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[8 replies] Last: either code tags, or pastebin.com. pastebin by far is really easy, as ... (by xitan)

by firedraco

Article Preview/Submit Question

I recently wrote an article on how to use tags, but I'm not sure how to "submit" it, does submit/preview automatically submit the article for you?

[4 replies] Last: Good point, misleading title FTL >_> (by firedraco)

by Disch

Multidimentional arrays are evil

Multidimentional arrays are evil. I see a lot of noobs get sucked into the vortex that is multidimentional (hereon MD) arrays. MD arrays are a "featur...

[8 replies] Last: How does it accomplish that? I tried to do something like that in a c... (by kempofighter)

by Disch

WinAPI: Being Unicode Friendly

Section 0) Introduction This article is to go over being Unicode Friendly in WinAPI. I don't normally encourage programming in WinAPI, since you're typ...

[10 replies] Last: wcout doesn't work like you'd expect. It's pretty much useless. I ... (by Disch)

by praeceps

main() never executing. an academic exercise

Frequently I have heard the question, "Can you write a program without main()?" The answer is yes... if you either delve into assembler or do some command line ...

[12 replies] Last: Oh. I haven't read anything in init; I've glanced at panic, printk and... (by chrisname)

by Null

Passwords

I'm going to show how to get passwords on windows and linux UNIX: One of the simplest ways is to use getpass() function: #include <cstdlib> #incl...

[4 replies] Last: Wouldn't that cause undefined behaviour? I thought you aren't allowed... (by chrisname)

by closed account S6k9GNh0

DLL Symbols

What is a DLL? A DLL is a dynamic-linking library. It acts as a shared object in which multiple programs can call the same DLL more than once. Why use...

[3 replies] Last: There aren't any big difference between DLL and EXE. Why? Because It'... (by Null)

by DrChill

Pig Latin XD

I completed it :) input text filter output piglatin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_latin #include <cstdlib> #include <iostream> #include <conio...

[1 reply] : #include <conio.h> :( Don't bother making main take arguments ... (by firedraco)

by chrisname

How to use the Conditional (ternary) operator: (1,2)

Note: It has become apparent that what is known as the ternary operator in C is in fact called the "Conditional Operator" in C++. Thank you, Grey Wolf. So I ...

[32 replies] Last: Voting sounds nice, maybe something like slashdot where low rated con... (by chrisname)

by guestgulkan

Template Instantiation

Template Instantiation I was looking around for something to wite a small article about and this seems to a good one. The forum gets a fair number of post ...

[4 replies] Last: Yes (unless you have a cool export-compliant compiler) (by Bazzy)

by turbozedd

C++ LAPACK

The following is a framework for using LAPACK with C++. For more information checkout the LAPACK forums: http://icl.cs.utk.edu/lapack-forum/ And the netl...

[7 replies] Last: than you for your answer.this case too hard for me now :D. i must lear... (by areyoupp)

by chrisname

How to parse command line parameters.

A simple tutorial on command line parameters, as some people may not know how it is done. -sec "What's the point?" The point is that with command-line param...

[19 replies] Last: oh, ok. (by chrisname)

by Duthomhas

Clear the screen (1,2)

This short article describes the method of clearing the console display of all text and positioning the text cursor in the home location (the upper-left corner)...

[37 replies] Last: :-) (by Duthomhas)

by BrianAberle

Object Oriented XML

I developed a base class that any MFC object, COM object, CORBA object or any custom object may derive from to provide the best XML support available. The fu...

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by marcoscb

Objectify design pattern

As is common in any programming language, the greatest boon usually also turns out to be the greatest bane. In C++, this comes in many forms. One of these is th...

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by Bazzy

Converting numbers to strings and strings to numbers

This question is asked quite often, so here is a way of doing it using stringstreams : number to string int Number = 123;//number to convert int a s...

[17 replies] Last: try with wstringstream: wstringstream wss; wss << 324545678; wstri... (by Bazzy)

by Duthomhas

Why system() is evil

So, you are here because everyone keeps telling you that things like system("PAUSE") and system("CLS") are bad. But no one really says why . Here's why....

[4 replies] Last: Er. The whitespace is optional. :D (by QWERTYman)

by jloundy

OutPut Array To Txt File

I have been scrolling around on forum to forum and i have noticed that many people are lost when comming to outputting an array and dealing with Random Numbers...

[2 replies] Last: yupp your completely right lol (by jloundy)

by Disch

Headers and Includes: Why and How (1,2)

************************************************* ** 0) Introduction ** ************************************************* Thi...

[25 replies] Last: Yes, that's exactly right. That used to be a paradigm some folks kept... (by jsmith)

by rootboy

Bit-Banging a counter

Here's a bit of code that I thought that I would share. It comes from a PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers) website, and it's an example of how to count to "n...

[2 replies] Last: You're right. I personally would never use something as obscure as thi... (by rootboy)

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