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Post #109,189 by Arkadiy 7/11/03 8:45:08 AM Reply	This is not a friggin' function! This is an algorithm, more fundamental than quicksort in some way. I asked him to remove elements that match certain condition from the array, shift the rest of elements to the left and reset the array's size. If he can't recognize the algorithm or implement it, he is in trouble. -- Less Is More. In my book, About Face, I introduce over 50 powerful design axioms. This is one of them. --Alan Cooper. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Post #109,474 by a6l6e6x 7/13/03 2:14:06 PM Reply	Yep, the guy doesn't understand null terminated strings. A very basic C construct. Alex The tendency to turn human judgements into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. -- Georgia Harkness in "Conflicts in Religious Thought" (1929)
Post #109,491 by Ashton 7/13/03 8:51:38 PM Reply	Is that like the element which connotes "Social Security Benefits" with a maturation date a few years downstream from the present regime's tenure? IANAP but, sounds like a working example of a null terminated string. Just sorta feels right. (I guess this is the problem of learning programming n'stuff using a Dissembler) Ashton
Post #109,492 by Arkadiy 7/13/03 8:54:16 PM Reply	Nope, that's null-terminated chain. -- Less Is More. In my book, About Face, I introduce over 50 powerful design axioms. This is one of them. --Alan Cooper. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Post #109,494 by ben_tilly 7/13/03 8:58:22 PM Reply	Nope NUL is ASCII character 0, in C and C++ is put at the end of a string, kind of like a door stopper, to indicate where the string ends. If you don't understand this, you don't know what text is in C. If you don't know that, good luck in getting any text manipulation to work... Cheers, Ben "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link\|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html\|Stefano Mazzocchi]
Post #109,500 by FuManChu 7/13/03 9:23:22 PM Reply	Oh, is THAT how you reverse-engineer Microsoft code? With a Dissembler? :D I'm gonna go build my own theme park! With Blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the park!

Another "removeSpaces" from a job candidate - (Arkadiy) - (59) - July 10, 2003, 04:27:13 PM EDT

Bleurrrgh. -NT - (admin) - July 10, 2003, 04:37:24 PM EDT

You have a *great* need for a coder! :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - July 10, 2003, 05:00:52 PM EDT

LPRD sez: Able to chew and walk gum at the same time. :) -NT - (Arkadiy) - July 10, 2003, 05:45:42 PM EDT

Help me - (broomberg) - (30) - July 10, 2003, 05:54:48 PM EDT

You pass. - (Arkadiy) - (29) - July 10, 2003, 06:32:09 PM EDT

Depends. - (admin) - (15) - July 10, 2003, 06:40:06 PM EDT

Agreed. - (Yendor) - (9) - July 10, 2003, 06:46:39 PM EDT

Not buying it... - (gdaustin) - (8) - July 11, 2003, 12:37:46 AM EDT

And I'm not buying yours... - (Yendor) - (7) - July 11, 2003, 12:59:35 AM EDT

I'm saying that a Computer Science or MIS Grad Student - (gdaustin) - (6) - July 11, 2003, 08:28:00 AM EDT

This is not a friggin' function! - (Arkadiy) - (5) - July 11, 2003, 08:45:08 AM EDT

Yep, the guy doesn't understand null terminated strings. - (a6l6e6x) - (4) - July 13, 2003, 02:14:06 PM EDT

Is that like - (Ashton) - (3) - July 13, 2003, 08:51:38 PM EDT

Nope, that's null-terminated chain. -NT - (Arkadiy) - July 13, 2003, 08:54:16 PM EDT

Nope - (ben_tilly) - July 13, 2003, 08:58:22 PM EDT

Oh, is THAT how you reverse-engineer Microsoft code? - (FuManChu) - July 13, 2003, 09:23:22 PM EDT

Next time I see someone like that, - (Arkadiy) - (1) - July 10, 2003, 07:19:17 PM EDT

Next time you see someone like that - (tuberculosis) - July 11, 2003, 12:45:05 PM EDT

Also depends on the College - (Simon_Jester) - (2) - July 10, 2003, 10:25:10 PM EDT

