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what decimal separators are in use around the world? (I have a few places between programs where I must exchange a floating point number as a string without a thousands separator.) yes, I know this isn't a fantastic idea...there are many ways this could be done but more serious improvements will need to come later...
I know of "," and "." but are there any others?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark
There you have a list of separators (basically ",", "." and " " in writing and also "'" and "˙" for handwriting), with many examples of all of them in different countries.
Since this is applied to programming, you should only worry about ",", "." and " ", that is, unless you are doing some OCR'ing.
Check this out: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DecimalPoint.html. It makes it sound like the decimal point, the decimal comma and the raised period are the only things in use.
You can also check out wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_point but it doesn't really say much else.
I checked this on .NET environment by looping all CultureInfos framework had (806). The result set was ".", "," and "/". The last one was Persian CultureInfo.
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I see a lot of codes like this:
if WA > SPACES
move WA to WA2
end-if
What are the advantages that this is checked? Is it more efficient to check if it is empty than to just move it anyways?
Additional information:
WA and WA2 can be simple structures (without fillers) but also just simple attributes. They are not redifined and typed as chars or structures of chars. They can be either low-values (semantically NULL) or have alphanumeric content.
Nobody can tell you what the actual reason is except for the people who coded it, but here is a very probable reason:
Usually this is accompanied with an ELSE that would cover what happens if the value is less than spaces, but in this case I would assume that what every happens to this data later is relying on that field NOT being LOW-VALUES or some funky non-displayable control character.
If I had to guess, I would assume that WA2 is initialized to spaces. So doing this check before the move ensures that nothing lower than spaces would be moved to that variable. Remember, less than spaces does not mean empty, it just means that hex values of that string are less than X'40' (so for example is the string was full of low values, it would be all X'00'. So I would guess that its more about ensuring that the data is valid than efficiency.
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I have some alphanumeric strings. From that I have to find out those strings which satisfy the following condition,
There should be only one character in the whole string and that should be 'e'
'e' should not present at the beginning or end of the string it should be present at the middle.
I want to pick strings like 43e4234,435345e5
I can do the same thing in ruby, but as i have huge number of strings i want to go with regular expression only
This should work:
/\A[^a-z]+e[^a-z]+\z/i
It means :
Beginning of the string
at least one non-letter
'e'
at least one non-letter
end of string
Here's an example :
https://regex101.com/r/H9oza7/1
Use /^[^a-z]+e[^a-z]+$/im if you want to match lines inside a string.
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I'm using Ruby 2.4. I have a string with letters and numbers, something like
str = "123abc234abb"
How do I find all the letters occurring after the last number in the string? For example, if I applied the function to the above, it would yield
abb
You could use a positive lookbehind:
"123abc234abb"[/(?<=\d)?[a-zA-Z]+\z/]
#=> "abb"
Try this
str.rpartition(/\d+/).last
How does this work?
rpartition splits the string into three parts, using reverse matching
last picks the post-match part from the three results
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What would a Regular Expression need to allow characters and numbers only, no special characters or spacing in asp.net mvc5?
You generally use ranges such as [a-z] and [0-9] to filter out just characters and numbers with an asterisk after it *
I don't have a copy of MVC 5 handy so I don't know what the particular syntax is.
A regex for that often looks like:
([0-9]|[A-Z]|[a-z])*
It will be very similar in asp.net or mvc, likely.
That searches for all alphabetic characters from a to z, and all numbers from 0 to 9. The asterisk makes it search for multiple characters and not just a single character at a time. The pipe character says "or". Search for characters upper case, or characters lower case, or numbers. The brackets help sort groups.
As I said though you will have to figure it out the specific syntax of your regex library that your programming language uses, as they can differ. There are perl style regexes, and many variations. The above is just a sample. You can test at:
http://regexstorm.net/tester
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I need a regular expression for my Ruby on Rails application for the password field.
Any character or number or symbols is allowed except space.
If this is client-side validation in Javascript (or any language other than Ruby), this expression will match a string with no whitespace (\S) at least one character (+), no max:
^\S+$
Ruby is the only language that uses multi-line mode by default, so the start-of-line ^ and end-of-line $ behave differently (they match once per input, no matter how many lines). So, if you are validating the input in Ruby, you'd need to use \A for start-of-line and \Z for end-of-line.
\A\S+\Z
All except spaces, do you need to narrow the results a bit more than this?
/[^ ]+/
This is without minimum length (or rather, with minimum length 1):
^\S+$
With minimum length 8:
^\S{7}\S+$
or, if your regex engine supports it (don't know why it wouldn't):
^\S{8,}$