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FormatPhoneNumber – Format a phone number

‘ Modify a phone-number to the format “XXX-XXXX” or “(XXX) XXX-XXXX”.Function FormatPhoneNumber(ByVal text As String) As String Dim i As Long ‘ ignore empty strings If Len(text) = 0 Then

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New and Delete

Question: In my class declaration I have a member: CSomeUsefulClass* m_one; In my implementation file, there is a function: DoMyThing(){CSomeUsefulClass* m_two;m_two = new CSomeUsefulClass(param1, param2);//blah…m_one = m_two;//do my thing…} then

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Rethrowing a Throwable Exception in Your Code

Use the fillInStackTrace() method to rethrow a Throwable type of exceptional condition in your code. This is useful if you want to rethrow a exception that occurred while using a

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Using dynamic_cast Properly

Programmers who use dynamic_cast sometime discover that their applications suffer from mysterious crashes although seemingly, they are bug free. In most cases, the reason is that they forgot to turn

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Escape Sequences

Certain special characters are represented as escape sequences. An escape sequence begins with a (backslash) followed by an alphanumeric character. For example, the escape sequence represents the newline character. Note

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Taking an Address of a Pointer

The sequence && is parsed as the logical AND operator. According to the Maximal Munch parsing principle, it’s never construed as two & (address of) operators: void func (char **