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CL-PPCRE:REGISTER-GROUPS-BIND will match a string against a regular expression, and if it matches, bind register groups in the regex to variables. If the string does not match, NIL is returned. (defun parse-date-string (date-string) (cl-ppcre:register-groups-bind (year month day) (...

Say you want to print variables in a 3 character column. Note: doubling { and } escapes them. s = """ pad {{:3}} :{a:3}: truncate {{:.3}} :{e:.3}: combined {{:>3.3}} :{a:>3.3}: {{:3.3}} :{a:3.3}: {{:3.3}} :{c:3...

To create a function which accepts an undetermined number of arguments, there are two methods depending on your environment. 5 Whenever a function is called, it has an Array-like arguments object in its scope, containing all the arguments passed to the function. Indexing into or iterating over th...

ctrl + alt + shift + / (cmd + alt + shift + / on MacOS) should show you the following dialog: Clicking on Registry you will get The key you want to enable/disable is editor.skip.copy.and.cut.for.empty.selection Tested on Linux Ubuntu and MacOS.

Conditional contexts in Lua (if, elseif, while, until) do not require a boolean. Like many languages, any Lua value can appear in a condition. The rules for evaluation are simple: false and nil count as false. Everything else counts as true. if 1 then print("Numbers work.") ...

Conditional expressions can be done with ~[ and ~]. The clauses of the expression are separated using ~;. By default, ~[ takes an integer from the argument list, and picks the corresponding clause. The clauses start at zero. (format t "~@{~[First clause~;Second clause~;Third clause~;Fourth cl...

With Clipping and Masking you can make some specified parts of elements transparent or opaque. Both can be applied to any HTML element. Clipping Clips are vector paths. Outside of this path the element will be transparent, inside it's opaque. Therefore you can define a clip-path property on elemen...

+ dictionaryWithCapacity: Creates and returns a mutable dictionary, initially giving it enough allocated memory to hold a given number of entries. NSMutableDictionary *dict = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithCapacity:1]; NSLog(@"%@",dict); - init Initializes a newly allocated mut...

- removeObjectForKey: Removes a given key and its associated value from the dictionary. NSMutableDictionary *dict = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithDictionary:@{@"key1":@"Easy",@"key2": @"Tutorials"}]; [dict removeObjectForKey:@"key1"]; NSLog...

A declaration introduces an identifier and describes its type, be it a type, object, or function. A declaration is what the compiler needs to accept references to that identifier. These are declarations: extern int bar; extern int g(int, int); double f(int, double); /* extern can be omitted for f...

A data race or race condition is a problem that can occur when a multithreaded program is not properly synchronized. If two or more threads access the same memory without synchronization, and at least one of the accesses is a 'write' operation, a data race occurs. This leads to platform dependent, p...

Dim sites() As String = {"Stack Overflow", "Super User", "Ask Ubuntu", "Hardware Recommendations"} Dim query = From x In sites Where x.StartsWith("S") ' result = "Stack Overflow", "Super User" Query will be enumerable objec...

Using sw As New System.IO.StreamWriter("path\to\file.txt") sw.WriteLine("Hello world") End Using The use of a Using block is recommended good practice when using an object that Implements IDisposable

std::ifstream f("file.txt"); if (f) { std::stringstream buffer; buffer << f.rdbuf(); f.close(); // The content of "file.txt" is available in the string `buffer.str()` } The rdbuf() method returns a pointer to a streambuf that can be pushed into buffer...

It's possible to send broadcast to BroadcastReceiver with adb. In this example we are sending broadcast with action com.test.app.ACTION and string extra in bundle 'foo'='bar': adb shell am broadcast -a action com.test.app.ACTION --es foo "bar" You can put any other supported type to b...

Here is an example of basic overriding in Python (for the sake of clarity and compatibility with both Python 2 and 3, using new style class and print with ()): class Parent(object): def introduce(self): print("Hello!") def print_name(self): print("Parent...

UPDATE person SET state = 'NY' WHERE city = 'New York';

Using GNU grep grep -r 'pattern' <directory path> To also list line numbers of matches use -n option grep -rn 'pattern' <directory path> To search only files with particular glob pattern grep --include='*.txt' -r 'pattern' <directory path> Exclude file patterns or direc...

Custom events usually need custom event arguments containing information about the event. For example MouseEventArgs which is used by mouse events like MouseDown or MouseUp events, contains information about Location or Buttons which used to generate the event. When creating new events, to create a...

Download and install Visual Studio Community 2015 Open Visual Studio Community Click File -> New -> Project Click Templates -> Visual C++ -> Win32 Console Application and then name the project MyFirstProgram. Click Ok Click Next in the following window. Check the Empty proj...