He did not use STL because of the way I posed the question - (Arkadiy) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 08:46:32 AM EDT

ah - now I understand - (Simon_Jester) - July 11, 2003, 09:00:22 AM EDT

Phew - (broomberg) - (12) - July 10, 2003, 06:52:56 PM EDT

This may be too harsh - (Arkadiy) - (5) - July 10, 2003, 07:22:08 PM EDT

Exactly - (deSitter) - (3) - July 10, 2003, 08:59:35 PM EDT

This is not "pressure programming" - (Arkadiy) - (2) - July 11, 2003, 08:41:33 AM EDT

Yes, precisely - (deSitter) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 09:27:10 AM EDT

That particular algorithm has been really successful - (Arkadiy) - July 11, 2003, 09:57:31 AM EDT

They did not do this to juniors - (broomberg) - July 11, 2003, 07:49:40 PM EDT

Re: Phew - (deSitter) - July 10, 2003, 08:53:22 PM EDT

Insertion Sort - (gdaustin) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 12:00:29 AM EDT

Merge Sort is better - (tuberculosis) - July 11, 2003, 03:51:27 AM EDT

What a waste of time - (tuberculosis) - (2) - July 11, 2003, 03:37:19 AM EDT

I think qsort is a bad example. - (static) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 10:25:16 AM EDT

I'm trying hard to recall - (FuManChu) - July 11, 2003, 10:42:47 AM EDT

Re: Another "removeSpaces" from a job candidate - (orion) - July 10, 2003, 08:34:49 PM EDT

okies yankout spaces - (boxley) - (20) - July 10, 2003, 11:14:52 PM EDT

Re: okies yankout spaces - (gdaustin) - (19) - July 11, 2003, 12:02:20 AM EDT

In Visual BASIC 6.0 and above - (orion) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 12:06:01 AM EDT

Nope -NT - (Arkadiy) - July 11, 2003, 08:47:25 AM EDT

s/ //g -NT - (ben_tilly) - (6) - July 11, 2003, 12:40:36 AM EDT

(string findTokens: ' ') inject: '' into: [:a :b | a,b] -NT - (tuberculosis) - (3) - July 11, 2003, 03:43:24 AM EDT

beautiful :) -NT - (deSitter) - July 11, 2003, 09:30:00 AM EDT

Doh! Better: string select: [:ea | ea ~= $ ] - (tuberculosis) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 12:27:20 PM EDT

Or maybe (string copyWithout: $ ) - (tuberculosis) - July 11, 2003, 07:08:42 PM EDT

Right before he left, he tried to rally in Perl - (Arkadiy) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 08:50:08 AM EDT

He might have been better at C++ -NT - (ben_tilly) - July 11, 2003, 11:44:47 AM EDT

Perl - (pwhysall) - (3) - July 11, 2003, 07:00:51 AM EDT

Perl redux - (Steve Lowe) - (2) - July 11, 2003, 11:29:51 AM EDT

sed 's/ //g' filename.txt > filename2.txt - (drewk) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 12:02:24 PM EDT

key difference, though. - (Steve Lowe) - July 11, 2003, 12:18:59 PM EDT

Java - (gdaustin) - (5) - July 11, 2003, 11:40:45 AM EDT

Wow, that's a lot of typing :-P -NT - (tuberculosis) - July 11, 2003, 12:32:06 PM EDT

n^^2 for the worst case - (Arkadiy) - (2) - July 11, 2003, 01:14:15 PM EDT

Yes you can -NT - (Arkadiy) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 01:16:12 PM EDT

You're looking for "best algorithm" - (gdaustin) - July 11, 2003, 02:13:16 PM EDT

Re: Java - off the top of my head... - (Simon_Jester) - July 11, 2003, 02:32:22 PM EDT

Fun with code... - (gdaustin) - (2) - July 11, 2003, 12:07:14 AM EDT

I can tell you what will happen - (Arkadiy) - (1) - July 11, 2003, 10:28:04 AM EDT

Will have to wait for Monday... - (gdaustin) - July 11, 2003, 11:06:03 AM EDT

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