The addition of a few simple conventions to the Backus Normal Form specification of a language provides a mode of description which is more compact and easier to prepare and use than either the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java Scanner class is a simple, versatile, easy-to-use class that makes user input in Java ...

Python provides us with many tools for manipulating strings. We won’t introduce them all here, but instead we’ll demonstrate a few which we’ll use in programming exercises, and then introduce more as ...

It’s often the case that we want to divide a string into smaller parts like words or sentences. Of course, we can split a string into individual symbols using the ...

The use of the Kleene regular expression notation for describing algebraic language syntax, in particular of ALGOL, is described in this paper. A FORTRAN II computer program for carrying out the ...

Reflection was essential to the advanced Java toolkit for years. Now it's being superseded by newer, safer options. Here's how to use MethodHandle and VarHandle to gain programmatic access to methods ...

Abstract: A calculable and convenient encoding method named ‘concatenate encoding’ has been designed to improve the communication of the data longer than 8bits, which is needed by the high-accuracy ...