November 7, 2000

Question: In qbasic there is a command called LOCATE. What it does is locate where you want your output on the screen, eg: locate 1,1: meaning one down and one

Question: I’m reading approximately two million characters into an array. The max number of elements that Borland Turbo C++ 5.02 allows me is not enough. Can I declare this array

Many applications create temporary files that exist as long as the program is running and are later discarded. For example, a Web browser can store a list of pages that

To generate a unique filename that won’t conflict with any other files that exist in the current directory, use the tmpnam() function declared in as follows: char * tmpnam(char *

Another new feature in C99 is called designated initializers. Designated initializers enable you to initialize specific array elements without having to initialize the entire array. For example, suppose you have

The std::getline() functions reads data from an input stream and writes it to a string object. Unlike cin’s >> operator, getline() also reads white spaces, which makes it useful for

Suppose you receive an int from a remote host and you wish to convert it to big-endian order. Here is another portable solution for handling of big and littleendian data

You can never tell just what your users are going to do. Sometimes, their browser settings aren’t quite optimal for your site, and you are forced to cater to the