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C++ std::string short string optimization detection
If you have a string
std::string data("This is a string long enough so that it is not a short string");
Then you have a view onto that string:
std::string_view dataView(std::begin(...
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How does comparing string::npos to int work? [closed]
The code given below runs well. But, I wanted to know that how string::npos value is being compared to a small int. When b is a sub-string of a, findValue returns the sub-string's starting index. ...
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How to get from a url string the path to a file with a FOR loop in a Windows batch file?
Given is a string which is a url of a file, e.g. http://url.com/file.zip. I want to extract the path without the file name, i.e. http://url.com/.
My idea for doing this was to break down the string ...
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My code fails to compile with "no match for 'operator=='" error [closed]
I tried using the std::getline() function with a vector, and I want to make something that turns the following user input:
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AA AA
BB BB
CC CC
into the following output:
AA AA, BB BB, and CC CC [...
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Transforming a UTF-8 string in a const context
I have a function capable of translating UTF-8 characters into a custom 8-bit encoding:
const fn char_to_custom_encoding(c: char) -> u8;
I'd like to apply it at compile time to a string literal so ...
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Powershell script to replace a single carriage return [duplicate]
I am importing a web order CSV file into our in-house database. Usually it's ok but, if the user enters special delivery instructions, the csv file includes the string "help.", followed by ...
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Problem with characters and cmp in x86_64 assembly language (AT&T) [duplicate]
I'm having trouble writing what should be a simple character counting program. Here's the file with the .data section, as given by the author of Learn to Program with Assembly, which I'm following (I ...
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How to show true string in Access VBA Listbox
I have here a listbox showing data from tbl2026Test table (with ID as its own autonumber) by a simple listbox rowsource code:
Dim statInProg, statPClarif As String
statInProg = "In Progress"
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Pointers, referencing, and dereferencing static strings in assembly language
I'm writing a little toy program to try to help myself better understand this language (AT&T syntax, x86_64 assembly language). Consider this code, if you'll be so kind:
.section .data
mystring: ....
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Format() Entire Strings (Rather Than Characters)
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VBA has a Format() function which converts any value to its textual representation. This is useful for numbers and Dates and times, but it can also be used on Strings.
Debug.Print Format(&...
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Set placeholder in a String "equals" check
I've got two lists in my Java app: The first contains commands, the second the according valid replies, which I compare to the actual replies:
private final String[] commands = {"Do something&...
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How to slice first char from all iterable records in a string (converted from list)
I'm trying to remove the first/last two characters of each iterable record in a string (which I converted from a list and split into separate lines).
newString = "\n".join([str(item) for ...
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String manipulation in R, conditional capture and conditional append. ?regex solution
I am using hospital data. I want to make a regex expression in R and I am struggling to do this without using string manipulation outside of a single regex expression.
The string I want to search is:
&...
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Replace part of strings with corresponding values from table in R
I have a list of file names that encode some information as a time stamp. I would like to replace the time stamp with the appropriate corresponding information, while retaining the rest of the ...
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unable to remove leftover "()" string with get-childItem in windows powershell
I restored a large number of files in diverse folders from a hard drive, and they all included a string.
I removed this string in windows powershell using
get-childItem -recurse | Where {$_.name -like ...
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