It sucks that the correct solutions are always rather complex[^] Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel] | FoldWithUs! | sighist

Wow! That literally hurt my eyes. :wtf: Unfortunately I have seen similar code for text processing. You have to keep scrolling back up a hundred lines or so to find out where the value stored in that variable came from and just what the heck it is supposed to be; of course it was probably modified on the way down – loads of fun. :rolleyes: INTP "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra

not if its a StringBuilder Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -Fred Brooks

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You mean A.R.S.E.H.O.L.E., right? :laugh:

The System.String class has a nice little pair of PadLeft()/PadRight() functions. All it needs is the character to use for padding, and the final length the string needs to be, so that whole switch could be replaced with const int FIXED_LENGTH = 6; str = str->PadLeft('0', FIXED_LENGTH); Dybs

That is indeed what Tess is saying, but she also says "that is what happens when you get an OutOfMemoryException". The other party claims the garbage collector will perform defragmentation (which is part of garbage collection, after all) before throwing OutOfMemoryException, and if that is true you wouldn't get OOM as long as the new allocation requires less than total free memory. If so, the only time you should get the exception should be when the live objects are pinned. (Very large objects are said to be "pinned" because they are never moved in defragmentation due to the hard work it would be moving such big objects around.) I guess if you want very much to conclude that they both are right you could assume Tess was talking about pinned objects, but that is a rather contrived way of getting there, and I frankly don't see the point. For me the important thing isn't who is right but what the fact is. And that is unfortunately still no more clear for me.

Fixed! ;P

What? You mean you don't have the audio/visual integration tool based on the Apache weapons officer helmet that tracks your eye movement and interprets you verbal commands? Man, life became much easier when I put on the helmet. I can't wait until they finish getting the jack put in my cerebelum so I can just think code. ;P