This post gives the answer to last week’s Problem of the Week. First of all, I have to admit that this problem actually came from the Quicker Maths blog. This blog actually pulled the problem from IBM’s Ponder this section. First of all, in order to write the equation algebraicly, Read more…
Something that you may not know about PHP and many other languages is that it provides heredoc syntax to build strings. What does this mean? Check out the following: The above puts the following into the $myCode variable as a string: You can use this syntax in many different languages: Read more…
One of the things that I love about string manipulation is the existence of regular expressions. For this reason, I have decided to share a few examples that may help those who are learning about regular expressions so that can understand them a bit better. JavaScript – General Variable Name Read more…
New & Improved Definition Last year I wrote a version of this function which was to mimic the Python expandtabs function. The funny thing is I didn’t remember that I wrote the function in the first place. Therefore while working on a project, I wrote the following function which is Read more…
I personally love both JavaScript and Python. For this reason, from time to time I like to port functions that are available in Python, over to JavaScript. The following is a port of the expandTabs function. The biggest difference between this JavaScript version and the Python version is the limitation Read more…