Nifty way to swap two integers in C (C++) without using a temporary variable. Uses one line of code (3 assignments).

Using the Termios library, we can have the user enter a character on the keyboard, without it being displayed on the screen.

Prints the user's IP address and localtime on a web page.

I was coding a project that used arrays when the lack of a standard foreach in C/C++ got to me. So, I coded this little function to help me. It applies a function that returns int to each element of the array.

Databinding in asp.net 2.0 is takes very few lines of code.

Databinding in asp.net 2.0 takes very few lines of code. This example shows how to bind a CheckBoxList using a SqlDataSource.

Another pull from my growing-towards-beta CGI library: sgcgi_url_unescape().

Note the use strcpy, which is faster than the equivalent memmove()ing. To ensure 64-bit safety, I plan to rename this function and then conditionally compile it to point to either strcpy or a 64-bit-safe memmove() implementation of strcpy.

However, even though copy order isn't guaranteed for strcpy, on 16-bit and 32-bit systems, all known implementations copy byte-by-byte from lower addresses to higher addresses. Some 64-bit optimized compilers may copy 8-byte chunks, making the assumption of full linearity unstable at best.

I know it sounds like I'm justifying use of nonstandard code for convenience . . . *blush* . . . it's just something that putting in a -DPEDANTIC type of preprocessor flag could fix if broken, and its SO much faster!

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 . . . )

This class intended to collect TODO comments from java/c++/etc source files.

Example:

protected readFileData (String path) throws IOException {
// TODO: add try...catch block for IOException
InputStream is = new FileInputStream(path);
...
}


See also DirectoryScanner class.

Below is a bit of code which sets up drag and drop in a treeview. This is handy for if you have a list of items that can be sorted by the user.

Here is a bit of code to demonstrate how to do this. First create a new Windows executable project. Drop a TreeView component on the form, and let's name it 'myTree' for this demonstration. Go ahead and populate it with some dummy data; enough data to see the dragging and dropping in action. You will need a variable global to the form's scope.

private TreeNode sourceNode;

This is used to track the item we are dragging in our TreeView. Then define the event handlers listed below.