Tutorial by Examples: content

Iterating through the contents of a Map

Maps provide methods which let you access the keys, values, or key-value pairs of the map as collections. You can iterate through these collections. Given the following map for example: Map<String, Integer> repMap = new HashMap<>(); repMap.put("Jon Skeet", 927_654); repMap.p...

Java Language • Maps

Getting the full contents of a file

The preferred method of file i/o is to use the with keyword. This will ensure the file handle is closed once the reading or writing has been completed. with open('myfile.txt') as in_file: content = in_file.read() print(content) or, to handle closing the file manually, you can forgo with...

Python Language • Files & Folders I/O

Copying contents of one file to a different file

with open(input_file, 'r') as in_file, open(output_file, 'w') as out_file: for line in in_file: out_file.write(line) Using the shutil module: import shutil shutil.copyfile(src, dst)

Python Language • Files & Folders I/O

Clearing array contents (zeroing)

Sometimes it's necessary to set an array to zero, after the initialization has been done. #include <stdlib.h> /* for EXIT_SUCCESS */ #define ARRLEN (10) int main(void) { int array[ARRLEN]; /* Allocated but not initialised, as not defined static or global. */ size_t i; for(i ...

C Language • Arrays

Printing the Contents of a File

cat file.txt will print the contents of a file. If the file contains non-ASCII characters, you can display those characters symbolically with cat -v. This can be quite useful for situations where control characters would otherwise be invisible. cat -v unicode.txt Very often, for interactive ...

Bash • Using cat

Executing the contents of another file

do './config.pl'; This will read in the contents of the config.pl file and execute it. (See also: perldoc -f do.) N.B.: Avoid do unless golfing or something as there is no error checking. For including library modules, use require or use.

Perl Language • Packages and modules

Listing Directory Contents with readdir or readdirSync

const fs = require('fs'); // Read the contents of the directory /usr/local/bin asynchronously. // The callback will be invoked once the operation has either completed // or failed. fs.readdir('/usr/local/bin', (err, files) => { // On error, show it and return if(err) return console.er...

Node.js • Filesystem I/O

Horizontally aligning contents

Swift //Align contents to the left of the frame button.contentHorizontalAlignment = .left //Align contents to the right of the frame button.contentHorizontalAlignment = .right //Align contents to the center of the frame button.contentHorizontalAlignment = .center //Make contents fill th...

iOS • UIButton

Basic usage getting content between buffers and clearing

Output buffering allows you to store any textual content (Text, HTML) in a variable and send to the browser as one piece at the end of your script. By default, php sends your content as it interprets it. <?php // Turn on output buffering ob_start(); // Print some output to the buffer (via...

PHP • Output Buffering

Running output buffer before any content

ob_start(); $user_count = 0; foreach( $users as $user ) { if( $user['access'] != 7 ) { continue; } ?> <li class="users user-<?php echo $user['id']; ?>"> <a href="<?php echo $user['link']; ?>"> <?php echo $user...

PHP • Output Buffering

Using Output buffer to store contents in a file, useful for reports, invoices etc

<?php ob_start(); ?> <html> <head> <title>Example invoice</title> </head> <body> <h1>Invoice #0000</h1> <h2>Cost: &pound;15,000</h2> ... </body> </html> <?php...

PHP • Output Buffering

Pipe in a cell content

If you want to use a pipe character (|) in the content of a cell you'll need to escape it with a backslash. Column | Column ------ | ------ \| Cell \|| \| Cell \| This results in the following table: ColumnColumn| Cell || Cell |

Markdown • Tables

Reading all contents of standard input into a string

main = do input <- getContents putStr input Input: This is an example sentence. And this one is, too! Output: This is an example sentence. And this one is, too! Note: This program will actually print parts of the output before all of the input has been fully read in. This m...

Haskell Language • IO

Copying contents from one slice to another slice

If you wish to copy the contents of a slice into an initially empty slice, following steps can be taken to accomplish it- Create the source slice: var sourceSlice []interface{} = []interface{}{"Hello",5.10,"World",true} Create the destination slice, with: Length =...

Go • Slices

Getting library content types using the library name

function getContentTypes(site_url,name_of_the_library){ var ctx = new SP.ClientContext(site_url); var web = ctx.get_web(); list = web.get_lists().getByTitle(name_of_the_library); // You can include any property of the SP.ContentType object (sp.js), for this example we are just ...

sharepoint • Working with JavaScript Client Object Model (JSOM)

Middleware to set response ContentType

The idea is to use HttpContext.Response.OnStarting callback, as this is the last event that is fired before the headers are sent. Add the following to your middleware Invoke method. public async Task Invoke(HttpContext context) { context.Response.OnStarting((state) => { if ...

asp.net-core • Middleware

Contenteditable Attribute

<p contenteditable>This is an editable paragraph.</p> Upon clicking on the paragraph, the content of it can be edited similar to an input text field. When the contenteditable attribute is not set on an element, the element will inherit it from its parent. So all child text of a conte...

HTML • Global Attributes

Scroll View Content Size

The contentSize property must be set to the size of the scrollable content. This specifies the size of the scrollable area. Scrolling is visible when scrollable area i.e. contentSize is larger than the UIScrollView frame size. With Autolayout: When the scroll view's content is set up using autolay...

iOS • UIScrollView

Calculate Content Bounds (for i.e. dynamic cell heights)

A common use case for wanting to calculate the frame a label will take up is for sizing table view cells appropriately. The recommended way of doing this is using the NSString method boundingRectWithSize:options:attributes:context:. options takes String drawing options: NSStringDrawingUsesLineFr...

iOS • UILabel

Listening to Changes of contenteditable

Events that work with most form elements (e.g., change, keydown, keyup, keypress) do not work with contenteditable. Instead, you can listen to changes of contenteditable contents with the input event. Assuming contenteditableHtmlElement is a JS DOM object that is contenteditable: contenteditableH...

JavaScript • execCommand and contenteditable