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A block of arbitrary information, or resource for storing information, accessible by the string-based name or path. Files are available to computer programs and are usually based on some kind of persistent storage.

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Comparing same-size files and reporting on the differences byte-by-byte

I created a small Python utility to analyze multiple same-size files and report on the difference byte-by-byte (i.e. Hamming distance, not Levenshtein distance.) I am planning to extend the ...
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Script to auto-generate Markdown tables of contents

I would greatly appreciate feedback on the enclosed script, which auto-generates a Markdown table of contents for Github-flavoured Markdown, with respect to: Consistency with Ruby idiom & style ...
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File operations using Groovy

The idea is to read a file - "data" - and write the information to a new file - "output" - only if it meets the criteria (if the resource usage is more than a configured threshold). Content of the ...
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Android APP FTP downloading file implementation in Java

This is a follow-up question for Android APP connect to FTP server in Java and Android APP FTP uploading file implementation in Java. I am attempting to perform the download operation to specified FTP ...
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Simple beginner Rust CLI file reader that prints to stdout

Q: Am I approaching writing idiomatic Rust code correctly? Hi CodeReview, I'm a beginner Rustacean coming from Python going through Rust books (The Rust Book, Rust in Action). A lot of the beginner ...
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Simple one-time pad in Rust

I am new to rust and to start learning the language I decided to implement a simple one-time pad encryption program. The part I am least sure about is the reading and writing from the files. Ideally ...
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Parsing version from Cargo.toml

I want to get version from Cargo.toml and use the value inside my app. Here is a function I wrote: ...
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TI-Basic file manager

Tested on my TI-84 Plus CE. Variables: F: Stores the file listing's ID N: Stores the current file's ID ...
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CLI app to download a .gitignore file

I have written a simple app that adds gitignore files to the current working directory - it does this by reading files hosted on GitHub and then saving them (...
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Counting words in files - follow-up 2

Previous question: Counting words in files - follow-up I have fixed punctuation problems in my previous code by using template, because it is easy to understand and my focus on template mechanism. ...
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Simple diff utility in Java using OOP take 2

(See the previous iteration here.) After further revising my code, I have: com.github.coderodde.diff.Diff.java: ...
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Trie to index files and search for them

Basic idea (foo and foa are filenames): ...
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Sanitize input for a "robot on a grid" kata

I have the following piece of code which is FSI tested and works. However, I want to trim it as much as possible (not only the comments, which are there for my own future reference) and make it as ...
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Game involving finding words containing letters from a memorized list

I wrote this Java game where the user memorizes a list, gets given letters and needs to find a word that contains those letters. The player has only a few seconds to enter the word. Example: Program ...
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Sharing File (Content) without saving it before

I have a listview of PrivateFile objects which contain the fileId (int), fileName (String) ...
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File shredding (secure deletion) algorithm

Does anyone see anything wrong with this? I was considering using something like srm or wipe and use ...
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Handling multiple uploaded images in JavaScript

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Download a PDF and submit it as a print job

I have following Java code, which is to print PDF, but in a busy location this code is taking about 20 to 30 second delay before submitting to the hardware. get the PDF file via the network download ...
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Bitmap to base64 and writefile

I have the following code which does 2 things: Return a scanned fingerprint as base64 Store this print as bitmap While the code works most of the time, sometimes an invalid bitmap is saved (I can't ...
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Organising loops for parsing a text file

The following code is from a utility I've written for myself. It takes a file in this format: ...
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Upload multiple files in different formats and sizes from one HTML form

I have a html form with some text input fields and three file upload fields. two of them should be images and one should be a file (pdf). My code is working well but I feel this is not the proper OO ...
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Creating a reusable DictWriter context manager

I want to simplify the repetitive work of creating a DictWriter in a with context manager. So I created a ...
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sudoedit_enhanced written POSIX-ly (readlink possible problem?)

sudoedit_enhanced written POSIX-ly challenge While creating sudoedit_enhanced POSIX (apart from ...
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is there way to make faster to write to a file?

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Save protobuf-net serialized data with variable length to a file

My program gets continuously raw input from a stream (TCP), then process the data and output the data to a graph. It should also save the data to a file so it can be read afterwards. To archive this I ...
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Image upload filter for PHP

I am trying to improve my file upload handler filter. Environment Since any client-side validation is easily circumvented, there is none in this code, for ease of testing. Not even an ...
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