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How to check for numbers in a textbox, of which you only want letters A - Z

I am using JavaScript on my website to check input elements within a form. I am trying to ensure that there are no numbers in the field when the user enters their name. The form is created using PHP. I am still in my first year of web design so not…
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C++ Converting/casting String letters to integer values (ASCII)

I'm currently doing a project where I need to create two data structures that will be used to contain strings. One of them has to be a form of linked list, and I've been adivsed to seperate the words out into seperate lists inside of it for each…
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generating random alphabets with some alphabets having a higher frequency of occurence(vc++6.0)

basically i have a function that generates random alphabets .i have done this using the rand() function to generate numbers and them converted them to their corresponding ascii equivalents. but i want the vowels to be generated in higher numbers as…
shashank saket
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How to test if the first character in a symbol is a letter in lisp?

How to test if the first character in a symbol is a letter in lisp? I know it has something to do with the alpha-char-p function.
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Finding strings with duplicate letters inside

Can somebody help me with this little task? What I need is a stored procedure that can find duplicate letters (in a row) in a string from a table "a" and after that make a new table "b" with just the id of the string that has a duplicate…
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Add space between numbers/digits and letters/characters

I have a code like this (function($, window, document, undefined) { $.fn.quicksearch = function (target, opt) { var timeout, cache, rowcache, jq_results, val = '', e = this, options = $.extend({ delay: 100, …
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Color Single Letters in JavaFX Buttontexts

the title already describes my problem. I want to color single letters or sequences of letters in a JFX Button but not the whole text. I found a solution for swing components Is it possible to change the text color in a string to multiple colors in…
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Japanese Kakasi Dictionary Has Some Weird Letters

I downloaded the source package of kakasi from: http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/kakasi plee@sos:~/Japanese/kakasi$ l total 0 plee@sos:~/Japanese/kakasi$ wget…
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PHP making first letter an image

I need an HTML-safe function which will change a first letter of the content to the image source. So if my content will be: "Hello World!" the output will look like: "Hello" I've tried something…
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how to determine the number assigned to each letter in a cryptarithm?

I have an assignment that needs to solve a cryptarithm. But I cant understand the algorithms that I saw in the internet. Could anybody explain how to do this in simple words?
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IE 8 transparent div with content on top

Hi all I'm currently having some issues with IE < 9 and transparency rendering. I have a transparent div and some text over it. it looks fine in Firefox Chrome and IE 9. however, the older versions of IE don't render the text as well as the other…
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How to render more than one polygon from the same list

So basically what I am trying to do is to add a letter package with OpenGL, since there is no real alternative on it. (glBitmap just shows some weirds stuff on my screen) alphabet = [a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z]#refer to the…
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How to remove modify a string to remove letters from a new worksheet

So I've been trying to create a Macro to format the open a new workfile and then modify 1 colomn to remove the letters from the string of number (20180717a to become 20180717 for example). I've tried several things and came up with this code, but it…
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Searching for a letter within a list

I'm very new to coding and am taking an online course at the moment. Using the CodeHS sandbox to make programs and having a bit of a hard time with this one. I am trying to make my program look through this list of names and return which ones have…
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Binary Search Tree searching a string by letter

Hi I am a novice programmer trying to figure out how to search for a string in a binary search tree using only the first letter it starts with, for example if a just search for the letter 'L' it should bring up all names starting with that letter.…
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