Posts by ByteMyASCII

The String class has a method called "contains" which checks to see if a the string has a specific character or sequence of characters. The syntax would be something similar to Code: if(yourString.contains("a")){ (do...

Yea I doubt youd be able to change cell color using SQL since its generally for interfacing with a database. You would probably have to interface it with some form of langauge to perform the cell color conversion.

This doesn't directly answer your question but you may want to look at Access to Excel looks like youll have to do some VBA potentially. I have never done this but I did a quick google search for what your looking for and this is what...

I doubt hes learned about regular expressions yet if he hasnt learned about try/catch

Problem with that solution is than like said .001 doesn't work becuase its smaller than .01

I suggested that solution earlier Jtvd but the problem is if someone wsa to type in a sentance and finish it with a period for punctuation that would evaluate as a double. What he could do (if they learned about try/catches) is try to...

Instead of checking if its greater than a certain value just check for a decimal in your string. Edit: Though I suppose that wouldnt work if someone put puncutation at the end of a sentance :/

C really isn't obsolete its still pretty widely used but its generally geared towards a lower level than a lot of people see. Its still used a lot for OS programming etc. As for learning to program in C++ I have used code blocks...

Starting with an Object Oriented language is a good idea. I find VB.Net pretty simple and Visual Basic is how I got started programming. Java is also pretty easy. I would suggest starting with one of those two. If you want to start...

Can you post the code that is giving you trouble? As well as the error you are receiving.