Results for “Strings & text”
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Inspect a URI through typed properties
PowerShell: The Uri class separates URL components without manual string splitting.
PowerShell✓ Tested
Isolate a value with a different writing direction
HTML: Bdi isolates embedded user text so its direction does not reorder surrounding punctuation.
HTML✓ Tested
Iterate over all regular-expression matches
C++: A regex iterator yields successive matches without manually updating an offset.
C++✓ Tested
Join lines from two files side by side
Linux Commands: Use paste to pair lines by position with a chosen separator.
Linux Commands✓ Tested
Join rows in a chosen order
Aggregate text with STRING_AGG and WITHIN GROUP.
STRING_AGG✓ Tested
Join string slices
Join string slices in a complete Rust program using the standard library.
Rust✓ Tested
Join values with a delimiter
Concatenate rows in a specified order.
group_concat✓ Tested
Keep a serial message in flash memory
Arduino / C: The F macro keeps a literal out of scarce SRAM.
Arduino / C✓ Tested
List files containing a match
Linux Commands: Use grep -l when only the matching filenames are needed.
Linux Commands✓ Tested
Mark a longer quotation and its source
HTML: Blockquote marks quoted content; a visible source link remains useful because cite is metadata.
HTML✓ Tested
Mark a short quotation within a sentence
HTML: The q element identifies an inline quotation and allows native quotation marks.
HTML✓ Tested
Match a whole word
Linux Commands: Use grep -w to exclude a matching substring inside a longer word.
Linux Commands✓ Tested