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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 ...

Currently more and more built-in scalar functions are moved to functions modules, e.g. #9435. It avoids using a long enum of all built-in scalar functions which is hard to maintain. But for Comet, we ...

Abstract: In this paper we present an approach for real-time physically semi-realistic animation of strings which directly works on the positions. The main advantage of a position based dynamics is ...

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 ...

Buffer overrun exploits are bad, but having your program abort when it sees a long string isn't much better. There's a magic word you need to know to use the security-enhanced Microsoft C string ...

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 ...