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The following is a quick JavaScript function which will return the reverse of a string: The above function is a function that, once defined, will exist for every string. Here are some examples of how to use the above function: By the way, if you noticed the last two examples Read more…
The following is a quick JavaScript function which can determine if a string contains a substring: The above function is a function that, once defined, will exist for every string. The first parameter, which is the string to be found, is required. The second parameter, which is a boolean specifying Read more…
The following is a quick JavaScript function which can determine if a string starts with a substring: The above function is a function that, once defined, will exist for every string. The first parameter, which is the string to be found, is required. The second parameter, which is a boolean Read more…
The following is a quick JavaScript function which can determine if a string ends with a substring: The above function is a function that, once defined, will exist for every string. The first parameter, which is the string to be found, is required. The second parameter, which is a boolean Read more…
Click on the top-left rectangle above the row numbers and to the left of the column names so that all of the cells in the worksheet will be selected. Move the mouse over the line between two column names (column headers) and double-click it. This will AutoFit all of the Read more…
One of the things that I still find funny is when I ask a user to select all of the values in a column (not the column itself) and then user starts from the top and drags the selection until they reach the end. Of course, for a couple hundred Read more…
One of the things that many people try their best to do when deploying their JavaScript code to production, is use a minified version of the code. By that, I mean, remove the unnecessary white-space, extra symbols, and shorten the names of variables. If you don’t have much JavaScript, you Read more…
One of the things that I had to do recently was develop an example iReport which would exemplify how to achieve optional variables solely through the Java code within the JRXML file. My example consisted of creating a query that could serve as an example table named people which contained Read more…
ECMAScript 5 has introduced the new Function.prototype.bind() function which not only gives you the ability to natively bind a primitive or object to a function and also curry data for the function. Unfortunately, up to this point, nobody has written an implementation of this function to make it work on Read more…
One of the nice prototype functions available in the Prototype JS library is Function.prototype.delay(). The reason this is a great function is the fact that it actually allows you to call a function after a certain amount of time with the specified parameters. The following is an example of how Read more…