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Check if a Given String Is a Palindrome

This code checks if a given string is a palindrome. Public Function IsPalindrome(strToCheck As String) As BooleanDim iForward As IntegerDim iBack As IntegerDim iMid As IntegerDim bPalindrome As BooleanIsPalindrome =

Use Explicit Template Instantiation

Instead of depending on the compiler to instantiate your template, youshould explicitly instantiate them using the following statement: template class vector; // for class instantiationtemplate int& vector::operator[] (int); // for

Exporting SQL Server Results to XML

Beginning with SQL Server 2000, Microsoft added support for SQL-XML interoperability. They did this by expanding some statements that we all know

Detecting Memory Leaks in Palm OS

Memory is precious in Palm OS, so you can’t afford any memory leaks in programs. Therefore, it’s very essential to detect any memory leaks. To do this put breakpoints in

Efficient Window Client Area Painting in VC++

Everybody knows that the WM_PAINT message is passed to a window whenever it needs to be painted. Usually, we code all of our painting instruction in the handler of WM_PAINT,

Improve Linear Searching

In order to increase the efficiency of your linear searching, add the item you are searching at the end of the list (either an array or linked list) and write

How Do ‘New’ and ‘Delete’ Actually Work?

The C++ runtime library includes a heap manager (subroutines responsible for maintaining the heap). The heap manager does bookkeeping to keep track of which parts of the heap have been

Dealing with Delimited Strings in T-SQL

This is a simple way to find out the word count in a comma delimited string: declare @mystring varchar(200)set @mystring=”vb,asp,sqlserver,html”select (len(@mystring)-len(replace(@mystring,’,’,”))+1) The following code will parse the delimited string: –variable

Naming a Thread

Debugging a multi-threaded program in Visual C++ may be difficult, especially when switching between multiple threads using the Debug/Threads menu. One efficient way to distinguish threads during debugging is to

Toggle Code Blocks with C Comments

If you find yourself constantly commenting and uncommenting bits of code during development, this tip could come in handy. Normally, you’d do something like this: #define /* #undef */ _FOObool

A More Enhanced Right() Function

Normally, the Right() Function VB returns only the Length specified from the End. If you want to extract the Right portion from any index of the String you have to

Another Form of Mid() Function

Sometimes, while performing String operations, you may want to extract part of the string from the main string–from the StartPosition to the EndPosition specified. The problem with the Mid() is

Setting Different HTTP Options

The following are the http properties for the HttpURLConnection:1) http.proxyHost (default: ) – defines the Proxy through which the request should be routed. 2) http.proxyPort (default: 80 if http.proxyHost specified)-

Delimit, Unparse, or Concatenate to Strings

A common operation in many applications requires you to concatenate a list of objects (usually strings) and separate them by commas, or some other character for display (the opposite of

Understanding Stack Trace

Stack trace is a collection of methods and objects that lists from the origin of the exception to the point where the nested call begins. class StackTrace{ StackTrace() { divideByzero();

Dynamic Class Loading

The java.lang.Class provides the forName() method which allows you to load a class dynamically. The argument to this method is the fully qualified name, i.e., the complete name of a

Mastering Top-N and OLAP Queries in DB2

ith the help of today’s Web integration and GUI tools, it’s now much easier to build reports without any programming. SQL provides GROUP BY and ORDER BY clauses, to collate

A simple expression evaluator

While any Windows user could pop up the Calculator accessory to perform any type of math calculations, it would be great if you could offer him or her the capability

Download a file with one API call

If you have Internet Explorer 5 or later version, you can use an API call to download a file from the Internet withouth displaying any message box. The following code

Combine Default attribute with other attributes

When building an ActiveX control, you can set a default property or method using the Procedure Attributes dialog box, after clicking on the Advanced button. However, if your default property

ClearRunHistory – Clear Windows Run history

‘ Clear the Run History’ Notes:’ 1) This routine requires the DeleteRegistryKey and CreateRegistryKey ‘ routines,’ you can find them in the CodeBank’ 2) The MRU list is kept available

Making Linked Lists More User-Friendly

inked lists are perhaps the most widely used data structure. Yet writing a linked list from scratch is an arduous task. In a previous 10-Minute Solution, you learned how to