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Some languages are hard to get started in. FASM appears to be one of these languages because the documentation is not detailed enough for a beginner. That's a shame because FASM is (in my opinion) one of the better assemblers. The following snippet is a simple Hello, world! program which …

Just in time, a short Python code snippet to calculate the date of Easter Sunday of a given year. This can be expanded to calculate the important date of Mardi Gras too.

I took the data of an old State Trivia game and applied it to Python. The data forms a series of lists with matching indexes. One example of how to ask a trivia question, present four possible answers, and how to evaluate the correct answer is given. You can expand …

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You can use any of the commented constants to perform the explained function. You might need to adjust the process privilege on NT based OSes.

Assumes the presence of Memo1 on Form1.

Works on W2K and above

In case there are mote than one NIC (Network Interface Card) the coe gives the MAC of the first adapter. You can change the 0 on the line qoted below to take the MAC of other NICs if present. "Result := GetAdapterInfo(AdapterList.lana[0]) "

This code disables font smoothing for a TLabel component. Can easily be converted for other VCL controls. Loren Soth

Beginner C++ - A simple calculator writen in C++, compiled on Tubo C++ v4.5 & Borland C++ 5.5. The user inputs numbers & chooses '+','-','*'/' The operator is tested. If correct the appropriate sum is preformed.

Uses the API to get the regional short date format from the PC

Question of wordcount program similar to Unix wc came up in the forum and I worked on a solution. Program shows number of lines, number of words, number of characters and text file's name. Good learning for commandline, file and string handling.

The Relative of push is pop. Pop removes the last item in an Array, and returns the value into a single (scalar) variable. Again, due To VB Limitations, this one works on strings.

Simple Function To Simulate The Push Command, due to VB's limitations, This one is Specific To Strings. (Simple enough to modify for integers or variants, etc)

This is a little code for a shell that allows for simple redirection and multiple yes! MULTIPLE piping abilities. It is slightly glitched for background processes, and this is only my second program written with C/C++ so it looks to be quite inefficient, but the piping works pretty nicely. The …

The little program allows eye patients to test their color skills. They are given a random color rectangle by the computer and are then asked to match the color as closely as they can using sliders of the three basic colors. An evaluation button examines the closeness of the results.

This prog uses SQL Server's Master Databases xp_cmdshell stored procedure (Shell Commands) to send messages in a LAN.Make Sure the driver name is 'netsend' and it points to Master Database. Check and change the username and passwords in the Java Program also.Make sure you have sufficient priviledges to execute stored …

A list comprehension derives a new list from an existing list, and was adopted by Python from the Haskell language. This snippet tries to explain the development of list comprehension and shows a number of uses, including nested list comprehension. The benefits are simplicity (after an initial learning bump) and …

This program calculates the determinant of a square matrix of any order using a recursive function. Uses a square matrix struct and related functions.

count the number of occurrences of a sub-string in another string. a good example for learning how to make your own functions like strcpy, strlen and strcmp

Playing a wave file just got a whole lot easier.

Yet another angle at this same topic. [i]See also [url=http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet318.html]Parsing a String into Tokens Using strcspn, Part 1[/url] and [url=http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet443.html]Parsing a String into Tokens Using strcspn, Part 2[/url].[/i]

This snippet is a variation of the code in [url=http://69.93.117.133/code/snippet318.html][i] Parsing a String into Tokens Using strcspn, Part 1[/i][/url]. It uses canned strings rather than reading from a file. [i]See also [url=http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet444.html]Parsing a String into Tokens Using strcspn, Part 3[/url].[/i]

Regular expression pattern match in a string, I only checked with * as wild card, other wild card characters are easy implement but I havent done that. any problems you can email me @ [email]rramaswa@usc.edu[/email] platform - Unix/Linux, havent tested in windows, should'nt be a problem unless some standard header …

How might I write an implementation in C of a case-insensitive version of the standard library function [inlinecode]strcmp[/inlinecode]? Here's how I might. This this is often available as a nonstandard function that may be called [inlinecode]stricmp[/inlinecode], [inlinecode]_stricmp[/inlinecode], [inlinecode]strcmpi[/inlinecode], or [inlinecode]strcasecmp[/inlinecode]. [i]See also [url=http://69.93.117.133/code/misc.php?action=edit&codeid=316]Strings: Comparing[/url].[/i]

Code to empty the windows recycle bin

This program outputs a given string word-wrapped to N columns in console. The program can also handle words whose length is greater than N.

