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Working in MS Access 2013. Have a ton of locations/addresses which need to be standardized. Examples include addresses like: 500 W Main St 500 West Main St 500 West Main Street You get the point. I've considered running a query that pulls all records where the left(7) or something characters exist more than once in the database, but there are obvious flaws in that logic. Is there a function or query or anything else that would help me generate a list of records whose addresses may exist multiple times, in slightly different fashions? John Cappelletti This is a tricky business ... equal parts

Having read the claim multiple times in articles - I want to add this question to Stackoverflow, and ask the community - is the following code portable? template<template<typename T, typename Alloc> class C> void f() { /* some code goes here ... */ } int main() { f<std::vector>(); } Is the implementation that supplies std::vector really allowed to have additional, defaulted template parameters beyond the two well known ones? This would render the above code ill-formed, as it assumes two template parameters. See the last paragraph in this article for an example of such a claim. I found the

I'm asking because of the discussion that's been provoked in this thread . Trying to have a serious back-and-forth discussion using comments under other people's replies is not easy or fun. So I'd like to hear what our C experts think without being restricted to 500 characters at a time. The C standard has precious few words to say about NULL and null pointer constants. There's only two relevant sections that I can find. First: 3.2.2.3 Pointers An integral constant expression with the value 0, or such an expression cast to type void * , is called a null pointer constant. If a null pointer

It is common to use {0} to initialize a struct or an array but consider the case when the first field isn't a scalar type. If the first field of struct Person is another struct or array, then this line will result in an error ( error: missing braces around initializer ). struct Person person = {0}; At least GCC allows me to use an empty initializer list to accomplish the same thing struct Person person = {}; But is this valid C code? Also: Is this line guaranteed to give the same behavior, i.e. a zero-initialized struct ? struct Person person; interjay No, an empty initializer list is not

Is there a W3 or any other noteworthy standard on how to represent a color (including alpha channel) in hex format? Is it #RGBA or #ARGB ? In CSS 3, to quote from the spec, "there is no hexadecimal notation for an RGBA value" (see CSS Level 3 spec ). Instead you can the use rgba() functional notation with decimals or percentages, e.g. rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5) would be 50% transparent red. RGB channels are 0-255 or 0%-100%, alpha is 0-1. In CSS 4*, you can specify the alpha channel using the 7th and 8th characters of an 8 digit hex colour, or 4th character of a 4 digit hex colour (see CSS Level 4

A dot . in a regular expression matches any single character. In order for regex to match a dot, the dot has to be escaped: \. It has been pointed out to me that inside square brackets [] a dot does not have to be escaped. For example, the expression: [.]{3} would match ... string. Doesn't it, really? And if so, is it true for all regex standards? lilactiger89 In a character class (square brackets) any character except ^ , - , ] or \ is a literal. This website is a brilliant reference and has lots of info on the nuances of different regex flavours. http://www.regular-expressions.info