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You can use Bash Parameter Expansion to emulate common filename-processing operations like basename and dirname. We will use this as our example path: FILENAME="/tmp/example/myfile.txt" To emulate dirname and return the directory name of a file path: echo "${FILENAME%/*}" ...

Another use of RODBC is in connecting with SQL Server Management Database. We need to specify the 'Driver' i.e. SQL Server here, the database name "Atilla" and then use the sqlQuery to extract either the full table or a fraction of it. library(RODBC) cn <- odbcDriverConnect(connect...

proc myproc {} { puts "hi" } myproc # => hi An empty argument list (the second argument after the procedure name, "myproc") means that the procedure will not accept arguments.

proc myproc {alpha beta} { ... set foo $alpha set beta $bar ;# note: possibly useless invocation } myproc 12 34 ;# alpha will be 12, beta will be 34 If the argument list consists of words, those will be the names of local variables in the procedure, and their initi...

### Definition proc myproc {alpha {beta {}} {gamma green}} { puts [list $alpha $beta $gamma] } ### Use myproc A # => A {} green myproc A B # => A B green myproc A B C # => A B C This procedure accepts one, two, or three arguments: those parameters whose names are the fi...

proc myproc args { ... } proc myproc {args} { ... } ;# equivalent If the special parameter name args is the last item in the argument list, it receives a list of all arguments at that point in the command line. If there are none, the list is empty. There can be arguments, including optional one...

proc myproc {varName alpha beta} { upvar 1 $varName var set var [expr {$var * $alpha + $beta}] } set foo 1 myproc foo 10 5 puts $foo # => 15 In this particular case, the procedure is given the name of a variable in the current scope. Inside a Tcl procedure, such variables aren't...

Variables in Visual Basic are declared using the Dim keyword. For example, this declares a new variable called counter with the data type Integer: Dim counter As Integer A variable declaration can also include an access modifier, such as Public, Protected, Friend, or Private. This works in conju...

# application.rb config.time_zone = 'Eastern Time (US & Canada)'

# application.rb config.time_zone = 'Eastern Time (US & Canada)' config.active_record.default_timezone = :local

Commonly you would use :set to set options to your liking in your .vimrc. There are many options that can be changed. For example, in order to use spaces for indentation: :set expandtab :set shiftwidth=4 :set softtabstop=4

Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running") syntax on end Show trailing whitespace and tabs. Showing tabs can be especially useful when looking for errors in Makefiles. set list listchars=tab:\|_,trail:. highlight Specia...

Every Time you create an anonymous class, it retains an implicit reference to its parent class. So when you write: public class LeakyActivity extends Activity { ... foo.registerCallback(new BarCallback() { @Override public void onBar() { ...

Often you will want to wrap some of Android's classes in easier to use utility classes. Those utility classes often require a context to access the android OS or your apps' resources. A common example of this is a wrapper for the SharedPreferences class. In order to access Androids shared preference...

This is the code for changing output application file name (.apk). The name can be configured by assigning a different value to newName android { applicationVariants.all { variant -> def newName = "ApkName"; variant.outputs.each { output -> def ...

If you are optimizing all images manually, disable APT Cruncher for a smaller APK file size. android { aaptOptions { cruncherEnabled = false } }

synchronized is a low-level concurrency construct that can help preventing multiple threads access the same resources. Introduction for the JVM using the Java language. anInstance.synchronized { // code to run when the intristic lock on `anInstance` is acquired // other thread cannot enter co...

/* within a class, def, trait or object, but not a constructor */ synchronized { /* code to run when an intrisctic lock on `this` is acquired */ /* no other thread can get the this lock unless execution is suspended with * `wait` on `this` */ }

The GetParentFolderName method returns the parent folder for any path. While this can also be used with folders, it is arguably more useful for extracting the path from an absolute file path: Dim fso As New Scripting.FileSystemObject Debug.Print fso.GetParentFolderName("C:\Users\Me\My Docume...

In some cases it is necessary to calculate a variable amount of values on separate Futures. Assume to have a List[Future[Int]], but instead a List[Int] needs to be processed. Then the question is how to turn this instance of List[Future[Int]] into a Future[List[Int]]. For this purpose there is the s...