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How to Trim Whitespace in C#

By chco : 23 August 2010 - 10:50 AM
The following excerpt from Programming C# 4.0, Sixth Edition shows you how to trim extra whitespace from strings of text.You often (but not always) want to trim whitespace from the beginning and/or en...
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How to Format Numeric Strings in C# 4.0

By chco : 21 August 2010 - 04:14 PM
This excerpt from Programming C# 4.0, Sixth Edition covers the standard ways you can format numeric strings.In most instances, we’re not dreaming up a brand-new format for our numeric strings; if we...
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String and Characters in C#

By chco : 10 August 2010 - 01:10 PM
This excerpt from C# 4.0 Pocket Reference, Third Edition explains how to use strings and characters in C#. A list of escape sequence characters is given as well as a few ways to manipulate strings.C#&...
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How to Change Strings in Python

By adfm : 26 May 2010 - 10:34 AM
In Python, a string is an immutable sequence. In this excerpt from Mark Lutz's Learning Python you'll learn how to change strings using concatenation and slicing. You'll also be introduced to Python...
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How to Properly Capitalize a Title or Headline in Perl

By gnat : 20 October 2009 - 03:11 PM
If you have a string representing a headline, the title of book, or some other work that needs proper capitalization, use a variant of this tc( ) titlecasing function: INIT { our %nocap;...
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Exchange Values Without Using Temporary Variables in Perl

By gnat : 20 October 2009 - 02:03 PM
If you want to exchange the values of two scalar variables, but don't want to use a temporary variable, use list assignment to reorder the variables. ($VAR1, $VAR2) = ($VAR2, ...
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How to choose a string data type in MySQL

By pauldubois : 10 September 2009 - 03:04 PM
Choose the data type according to the characteristics of the information to be stored and how you need to use it. Consider questions such as these:Are the strings binary or nonbinary...
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How to handle special characters in identifiers in MySQL

By pauldubois : 10 September 2009 - 01:14 PM
If you need to construct SQL statements that refer to identifiers containing special characters, quote the identifiers so that they can be inserted safely into statement strings. The topic ca...
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