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Managed Extensions: Parsing CSV Files with Regular Expressions
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Many times a remote system will send a numeric value indicating the length of the data to be received in subsequent receive commands. However, when you start sending and receiving numeric data via sockets, you have to be aware of conversion issues in terms of what type of machine is on the other end of the connection.
Algorithm for Detecting Duplicate/Previously Encountered Strings
Algorithm for Detecting Duplicate/Previously Encountered Strings
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