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In Swing, the password field has a getPassword() (returns char[]) method instead of the usual getText() (returns String) method. Similarly, I have com
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Show literal specification of characters and strings. If supported, show how verbatim strings (quotes where escape sequences are quoted literally) and
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What’s the most elegant way to split a string in C++? The string can be assumed to be composed of words separated by whitespace. (Note that I’m
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If you have java.io.InputStream object, how should you process that object and produce a String? Suppose I have an InputStream that contains te
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A here document (or "heredoc") is a way of specifying a text block, preserving the line breaks, indentation and other whitespace within the text. D
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This task is about incrementing a numerical string. // standard C++ string stream operators #include <cstdlib> #include <string> #in
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In bioinformatics, long character strings are often encoded in a format called FASTA. A FASTA file can contain several strings, each identified by a n
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Languages may have features for dealing specifically with empty strings (those containing no characters). The task is to: Demonstrate how to a
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This task is about copying a string. Where it is relevant, distinguish between copying the contents of a string versus making an additional reference
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