How should I compare Perl references?

References, by default, numify to their addresses. Those reference addresses are unique for every reference, so it can often be used in equality checks. However, in the snippet you showed, you’d first have to make sure that both $ref1 and $ref2 are actually references. Otherwise you might get incorrect results due to regular scalars containing … Read more

Compare Date object with a TimeStamp in Java

tl;dr Use the modern java.time classes instead of those troublesome legacy date-time classes. myPreparedStatement.setObject( … , Instant.now() // Capture the current moment in UTC. ) Old Date-Time Classes Poorly Designed Put more bluntly, the java.sql.Timestamp/.Date/.Time classes are a hack, a bad hack. Like java.util.Date/.Calendar, they are the result of poor design choices. The java.sql types … Read more

Compare RGB colors in c#

What you are looking for is called Delta-E. http://www.colorwiki.com/wiki/Delta_E:_The_Color_Difference It is the distance between two colors in LAB color space. It is said that the human eye cannot distinguish colors below 1 DeltaE (I find that my eyes can find differences in colors below 1 DeltaE, each person is different.) There are 4 formulas for … Read more

Compare files and return only the differences using Notepad++

To substract two files in notepad++ (file1 – file2) you may follow this procedure: Recommended: If possible, remove duplicates on both files, specially if the files are big. To do this: Edit => Line operations => Sort Lines Lexicographically Ascending (do it on both files) Add —————————- as a footer on file1 (add at least … Read more

When you call remove(object o) on an arraylist, how does it compare objects?

ArrayList remove() relies on the objects implementation of the Equal method. If no implementation has been done then the object is removed by Object‘s implementation of Equals which indeed is the pointer comparison. From the documentation on ArrayList – More formally, removes the element with the lowest index i such that (o==null ? get(i)==null : … Read more

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