Return a Portion of a Character String

One of best and unknown built in string function included in .NET is String.Split(). It has come in quite handy for my in the last 2 years that I thought I'd share. Pretty basic example here...and for my first post, I thought I'd throw in a little File IO (for free of course)! This was written in .NET 2.0 and it will take little to no modification to make it work in 1.0/1.1.

Simple C++ program that creates a directory with the asked username, and places 2 files within the directory that contain the asked for username and the asked for password.

This is an edit of another snippet I made, but I have fixed the creation of the user's folder so it is named after the user.

FlyingIsFun1217

It is a simple converter which converts your number into roman number.
Due to roman numbers it can converts 4 digits.

This function returns a Date object being set at 12 A.M. It is useful for comparing dates where you don't know if they'll come set at the beginning of the day or not.

From a tutorial on building an RSS SAX parser on my website:

full article can be found here

Random String

Find File

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!

More often than not, if your trying to work out what's going wrong with your subclass of InputStream, why the character encoding is getting lost in your database, or your file format reader is failing, you'll need to dump a byte buffer out in a useable form.

Here's two methods, one which appends to a StringBuffer, one which simply prints out to System.out

Tim.

(NB: The line: sb.append( "n" ) ; SHOULD have a leading slash ie: sb.append( "\n" ) ; but the formatter seems to remove it...