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I don't know about you guys, but I find that books with sad endings have the most impact and are the most memorable to me. What are your views? And what are the pro's and con's of each ending?
I'm only young and I know that I have a longgg way to go before...
Started by Immy on
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by 16 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at writingforums):
Sad endings can be more memorable -- but often they annoy....
Around two central characters, toward the end one characters kills himself, then as an ending the otherThe best ending for your story is the best, be it sad or happy.
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When creating an rss feed that shows a subset of a larger html doc (first x characters) I've run into an issue where some tags begin in the "first x characters" but the ending tag is outside that range. This can cause some fun problems if the consumer...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Where does the larger document come from?....
Not sure if this would work for your project, but I use HTML Tidy for this in FeedDemon .
It will clean it up and make it completely safe to retransmit .
If you use php, an excellent solution is HTMLPurifier.
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Is there an easy way to get the type of line ending that the current operating system uses?
Started by Evan Fosmark on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Apparently, PEP-278 states the following:
Any line ending in the input file.
Oh, I figured it out.
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I need a regex that matches all strings ending in .cs, but if they end in .g.cs they should not match. I'm using .NET regular expressions.
Started by Mark Heath on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
This will match the end if it's .cs but not .g.cs
(?<!\.g)\.cs$
For the entire string start.
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While editing .scm files it would be great if VIM would automatically put the ending brace ")" as soon as I start "(". How do I do this?
Started by kunjaan on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
I needed one too, and I already tried a few of ... .
Have a look at the relevant entry in the vimtips site .
There are many tips and plugins on the subject.
You can map the opening brace to your liking:
:imap ( ()<left>
Try to use AutoClose plugin .
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What's the best way to count the number of line in a file with awk, regardless of line-ending style (DOS/Windows, UNIX, etc.)?
Started by Tyson on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
How about
grep -c '^.*$' filename do a dos2unix or unix2dos on the file first, before using awk. .
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I want to output my floats without the ending zeros.
Example: float 3.570000 should be outputted as 3.57
and float 3. should be outputted as 3.0 (so here would be the exception!)
Started by Newbie on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
) { char *p, *end, *decimal, *nonzero; // Find the last decimal point and non zero character end = p?decimal:end, ".0" ); }
void tidyFloatRepresentation(char *s) { size_t end = strlen (s); size_t i = end - 1; char ....
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How do I write a PHP script that continues running, even after flushing out some text and ending the HTTP request? Is this possible?
Started by Jeremy Rudd on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Cleaning up" stuff at the end of a page, while displaying it as fast as possible to the user) , you'll.
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There is a Locator in SAX, and it keep track of the current location. However, when I call it in my startElement(), it always returns me the ending location of the xml tag.
How can I get the starting location of the tag? Is there any way to gracefully...
Started by Wing C. Chen on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
The locator in characters() points to the cloest ending point of the non tag information, the locator in endElement....
As long as we keep track of the ending position of your tags.
Points to the end of a series of white space and tab.
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I am trying to write a regex which match the first ending form tag.
<form.*name="loginForm".*>[^~]*</form>
The above regex matches till the second from ends i.e till line 8. but I want a regex that matches the immediate ending from tag in ...
Started by hemanth on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
You should NOT use regular expressions, but parse it with DOM:
Javascript:
var forms = document.getElementsByTagName... .
Regular expressions are not suitable for parsing non-regular languages like HTML .
Use a real parser like DOMDocument , SimpleXML or SimpleHTMLDOM .
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