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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

One-to-many relationships

UserType belongs to many Users <-> Users have one UserType One way navigation property with required public class UserType { public int UserTypeId {get; set;} } public class User { public int UserId {get; set;} public int UserTypeId {get; set;} public virtual UserType...

Entity Framework • Model Restraints

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

Composite Primary Key

By using the .HasKey() method, a set of properties can be explicitly configured as the composite primary key of the entity. using System.Data.Entity; // .. public class PersonContext : DbContext { // .. protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder) {...

Entity Framework • Code First - Fluent API

Required properties (NOT NULL)

By using the .IsRequired() method, properties can be specified as mandatory, which means that the column will have a NOT NULL constraint. using System.Data.Entity; // .. public class PersonContext : DbContext { // .. protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelB...

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

Basics

GSP supports the usage of <% %> scriptlet blocks to embed Groovy code (this is discouraged): <html> <body> <% out << "Hello GSP!" %> </body> </html> You can also use the <%= %> syntax to output values, like in JSP: <htm...

grails • GSP

Expressions

In GSP the <%= %> syntax is rarely used due to the support for GSP expressions. A GSP expression is similar to a JSP EL expression or a Groovy GString and takes the form ${expr}: <html> <body> Hello ${params.name} </body> </html> However, unlike JSP EL ...

grails • GSP

Media queries and IE8

Media queries are not supported at all in IE8 and below. A Javascript based workaround To add support for IE8, you could use one of several JS solutions. For example, Respond can be added to add media query support for IE8 only with the following code : <!--[if lt IE 9]> <script ...

CSS • Media Queries

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

Child Pseudo Class

"The :nth-child(an+b) CSS pseudo-class matches an element that has an+b-1 siblings before it in the document tree, for a given positive or zero value for n" - MDN :nth-child pseudo-selector12345678910:first-child✔:nth-child(3)✔:nth-child(n+3)✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔:nth-child(3n)✔✔✔:nth-child(3n+1)...

CSS • Selectors

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

Create child process and wait until it exits

This program demonstrates how to run another process using fork() and wait its termination using waitpid(): fork() creates an identical copy of the current process. The original process is the parent process, while the newly created one is the child process. Both processes continue exactly afte...

POSIX • Processes

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

Ranges of numeric types

The ranges of the integer types are implementation-defined. The header <limits> provides the std::numeric_limits<T> template which provides the minimum and maximum values of all fundamental types. The values satisfy guarantees provided by the C standard through the <climits> and (&...

C++ • Implementation-defined behavior