Can anyone here remember the syntax required to use a string variable as a filename for a data file? As in:<P>the variable is "fileName"<P><B>char fileName[16] = "";</B><P>and it is decided with ...

If you ever need to sort character strings stored in SQL Server fields, check out this demonstration of how to write a common sorting algorithm using SQL Server TSQL code. You are probably ...

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First ...

Sometimes you need a string that's filled with a specific number of characters. There are lots of ways to do that but the easiest is to use the New keyword with the String class because the New ...

C# provides the string.Split() method to split strings in .NET applications. However, we have a better alternative, the ReadOnlySpan<char>.Split() method, which accomplishes the same thing in a ...

You have a secret that can ruin your life. It's not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you're careless, 16 if you're cautious—that can reveal ...

The Java Scanner class provides methods that take String input and convert that String into any Java primitive type you might need, except for one: the char. The Java Scanner class provides the ...

A new character-linked bug is doing the rounds on Apple devices, causing iPhones, iPads, Macs and Apple Watches to crash when they receive a particular string of characters via a notification.

A bug in Apple’s CoreText rendering engine in iOS 6 and OS X 10.8 causes any apps that try to render a string of Arabic characters to crash on sight. The string of characters which can trigger ...