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How to Extract a Substring in Excel Using FIND() and MID() Functions

How to Extract a Substring in Excel Using FIND() and MID() Functions Your email has been sent Learn how to use MID() and FIND() and then combine them to parse substrings from inconsistent data.
Ars Technica

Python question: string of binary to an actual binary number

I have a string of 1s and 0s that represents a binary number (e.g. '00101101'). How would I convert that to an actual num? If I use int(), Python assumes decimal and creates a number that's much, much ...
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How to use the new TEXTSPLIT() function in Microsoft Excel

How to use the new TEXTSPLIT() function in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent Working with strings in Microsoft Excel is common, whether you’re parsing, concatenating or returning a character ...
Visual Studio Magazine

4 New T-SQL Functions

SQL Server 2012 was released last April, making it the 11th major release of the product. Every new version has delivered new functionality that should excite developers, and this release is no ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Managing Functions in TypeScript

Because I'm doing this in TypeScript, I'm able to take advantage of the TypeScript datatyping support to specify a datatype for my cust parameter (it's expecting a Customer object) and what my ...
Embedded

Manipulating C strings safely

A software failure due to an invalid string of characters is common in any software system, but it is a critical one in an embedded software written in C language because it frequently manipulates ...