One of the things that I often end up doing is using JavaScript’s replace function with a regular expression and a callback function. Recently, though, I have been thinking about redeveloping an HTML application (HTA) that I made a long time ago for PCs. This HTA gave me the ability Read more…
Well before I had this site, I created a program which needed to order file names such as the following: Unfortunately, if you just use the normal {Array}.sort() without a callback function, the following will be the resulting order of the file names: As you can see, the 15th episode Read more…
One of the nice things that many people don’t know about JavaScript String replace() function is the fact that the second parameter can either be a string or a callback function. This callback function receives the entire matched substring, each parenthesized group (if not found the empty string is passed), Read more…
Sometimes you may have to use Textwrangler, SublimeText, Notepad++, or whatever IDE to search for a string which contains something commonly found outside of a string. For example, what if you want to find a string that in a Python file that had a hash symbol. In this case you Read more…
A few months ago I wrote a blog post about extensions to the Date.prototype. That post provided ways to add date parts and subtract date parts. Today’s post shows you how to use a generic Date.prototype.diff() function to find the difference between two dates and optionally return a string specifying Read more…
Have you ever had a column text for which you wish you could easily create links? For example, let’s say that you have a column of search words (or phrases) that should link to the Google page for each search. How would you do it? First of all, you would Read more…
Now Available in YourJS When dealing with numbers, at times for presentation’s sake, we need to add ordinals to numbers. For example, instead of today is the “September 28”, you may want to say that it is the “28th of September”. I wrote the following code snippet to easily add Read more…
Sometimes you write code that you wish you could totally rework. That is how I feel about jPaq’s Date.prototype.format(). The real issue I have with it is that the metacharacters are not intuitive. Therefore, I decided to write a new version of this function which is more intuitive. The following 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…
In PHP, there are a few ways in which you can specify a string which, if it contains a variable name, the corresponding value will replace it. This process is referred to as string expansion and is talked about here on PHP.net. Unfortunately, there is no real way to implement Read more…