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GameMaker's native string_split() but using an open and close delimiter. This is useful for handling BBCode-style formatting tags etc. Returned array will have content found between the open and close ...

This project is a Java library for representing and manipulating various mathematical functions. It includes support for simple functions like constants and polynomials, composite functions, and ...

Abstract: Various types of Telugu verbs like transitive, intransitive, reflexive, causative, negative, interrogative, passive, etc., can be conjugated grammatically to their complete or incomplete ...

I recently wrote that the chapter in Effective Java devoted to exception handling has been one of the most influential software development chapters I have read. The value of this chapter was ...

Abstract: There are many test generation methods, but few of them consider the character strings. This paper proposes a method to generate test data for C programs with character strings and character ...

Thanks for the reply! I thought about that approach, but am on the fence about it (it just doesn't seem like a clean way to go, for whatever reason). My feeling is that there must be code in the JDK ...

Q: I am calling an external method in my application and want to intercept any exceptions it can possibly throw. Should I catch java.lang.Exception ? public class Main { public static void main (final ...