make the job easier. How to find all p...

Regular Expressions • When you should NOT use Regular Expressions

Simple string operations

Because Regular Expressions can do a lot, it is tempting to use them for the simplest operations. But using a regex engine has a cost in memory and processor usage: you need to compile the expression, store the automaton in memory, initialize it and then feed it with the string to run it. And there...

Regular Expressions • When you should NOT use Regular Expressions

Parsing HTML (or XML, or JSON, or C code, or…)

If you want to extract something from a webpage (or any representation/programming language), a regex is the wrong tool for the task. You should instead use your language's libraries to achieve the task. If you want to read HTML, or XML, or JSON, just use the library that parses it properly and ser...

Regular Expressions • When you should NOT use Regular Expressions

Mapping models

EntityFramewok Fluent API is a powerful and elegant way of mapping your code-first domain models to underlying database. This also can be used with code-first with existing database. You have two options when using Fluent API: you can directly map your models on OnModelCreating method or you can cre...

Entity Framework • Code First - Fluent API

Sending a POST Request with arguments using NSURLSession in Objective-C

There are two common ways to encode a POST request body: URL encoding (application/x-www-form-urlencoded) and form data (multipart/form-data). Much of the code is similar, but the way you construct the body data is different. Sending a request using URL encoding Be it you have a server for your s...

iOS • NSURLSession

Introduction

A pointer is declared much like any other variable, except an asterisk (*) is placed between the type and the name of the variable to denote it is a pointer. int *pointer; /* inside a function, pointer is uninitialized and doesn't point to any valid object yet */ To declare two pointer variables...

C Language • Pointers

Using fflush on an input stream

The POSIX and C standards explicitly state that using fflush on an input stream is undefined behavior. The fflush is defined only for output streams. #include <stdio.h> int main() { int i; char input[4096]; scanf("%i", &i); fflush(stdin); // <-- unde...

C Language • Undefined behavior

Raising SIGALARM with the default action

Using alarm, user can schedule SIGALARM signal to be raised after specified interval. In case user did not blocked, ignored or specified explicit signal handler for this signal, the default action for this signal will be performed on arrival. Per specification default action for SIGALARM is to termi...

POSIX • Signals

Installation

You can install Sinatra as a global gem: gem install sinatra or add it to a project's Gemfile # in Gemfile: gem 'sinatra' and run bundle install.

sinatra • Getting started with sinatra

Implicits in the REPL

To view all the implicits in-scope during a REPL session: scala> :implicits To also include implicit conversions defined in Predef.scala: scala> :implicits -v If one has an expression and wishes to view the effect of all rewrite rules that apply to it (including implicits): scala> ...

Scala Language • Implicits

Using a Savitzky–Golay filter

Given a noisy signal: import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt np.random.seed(1) x = np.linspace(0,2*np.pi,100) y = np.sin(x) + np.random.random(100) * 0.2 plt.plot(x,y) plt.show() one can smooth it using a Savitzky–Golay filter using the scipy.signal.savgol_filter() method...

scipy • Smoothing a signal

Communicating with a Web Worker

Since workers run in a separate thread from the one that created them, communication needs to happen via postMessage. Note: Because of the different export prefixes, some browsers have webkitPostMessage instead of postMessage. You should override postMessage to make sure workers "work" (n...

JavaScript • Workers

Multiple non-identical definitions (the One Definition Rule)

If a class, enum, inline function, template, or member of a template has external linkage and is defined in multiple translation units, all definitions must be identical or the behavior is undefined according to the One Definition Rule (ODR). foo.h: class Foo { public: double x; private...

C++ • Undefined Behavior

Internal Stylesheet

You can also include CSS elements internally by using the <style> tag: <head> <style type="text/css"> body { background-color: gray; } </style> </head> Multiple internal stylesheets can be included in a program as...

HTML • Using HTML with CSS

Inline Style

You can style a specific element by using the style attribute: <span style="color: red">This text will appear in red.</span> Note: Try to avoid this -- the point of CSS is to separate content from presentation.

HTML • Using HTML with CSS

Android Step 1: Layout, Initialization, and Handling Server Response

The complete sample code for this application (Android + Node server) is available in the PayPal Developer Github repository. The first stage of creating the Android portion of our application is to set up a basic layout and handle responses that come back from the server that we'll set up in Node....

PayPal • Mobile Future Payments (End to End App)

Generating Java code from simple XSD file

XSD schema (schema.xsd) The following xml schema (xsd) defines a list of users with attributes name and reputation. <?xml version="1.0"?> <xs:schema version="1.0" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:ns="http://www...

Java Language • XJC

Creating Object and setting properties using reflection

Lets say we have a class Classy that has property Propertua public class Classy { public string Propertua {get; set;} } to set Propertua using reflection: var typeOfClassy = typeof (Classy); var classy = new Classy(); var prop = typeOfClassy.GetProperty("Propertua"); prop.Se...

.NET Framework • Reflection

Navigating to the beginning of a specific word

When editing text, a common task is to navigate to a particular word on the screen. In these examples we explore how we can navigate to the word updated. For the sake of consistency across the examples, we aim to land on the first letter of the word. Mid-screen jump M$B This approach is quick...

vim • Movement