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When we use a condition within another condition we say the conditions are "nested". One special case of nested conditions is given by the elseif option, but there are numerous other ways to use nested conditons. Let's examine the following code: a = 2; if mod(a,2)==0 % MOD - modulo o...

To check if a required gem is installed, from within your code, you can use the following (using nokogiri as an example): begin found_gem = Gem::Specification.find_by_name('nokogiri') require 'nokogiri' .... <the rest of your code> rescue Gem::LoadError end However, this can ...

This can be easily accomplished by calling Enumerable#to_a on a Range object: (1..10).to_a #=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] (a..b) means that it will include all numbers between a and b. To exclude the last number, use a...b a_range = 1...5 a_range.to_a #=> [1, 2, 3, 4] or...

While in insert mode, you can use <C-r> to paste from a register, which is specified by the next keystroke. <C-r>" for example pastes from the unnamed (") register. See :help registers.

Suppose we want to select a word with a surrounding white space, use the text object aw for around a word using visual mode: Got to normal mode by pressing ESC Type vaw at the beginning of a word This will select the word with white space

You may sometimes want to change the size of a split or vsplit. To change the size of the currently active split, use :resize <new size>. :resize 30 for example would make the split 30 lines tall. To change the size of the currently active vsplit, use :vertical resize <new size>. :vert...

Quite often it's necessary to send/upload a file to a remote server, for example, an image, video, audio or a backup of the application database to a remote private server. Assuming the server is expecting a POST request with the content, here's a simple example of how to complete this task in Andro...

Consider the program implicit none integer f, i f(i)=i print *, f(1) end Here f is a statement function. It has integer result type, taking one integer dummy argument.1 Such a statement function exists within the scope in which it is defined. In particular, it has access to variables an...

This substitute command can use Regular Expressions and will match any instance of foo followed by any( one ) character since the period . in Regular Expressions matches any character, hence the following command will match all instances of foo followed by any character in the current line. :s/foo....

You can use the (optional) delimiters attribute to specify which characters are used as separators in the list. <cfloop list="ColdFusion,HTML;XML" index="ListItem" delimiters=",;"> <cfoutput> #ListItem#<br /> </cfoutput> <...

You can loop over a Structure or COM collection. <cfset myBooks = StructNew()> <cfset myVariable = StructInsert(myBooks,"ColdFusion","ColdFusion MX Bible")> <cfset myVariable = StructInsert(myBooks,"HTML","HTML Visual QuickStart")> <cf...

Exporting a database is a simple two step process: sqlite> .output mydatabase_dump.sql sqlite> .dump Exporting a table is pretty similar: sqlite> .output mytable_dump.sql sqlite> .dump mytable The output file needs to be defined with .output prior to using .dump; otherwise, the...

We can run custom JavaScript on a UIWebView using the method stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString().This method returns the result of running the JavaScript script passed in the script parameter, or nil if the script fails. Swift Load script from String webview.stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromS...

Instead of web pages, we can also load the document files into iOS WebView like .pdf, .txt, .doc etc.. loadData method is used to load NSData into webview. Swift //Assuming there is a text file in the project named "home.txt". let localFilePath = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource(&...

Creating Gradient UIImage with colors in CGRect Swift: extension UIImage { static func gradientImageWithBounds(bounds: CGRect, colors: [CGColor]) -> UIImage { let gradientLayer = CAGradientLayer() gradientLayer.frame = bounds gradientLayer.colors = colors ...

+ (CALayer *)gradientBGLayerForBounds:(CGRect)bounds colors:(NSArray *)colors { CAGradientLayer * gradientBG = [CAGradientLayer layer]; gradientBG.frame = bounds; gradientBG.colors = colors; return gradientBG; }

Use threading.Thread to run a function in another thread. import threading import os def process(): print("Pid is %s, thread id is %s" % (os.getpid(), threading.current_thread().name)) threads = [threading.Thread(target=process) for _ in range(4)] for t in threads: t.sta...

Use multiprocessing.Process to run a function in another process. The interface is similar to threading.Thread: import multiprocessing import os def process(): print("Pid is %s" % (os.getpid(),)) processes = [multiprocessing.Process(target=process) for _ in range(4)] for p in...

As all threads are running in the same process, all threads have access to the same data. However, concurrent access to shared data should be protected with a lock to avoid synchronization issues. import threading obj = {} obj_lock = threading.Lock() def objify(key, val): print("O...

Code running in different processes do not, by default, share the same data. However, the multiprocessing module contains primitives to help share values across multiple processes. import multiprocessing plain_num = 0 shared_num = multiprocessing.Value('d', 0) lock = multiprocessing.Lock() ...