July 29, 2000

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Creating help string for Enum constants

I’ve been trying to find a way to assign helpstrings for Enums in Visual Basic. The Class builder utility does that only for methods, events, and properties, but not for

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CombSort – A very efficient algorithm

‘ Comb Sort an array of any type” CombSort is faster than all but QuickSort and close to it.’ On the other hand, the code is much simpler than QuickSort’

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BTree – A class for managing binary trees

Option Explicit’ Class Name : BTree’ Author : John Holfelder’ Date : 17-Apr-2000 12:08 pm’ Description : This class is a way of creating Binary search’ trees. Instead of pointers

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Trimming a Vector

Suppose you create a vector and fill it with elements: vector MyVector;MyVector.reserve(20);for (int i=0 ; i tmp(MyVector);MyVector.swap(tmp); The vector temp has the same number of elements that MyVector has. By

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Use a String Object to Read Input Safely

One of the common sources for bugs and security risks is using a fixed size char array as a buffer for inputting data. For example: char buff[20];cout > buff; //

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The calloc() Function

The standard C library declares the function calloc() in as follows: void *calloc(size_t elements, size_t sz); calloc() allocates space for an array of elements, each of which occupies sz bytes