I created a bowling game, Which for the most part works correctly. I toiled for hours trying to figure out how to do the scoring so i gave up. Its fairly simple code so not much of a description needed.

Shows how to create a simple 'Process Manager'. and control processes

The lowly soundcard in your PC has fascinating capabilities. All you need is a module that can handle the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI). Tell the soundcard which instrument to play, specify the musical note, the duration, the beat and other things. The sound chip makes 127 instruments available and …

Heres a precise and short way to permute any word without pointers

Boo is new, well at least relatively new. If you are familiar with Python and C#, you can feel right at home. Most of Boo is written in C# by a Python devotee. Boo has static typing, but also mimics dynamic typing by inference. This way you are not in …

So you want random numbers with negative values... How do you get them? This is a simple method to do so.

Break down an amount into units of dollars and cents.

This class implements a mechanism to encapsulate a selector. A selector is method signature descriptor. It is an easy way to create what may be called function pointers like in C language. I took my inspiration from Objective-C.

A very versatile, fully customizable graph drawing program using the TurboC++ graphics library. The DrawGraph() functions does the actual graph drawing. It can be used to draw graphs of BOTH CARTESIAN AS WELL AS POLAR functions. You'll need to pass the math. function to the program. The main() demonstrates the …

This is an Ada package that simply waits for the user to press the enter key. (If they enter anything else it's simply ignored.)

The first of a few examples I'd like to contribute.

Program to demonstrate pattern-searching of strings. This program interactively builds a list of words and searches for words in the list that match a specified pattern. The pattern can include wildcard chars * and ?. Eg : The query s* gives the words in the list which start with s. …

Powers of 2 are closly linked to the position values of binary numbers. The most right position is 2 to the power 0 = 1 then goes to the left with 2 to the power 1 = 2, 2 to the power 2 = 4 and such. If you want …

Well its fairly self explanatory, its a program that shows that calculates the hypotenuse using the pythagorean theorum, It displays the values of the sides and shows a crappy ascii art right triangle with the values input and the later found values

The wx.ComboBox is a combination of an editbox and a (dropdown) listbox. It let's the user slect an item from the listbox and puts it in the editbox. In this snippet we use two comboboxes, each used to select an area unit of measurement. Once selected, an area value can …

Ok I greatly modified a tutorial to have a completely different interface, a highscore list and a little tiny really rare easter egg. to get the highscore list. I want to figure out how to sort the highscore list if it is possible. And dont worry about it freaking out, …

Not much excitement in that standard wxPython empty window icon. It's time you put a more picturesque icon up there. This snippet shows you how to use an embedded icon or your own icon you have as an icon file in your working folder. Actually, the embedded icon is written …

In this experiment we call the paint event and establish a device context to draw a rectangle and fill it with the color set by the brush. Actually, we will draw 99 random sized and random colored rectangles with a small time delay. Don't worry, it will be faster than …

How might I write an implementation in C of the standard library function [inlinecode]strcat[/inlinecode]? Here's how I might.

The wxPython widget wx.Gauge is commonly called a progress bar. In this code snippet I have bound the wx.Gauge to a wx.Slider, as you move the slider so do the indicating bars of the gauge. A second method is explored too, here the gauge indicates the progress of a timed …

Using a wxPython GUI program to find the position of the mouse when clicked within the frame/window. Also sets the color of the frame and changes the cursor to a pencil. The title bar of the frame displays the coordinates of the mouse position.

Suppose you are a medical researcher studying diabetes. Your boss has given you a big chart of data from diabetes patients. Each row of the chart has information for one patient. Each column of the chart is a health-related statistic, such as height, weight, age, blood pressure, cholesterol level, etc. …

Create a dictionary with char:count pairs, change the dictionary to a list of (char, count) tuples, sort the list by character and display the result. That's all there is to counting and displaying the characters in a given string. Just a few lines of Python code.