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‘ Takes a first and last name and converts it to the format LastName, FirstNameFunction FormatFullName(ByVal FirstName As String, ByVal LastName As String) As _ String FirstName = Trim$(FirstName) LastName
‘ change a sentence in CamelCase to a sentence with spaces’ for example ConvertCamelCase(“FileExchange”) => “File Exchange”Public Function ConvertCamelCase(ByVal Value As String) As String Dim i As Long For i
‘ Format a credit card numberFunction FormatCreditCard(ByVal text As String) As String Dim i As Long ‘ ignore empty strings If Len(text) = 0 Then Exit Function ‘ get rid
Question: I’ve done a lot of programming in Java, and am relatively new to C++. One of the things that annoys me (just personally), is using a prefix such as
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
We can speed up the data transfer between servlet and applet in a Web application by compressing the data transferred between them. The example below demonstrates how this is done:
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
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
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 **
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
When you call a function through a pointer to function, use that pointer as if it were the function itself, not a pointer. For example: #include char buff[10];void (*pf) (char
C++ doesn’t allow you to assign integer value to an enumeration directly: enum Direction (Up, Down};Direction dir;Dir=0; // error, can’t assign int to enum type However, you can use static_cast
Question: If I declare one variable in a servlet class, and if I create many instances of that servlet, what will be the status of that variable? Answer: If the
Question: Is there any difference between heap and free store in C++? Answer: The free store is a region of memory from which a program allocates dynamic memory using new.
Question: Is there a way to capture the last value (digit) of the system clock number and use that to generate a random number? Or look at system clock–find last
Question: Where is the best place to store .property files and .xml files for servlets/jsp? Right now I am using “user.home”, but there is a problem when you have multiple
Question: Can I cast an unsigned integer to an enumerator? If so, could you provide an example? Answer: You can use static_cast to cast an int to an enumerator. However,
Question: With the following: friend int operator == (const cs303Point& point0, const cs303Point& point1); in my .h file, how should the first line of the function definition look in the
Question: We have Informix-Online Dynamic Server Version 5.1 running on Sun 4 architecture machines (Sparc 4, Sparc 5, etc.). We plan to upgrade some machine to Ultra 2. I just
Question: I’m using Web Datablade and IIF to develop Web pages. I need validation (other than JavaScript) on date inputs. How can I validate dates on IIF, using SPL or
Question: I am trying to install Informix on Windows NT Server. After installation, I get the following error (after restarting): Columns: 80 Keyboard rate: 31 Keyboard delay: 1 Code page:
Question: I have a bad chunk in a dbspace that is bad and marked “down” by Informix. I don’t really care about the data in that chunk anyway, so I
Question: I am quite new as an Informix DBA. Our company is currently running the Informix 7.31 32-bit version on a 64-bit processor. They are thinking about upgrading to a
This control lets you know when the user performs any file system operation, such as file or folder creation, deletion, renaming, and so on. In additionm you can know when
‘ Evaluate the number of business days between two dates” Note that it doesn’t take Christmas, Easter and’ other holidays into accountFunction BusinessDateDiff(ByVal StartDate As Date, ByVal EndDate As Date,
While VB Timer functions is sufficiently precise for most tasks, it doesn’t provide the highest possible resolution most modern computer can provide. If your hardware supports high-resolution counters, you can
The Timer control is great when you want to periodically execute a piece of code while the program is doing something else. However, it also has a couple of shortcomings:
The GetTimeZoneInformation API returns a TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION variable that contains several pieces of information about system’s time date and time setting. The first Long value in this structure holds the “distance”
‘ add or subtract a number of business days from a date” Note that it doesn’t take Christmas, Easter and’ other holidays into accountFunction BusinessDateAdd(ByVal days As Long, ByVal StartDate
Question: Can I have multiple line headers on grids? Answer: No, you cannot have multiple line headers on grids in VFP, but you can simulate them by overlapping a shape










