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Tee-hee-hee. Hey, it's Javascript. You weren't expecting software engineering, were you?
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Regards,
Satips. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow;
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead;
Walk beside me, and just be my friend. - Albert Camus
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Many years ago I was working for a semi-govt agency here in Australia (who must remain nameless to protect myself and the guilty), and we had a contract programmer in to develop some portions of a system that was deployed (via CD in those days) to 87 sites across the state.
During testing, the client complained to me that if they performed a specific function the system would hang. I tested and tested and couldn't recreate it, so I finally asked them to step me through it over the phone while I ran the code in debug mode... Turns out they were adding an entire list of around 12500 items into a particular function to flag those items... Voila!! The code appeared to hang... I stepped into the code to find this particular gem:
for intCount = 1 to numItems
// Grab some data
for intCount2 = 1 to numItems
// do some processing
loop
loop
In essence, the system wasn't hanging, it was stepping through a nested loop - a cartesian product of the items in the list (12500 of them) - I calculated that the function would have eventually returned - after around 36 hours of processing...
<sigh> And I was a full-time staff member being paid far less than the contractor who inserted that gem into the code...
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Damian - Wondering why he has to be the one to sort the mess out!!
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Voila
Regards,
Sylvester G
sylvester_g_m@yahoo.com
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DamianS1973 wrote: And I was a full-time staff member being paid far less than the contractor who inserted that gem into the code...
Paid less per hour, but i bet you have medical benefits.... i bet he doesn't.... and when you add it up, it doesnt.
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Contractor are you? 
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It's not that common in Australia for employees to get medical benefits - just the sick leave. So when your breakfast decides it's going to post a return to the function call, you get to go home sick but you still have to pay to see the doctor (especially in Queensland).
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Lee Humphries wrote: your breakfast decides it's going to post a return to the function call,
OK I have to admit this awakened me from my post-launch Sleep(600000) session.
Alberto Bar-Noy
Project Manager
http://www.consist.co.il
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Your nick name length is making horror to CP
Regards,
Sylvester G
sylvester_g_m@yahoo.com
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Yes in hind sight, i guess it was not a very good decision i changed it to something more professional
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Sadly here in sunny Australia we don't (generally) get medical benefits etc... so no, I was nowhere near getting what he was on... never mind, I make more now to make up for it!! 
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Damian - Insert snappy one-liner here.
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Wow that was some real newbie mistake ! But what does that say about the organization that implemented his code without verification ?
Je vous salue du Québec !
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It is always a golden rule to take anything outside the loop. 
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That why i like C++, it is faster. ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
Greetings from Germany
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dude that funny.. you must go for contractor job then 
"Opinions are neither right nor wrong. I cannot change your opinion. I can, however, change what influences your opinion." - David Crow
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It's not too horrible, but while perusing an article I noticed this method of inserting quotes into a @-quoted string literal (text disguised to protect the guilty):
string x = @"Blah blah blah " + Convert.ToChar(34).ToString() + @" etc. " ;
I don't know why the author used @-quoted string literals in this case anyway.
-- modified at 16:27 Monday 18th June, 2007
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@-quoted literals are useful for two reasons: 1) when dealing with strings that contain backslashes; 2) when dealing with strings that contain CRLF characters. We've used them in scenario 2 for complicated queries to SQL Server CE, which does not support any form of stored program. Heck, a CREATE TABLE statement rapidly runs off the end of even the largest sensible screen width. You waste a few bytes of your program space on unnecessary spaces and tabs required to keep it all in line, but you don't keep having to concatenate.
Generally strings containing backslashes are file paths. Double-quote characters aren't valid in file paths. They're valid in SQL but only for delimiting identifiers, and the square brackets [] do the same job whether or not the quoted_identifier option is on.
The proper way to insert double-quotes into an @-quoted string literal in C# is of course just to double them up.
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Exactly, but the author didn't use the @-quoted string literal to do any of those things; no special characters, and still broke the string into parts and concatenated the parts.
I use them for SQL statements and scripts. They can also be useful with regular expressions.
But if you're going to use them, use them.
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I remember reading somewhere that .NET compilers optimize static string concatenation. But maybe I'm wrong.
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But this is not a static string concatenation because Convert.ToChar(34).ToString() isn't a constant, but a method call.
Only string concatenations that don't cause a compile error in const declarations are optimized by the compiler.
E.g.
const string name = "Bob";
const string test = "Hello " + name; // valid, concatenation happens at compile time
const string test2 = "Hello" + Convert.ToChar(32).ToString() + "Bob"; // invalid
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He most probably didn't understand what he was doing, that's sad.
Je vous salue du Québec !
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Placing an "@" does not produce any error for line break.
e.g. the following code would produce an error.
string x = "Blah blah blah"
+ Convert.Tochar(37) .ToString();
But the following would not
string x = @"Blah blah blah"
+ Convert.Tochar(37) .ToString();
(I am writing this without testing. So feel free to let me know if I am wrong.)
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as an assignment, i asked for a program that we've all been through, a function that returns weather or not a given number is prime.
in one case, i was given the following :
if(num== 1 || num== 2 || num== 3 || num== 5 || num== 7 || num== 11 || num== 13 || num== 17 || num== 19 || num== 23 || num== 29 || num== 31 || num== 37 || num== 41 || num== 43 || num== 47 || num== 53 || num== 59 || num== 61 || num== 67 || num== 71 || num== 73 || num== 79 || num== 83 || num== 89 || num== 97 || num== 101 || num== 103 || num== 107 || num== 109 || num== 113)
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
when i asked him why he stopped at 113
(since it was the only thing i thought of asking) he said, in a tired voice,
"I couldn't think of any more numbers"
do you, or do you not feel sorry for him?
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