DevX Tips Bank: Input

HTML Input Placeholder Attribute

Language: Web, Level: Beginner: - Learn to use the input placeholder …

Using SendKeys in C#

Language: .NET, Expertise: Beginner - You can use SendKeys to send a …

Executing a Subprocess

When executing a subprocess in Java, remember to read both the stdout and stderr from the …

Declaring Destructors Virtual

Writing basic classes needs no more definition from the programmer than just declaring …

Send All Your System Messages To File

Often, while developing a system you want to debug it using System.out.println or …

System.out Vs. System.err

System.out leads the output to the standard output stream (normally mapped to the …

Shortcut for System.out.println()

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Sending a Cookie to a Server Through a HttpURLConnection

The java.net.HttpURLConnection class provides HTTP specific functionality. First you …

Right-Justification of Output

To right justify the output of cout, call the width() function with the size of the …

Alternatives to ios::nocreate and ios::noreplace

In pre-standard C++, certain implementations of <fstream.h> offered the flags …

Filtering Input in scanf()

You can force scanf() to read only specific characters from the input source while …

If Your Compiler Doesn't Support snprintf() Yet

Sometimes, sprintf() is unavoidable. For example, when compatibility with C is …

<iostream.h> or <iostream>?

Although the <iostream.h> library was deprecated for several years, many C++ users …

Octal and Hexadecimal Output

By default, cout displays integral values as decimal numbers. You can override this …

Controlling Floating Point Precision

You can override the default number of digits after the decimal point by calling the …