You will most often use Bash functions to make your shell life easier; instead of typing out complex command pipelines, create a function and inject arguments. You'd place these in your bashrc file, ...

A software failure due to an invalid string of characters is common in any software system, but it is a critical one in an embedded software written in C language because it frequently manipulates ...

Don’t copy and paste the same code over and over again. Instead, create a PowerShell function and save yourself time.

We often read (including in the book Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper) that if we pass variable names as parameters to functions, they will be treated as string literals and cannot be ...

Variables hold a wide variety of information temporarily. The JavaScript data types that can be stored in a variable include: JavaScript variables can hold a few other kinds of data, but these are by ...

When you define macro variables, you can include macro functions in the expressions to manipulate the value of the variable before the value is stored. For example, you can use functions that scan ...

Don't struggle to pass strings. Instead, apply these five simple rules when working with embedded strings in VBA. If you want to work with VBA, eventually, you’ll struggle with embedded strings. It ...