...s before the revision on Feb 12, 2014 pertain only to the original answer, and many of the comments are wrong when associated with the revised answer. For example, Dennis Williamson's comment about bash builtin true on Jun 2, 2010 only applies to the original answer, not the revised. ...

...at should do the trick in O(n) * avg_line_len. Does anyone know such a commandline tool? – Droggl Nov 20 '13 at 17:27 ...

I have a number of strings similar to Current Level: 13.4 db. and I would like to extract just the floating point number. I say floating and not decimal as it's sometimes whole. Can RegEx do this or is there a better way? ...

What is the difference between creating cookies on the server and on the client? Are these called server side cookies and client side cookies? Is there a way to create cookies that can only be read on the server or on the client? ...

... Not all cultures use the same format for dates and decimal / currency values. This will matter for you when you are converting input values (read) that are stored as strings to DateTime, float, double or decimal. It will also matter if you try to format the aforementio...

...when the name was coined. This is commonly escaped as \r, abbreviated CR, and has ASCII value 13 or 0x0D. Linefeed means to advance downward to the next line; however, it has been repurposed and renamed. Used as "newline", it terminates lines (commonly confused with separating lines). This is co...

...nformation as a GET in the actual network communication between the client and server. If you need to pass information that is sensitive, your first line of defense would be to pass it using Secure HTTP. GET or query string posts are really good for information required for either bookmarking a p...

...rding to the manual for MySQL if the values are constant IN sorts the list and then uses a binary search. I would imagine that OR evaluates them one by one in no particular order. So IN is faster in some circumstances. The best way to know is to profile both on your database with your specific dat...

... Bottom Line Use either COUNT(field) or COUNT(*), and stick with it consistently, and if your database allows COUNT(tableHere) or COUNT(tableHere.*), use that. In short, don't use COUNT(1) for anything. It's a one-trick pony, which rarely does what you want, and in those ...

I have been reading some Redis docs and trying the tutorial at http://try.redis-db.com/ . So far, I can't see any difference between Redis and caching technologies like Velocity or the Enterprise Library Caching Framework ...