Gets a regular expression that'll search for any regexp pattern specified in the parameters.

I like to have these two methods in my toolbelt, even though it's syntactic sugar, I think it aids clarity.

Converts a string representation of a number with any base(binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal, up to base 36) to a long int.

This little function puts a string of a specified color and (centered) location. However, keep the word simple in mind. I purposfully not made it capable of supporting newlines.

By the way, this is my first snippet

I made this a little while back for a friend who was having trouble learning sockets. Below are snf.h, snferror.h and example.cpp (a little example).

The example opens a "web server" at port 8080 on the machine. However, it displays just one page.

Have fun!

Convert an ebcdic buffer to an ascii buffer.

Add this header after all your other headers. Compiles on standards compliant compilers.

Truncate String

Convert a password returned by JPasswordField::getPassword() into a String.

The modus operandi for this is similar to that taken by PHP's implementation of such functions. It's comparitively memory-intensive, but is much faster than running a whole bunch of tests.

Basically, you set a mask -- an array of 256 null bytes -- and set those that correspond to characters you wish to trim. Then, rather than having to test if a character is in the set of characters to trim(O(n), or linear time on *ws), you just test once (O(1), or unit time) to see if the byte in question is set.

And of course, to trim(), you just wrap trim() around both ltrim() and rtrim().

One point of caution: these functions trim in place, so copy strings before trimming them. (Of course, if you usually want access to both pre- and post-trimmed strings, you could always make these malloc() a new string and return a pointer to it . . . )