February 14, 2002

In any decent sized application, one of the most common activities is string manipulation at one level or another. One of the most common problems with string manipulation is the

swap(int & a, int & b){a ^= b;b ^= a;a ^= b;}

Some of the most irritating and difficult-to-trace bugs are the ones relating to uninitialized or inaccessible memory locations. This problem becomes especially severe when dealing with parameters that are pointers.

Sometimes it’s useful to get information from a text property file, especially when you want to change values inside classes without recompiling them every time. A simple (and fast) way

You can do this without using the classpath directive at the command line. How? Easy! Just write a launcher! Here’s the code: /* Allow you to type “java QuickRunner” instead

Send an email without using JavaMail API, by using the Java Core packages(java.net.*;java.io.*) to pass three parameters. The first parameter is the SMTP mail server, the second parameter is the

Start the JVM with the “-D” switch to pass properties to the application and read them with the System.getProperty() method. SET myvar = Hello world Set myothervar = nothing java

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Many programmers are familiar with declaring an object variable in class modules and other places to capture events from a form and handle them in a generic way: Private WithEvents