How can you use the "ctype.h" library in Swift to be able to use isAlpha or isSpace on characters? Or is there a better, Swift, way of doing it? This question is answered, but it doesn't seem to w...

In PHP, what is the best approach to let ctype_print() (or is this not possible?) work with UTF-8? Currently when I use it with some UTF-8 characters it fails, for example: ctype_print("Curaçao");...

Does C# have an equivalent to VB.NET's DirectCast? I am aware that it has () casts and the 'as' keyword, but those line up to CType and TryCast. To be clear, these keywords do the following; CType/...

I am an experienced C/C++/C# programmer who has just gotten into VB.NET. I generally use CType (and CInt, CBool, CStr) for casts because it is fewer characters and was the first way of casting whic...

Given string foo, I've written answers on how to use cctype's tolower to convert the characters to lowercase transform(cbegin(foo), cend(foo), begin(foo), static_cast<int (*)(int)>(tolower))...

Given: auto foo = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"s I can convert all the characters to lowercase by: use_facet<ctype<char>>(cout.getloc()).tolower(data(foo), next(data(foo), foo.size()));...

The PHP strtolower() function is supposed to convert strings to lowercase. But, it says in the PHP Manual (emphasis added): Returns string with all alphabetic characters converted to lowercase. ...

I am somewhat confused about presence of two seemingly identical VB.NET functions: CType(args) and Convert.ToType(args). I'm fairly new to .NET and VB in general, so I'm not quite sure whether one ...

Trying to install openmpi, read that: Could not determine if REAL*16 bit-matches C type Ran brew doctor, and it's giving me: Your system is raring to brew full output % brew install open-mpi...

Can anybody explain why does isdigit return 2048 if true? I am new to ctype.h library. #include <stdio.h> #include <ctype.h> int main() { char c = '9'; printf ("%d", isdigit(c)); re...

Traditionally, it was - strictly speaking - an error to pass a signed char to the ctype.h predicates because they were only defined for -1 to 255, so -128 to -2 could end up in reading outside arra...

I am getting the same error of these other two questions: ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function, but it does and Cython compiled C extension: ImportError: dynamic module does ...

Ever since I moved from VB6 to VB.NET somewhere in 2005, I've been using CType to do casting from one data type to another. I do this because it is simply faster to type, used to exist in VB6 and I...

When my PHP script is run with UTF-8 encoding, using non-ASCII characters, some PHP functions like strtolower() don't work. I could use mb_strtolower, but this script can be run on all sorts of di...

I am trying to convert the example provided in MSDN article Creating Dynamic Data Entry User Interfaces to C#, but am stuck at the following code: CType(dq, IUIBuildingBlock).QuestionText = reader...

Public Enum Fruit Red_Apple = 1 Oranges Ripe_Banana End Enum Private Sub InitCombosRegular() Dim d1 As New Dictionary(Of Int16, String) For Each e In [Enum].GetValues(GetType(Fruit)) d1.Add(...

I would like to be able to cast a value dynamically where the type is known only at runtime. Something like this: myvalue = CType(value, "String, Integer or Boolean") The string that contains th...