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Char* hex string to BYTE Array

The idea is that i want any size string to put the corresponding hex value into a byte array. I've seen a million ways to do it. Some of them didn't look to clean. My needs are speed over memory, so ...
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Implement numbering scheme like A,B,C… AA,AB,… AAA…, similar to converting a number to radix26

I want to implement numbering scheme like Microsoft Word uses for numbering. first one gets = A,next is B, next is C, .... then AA, then AB,....and so on. as shown below A B C . . AA ...
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Help me improve my attempt to slap strong types on top of COM and ODBC

I am stuck with some old API that involves COM and ODBC, and I cannot switch to cool things like MEF or entity framework. So, I am working on some wrappers that will help me write less code and also ...
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Converting hex character to decimal

Is it possible to make this code more efficient & elegant? int HexToDecimal(char ch) { ch = tolower(ch); if ('a' <= ch && ch <= 'f') { return ch - 'a' + 10; ...
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Best C# idiom to convert the items on an object array to a string?

I have something akin to object[] values = getValues(); string renderedValues = string.Join("-", Array.ConvertAll<object,string>(values, new ...
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Converting binary value from BitArray to an int and back in C#

What I am creating is essentially a binary clock face with touch input for setting values as well as displaying - so I need to convert both ways between an int and a binary sequence in a BitArray. I ...
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Javascript conversion of datetime strings in PHP pages to user's timezone

I am working on an PHP/MySQL application that uses a different timezone from the server it runs on, and neither of the timezones are UTC. I'm converting displayed times to be in the user's timezone, ...
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Conversion from/to roman numbers

I wrote as an exercise in Test-Driven Development a piece of Python code that contains two functions: roman2dec(roman), that converts a roman number (string) into a decimal number (int) ...
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Use of a regex stored inside yaml file

I installed settingslogic and in the configuration file I put the regex for the email as follows #config/settings.yml defaults: &defaults email_regex: ...