Category "function"

Postgres function to update old data and insert new data

I am trying to write a function that when my script pulls information from AD that it inserts new entries that don't exist and then update the ones that do exis

Trouble with output for Fantasy Game Inventory

I'm a beginner working on the Automate the boring stuff with Python book. I'm stuck on this practice problem. The instructions are as follows: List to Dictiona

view parameters passed to JavaScript function in Chrome

I'm using Timeline in Chrome Developer Tools to help write a userscript. The timeline shows which functions are called, but not what values are actually passed

Explain how this array transposing and flattening function works

Here this function in PHP that allows to merge any N amount of different length arrays in a fashion that output array will be in next order: Array1[0],Array2[0]

Does a constructor has a "type" in C++ since it is a special member function

I recently learnt that constructors do not have names in C++ and some other things about them. I am also aware that a function has a type in C++ called a functi

Generate a two-digit positive random number in JavaScript [closed]

How can I implement a simple function in JavaScript that generates a random positive number that consists of only two digits?

Using :: (scope resolution operator) in C++

I am learning C++ and I can never tell when I need to use :: . I do know that I need to use std:: in front of cout and cin. Does this mean that inside of the io

Javascript call() & apply() vs bind()?

I already know that apply and call are similar functions which set this (context of a function). The difference is with the way we send the arguments (manual vs

How compare CodeFunction.Access value?

I'm generating methods of partial classes. Using T4 Text Template At first, I'm looking for extra implemented methods in the interface. After that, reading acc

str_word_count() function doesn't display Arabic language properly

I've made the next function to return a specific number of words from a text: function brief_text($text, $num_words = 50) { $words = str_word_count($text,

anchor jumping by using javascript

I have a question that will be found very often. The problem is that nowhere can be found an explicit solution. I have two problems regarding anchors. The mai

Accessing private fields and function from main

I've programmed only in Java in my career and started using C++ since 10 days, so this question may seem strange to many of you. I have defined the structure of

Is it possible to program your own kbhit() in C?

I took a class of programming at my university and I am working on some program. I want to know if it is possible to program my own kbhit() function. And if it

Similarity of documents function

I am trying to create matrices for cosine and euclidean distances of a document. not too sure how I would approach this question. Any advice would be appreciate

Writing A Recursive Function That Counts Zeros

It is possible to count the number of zeros in an integer through a recursive method that takes a single int parameter and returns the number of zeros the param

Destructors but for functions

New to c++ and possibly a really stupid question, but is there something like a destructor but for functions? I making a sort of game and as you can see that th

Javascript vertical scrolling function

I am trying to detect a scroll on my page using JavaScript. So that I can change classes and attributes of some elements when user has scrolled certain amount o

Generating isotropic steps with lengths distributed as exp(-x/lambda)

I'm writing a code about radiation transportation and have generated isotropic vectors as shown by my code. I'm now unsure about how to generate isotropic steps

Crawling Twitter API for specific tweets

I am trying to crawl twitter for specific keywords, which I have made into the array keywords = ["art", "railway", "neck"] I am trying to search for these wo

Docstrings when nothing is returned

What is the docstring convention when a function doesn't return anything? For example: def f(x): """Prints the element given as input Args: x