I was just testing an example from Numerical Methods in Engineering with Python . 4 Answers ...

I've been seeing that expression for over 10 years now. I've been trying to think what it's good for. Since I see it mostly in #defines, I assume it's good for inner scope variable declaration and for using breaks (instead of gotos.) ...

I'm trying to do something common enough: Parse user input in a shell script. If the user provided a valid integer, the script does one thing, and if not valid, it does something else. Trouble is, I haven't found an easy (and reasonably elegant) way of doing this - I don't want to have to pick it ap...

I have a string with which i want to replace any character that isn't a standard character or number such as (a-z or 0-9) with an asterisk. For example, "h^&ell`.,|o w]{+orld" is replaced with "h*ell*o*w*orld". Note that multiple characters such as "^&" get replaced with one asterisk. How would I go...

We have a little problem with fonts in PDF documents. In order to put the finger on the problem I'd like to inspect, which fonts are actually embedded in the pdf document and which are only referenced. Is there an easy (and cheap as in free) way to do that? ...

I like the window chrome on the new Office Suite and Visual Studio: 6 Answers 6 ...

I need to read the output of a command in my script into an array. The command is, for example: 3 Answers ...

PHP treats all arrays as associative, so there aren't any built in functions. Can anyone recommend a fairly efficient way to check if an array contains only numeric keys? ...

I've got an array of arrays, something like: 23 Answers 23 ...

This is a second-hand question from an OS development site, but it made me curious since I couldn't find a decent explanation anywhere. ...