Results for “Transforming text”
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Copy a string with a guaranteed terminator
Arduino / C: Reserve one character for the terminator when copying a bounded string.
Arduino / C✓ Tested
Count matching lines
Linux Commands: Use grep -c to count matching lines rather than individual occurrences.
Linux Commands✓ Tested
Count Unicode code points
Java: Use codePointCount when supplementary characters should count as one rather than two UTF-16 units.
Java✓ Tested
Count Unicode code points in a string
JavaScript: String iteration combines surrogate pairs, unlike the UTF-16 length property.
JavaScript✓ Tested
Count Unicode code points in a string
TypeScript: String iteration combines surrogate pairs, unlike the UTF-16 length property.
TypeScript✓ Tested
Detect truncated formatted output
Arduino / C: snprintf returns the length it would have written, excluding the null terminator.
Arduino / C✓ Tested
Discard incidental output from a setup command
PowerShell: Out-Null prevents setup objects from becoming part of a function or script’s useful result.
PowerShell✓ Tested
Encode and decode binary data as Base64
Python: Use Base64 when a text format must carry bytes; it is encoding, not encryption.
Python✓ Tested
Enumerate Unicode code points
C#: EnumerateRunes combines surrogate pairs into Unicode scalar values.
C#✓ Tested
Exclude matching lines
Linux Commands: Use grep -v to retain lines that do not start with a comment marker.
Linux Commands✓ Tested
Extract a known substring
PowerShell: Substring uses a zero-based starting index and a character count.
PowerShell✓ Tested
Extract a section of an Arduino String
Arduino / C: substring includes the start index and excludes the end index.
Arduino / C✓ Tested