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‘ Do the check spelling on the input text’ Returns the input text with the corrections applied from the Word’s check-‘ spelling dialog’ Note: it requires a reference to the

Ever get annoyed that there’s no “direct mode” environment in Perl? Instead, you have to save your code to a file and then execute it everytime. To offset this, I

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USE PubS– Sort Each of PubName in Natural Alphabetic Order but push A’s to thelastselect * from publishersOrder by (CASE left(Pub_name,1) WHEN ‘A’ THEN 1000 ELSE ASCII(pub_name)END)–Sort Publishers By City

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Windows has the solution: the IsCharAlphaNumeric function, defined in User32.dll. This function uses the currently defined locale when performing comparisons, thereby allowing full use of accented characters. This sample demonstrates

This code highlights the cell of a JTable when the cell is moused over. It includes its own Table cell renderer and a Mouse motion listener, for getting the mouse

A constructor that takes a single argument is, by default, an implicit conversion operator, which converts its argument to an object of its class, the keyword “explicit” can be placed

‘ Insert an image into a RichTextBox, in the current position” This version takes in input the target RichTextBox and the path of the image ‘ to insert’ Example: InsertImageIntoRtb(RichTextBox1,

‘ Return a reference to the control with the specified name,’ searched into the specified container and its sub-controls’ Note: it requires the GetAllControls function” Example: get a reference to

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