Answer cat testfile | awk ‘{ print length, $0 }’ | sort -n -s | cut -d” ” -f2- Or, to do your original (perhaps unintentional) sub-sorting of any equal-length lines: cat testfile | awk ‘{ print length, $0 }’ | sort -n | cut -d” ” -f2- In both cases, we have solved your … Read more
Not the greatest, but this should work: sed -i ‘Ns/.*/replacement-line/’ file.txt where N should be replaced by your target line number. This replaces the line in the original file. To save the changed text in a different file, drop the -i option: sed ‘Ns/.*/replacement-line/’ file.txt > new_file.txt
Place the following in your jQuery mouseover event handler: $(this).css(‘color’, ‘red’); To set both color and size at the same time: $(this).css({ ‘color’: ‘red’, ‘font-size’: ‘150%’ }); You can set any CSS attribute using the .css() jQuery function.
The advantages are that you can use functions like LEN and LEFT on nvarchar(max) and you cannot do that against ntext and text. It is also easier to work with nvarchar(max) than text where you had to use WRITETEXT and UPDATETEXT. Also, text, ntext, etc., are being deprecated (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187993.aspx)
Rendering outlines, unless you render only a dozen characters total, remains a “no go” due to the number of vertices needed per character to approximate curvature. Though there have been approaches to evaluate bezier curves in the pixel shader instead, these suffer from not being easily antialiased, which is trivial using a distance-map-textured quad, and … Read more
System.IO.File.WriteAllText (@”D:\path.txt”, contents); If the file exists, this overwrites it. If the file does not exist, this creates it. Please make sure you have appropriate privileges to write at the location, otherwise you will get an exception.
Here are two very short texts to compare: Julie loves me more than Linda loves me Jane likes me more than Julie loves me We want to know how similar these texts are, purely in terms of word counts (and ignoring word order). We begin by making a list of the words from both texts: … Read more
The VARCHAR(MAX) type is a replacement for TEXT. The basic difference is that a TEXT type will always store the data in a blob whereas the VARCHAR(MAX) type will attempt to store the data directly in the row unless it exceeds the 8k limitation and at that point it stores it in a blob. Using … Read more
Update: text-overflow: ellipsis is now supported as of Firefox 7 (released September 27th 2011). Yay! My original answer follows as a historical record. Justin Maxwell has cross browser CSS solution. It does come with the downside however of not allowing the text to be selected in Firefox. Check out his guest post on Matt Snider’s … Read more
Unfortunately there is no way to insert into the middle of a file without re-writing it. As previous posters have indicated, you can append to a file or overwrite part of it using seek but if you want to add stuff at the beginning or the middle, you’ll have to rewrite it. This is an … Read more