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Text is a sequence of printable characters.

Text is a sequence of printable characters.

Text can be unformatted (plain) or formatted (rich).

The most common character codes used for representing text are Unicode and ASCII:

  • ASCII is a character code and an encoding.
  • Unicode is a complex standard, with multiple encodings, the most common of which is UTF-8.
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Check if string contains only whitespace

How can I test if a string contains only whitespace? Example strings: " " (space, space, space) " \t \n " (space, tab, space, newline, space) "\n\n\n\t\n" (newline, newline, newline, tab, newline)
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How can I print bold text in Python?

E.g: print "hello" What should I do to make the text "hello" bold?
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How I can delete in VIM all text from current line to end of file?

I have very large files (more than 10Gb). I need only some lines from the top of the file. Is it possible (in vim) to delete the rest of the file (from current line to the end of file)?
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Find text string using jQuery?

Say a web page has a string such as "I am a simple string" that I want to find. How would I go about this using JQuery?
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How do I center text vertically and horizontally in Flutter?

I'd like to know how to center the contents of a Text widget vertically and horizontally in Flutter. I only know how to center the widget itself using Center(child: Text("test")) but not the content itself. By default, it's aligned to the left. In…
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Quick unix command to display specific lines in the middle of a file?

Trying to debug an issue with a server and my only log file is a 20GB log file (with no timestamps even! Why do people use System.out.println() as logging? In production?!) Using grep, I've found an area of the file that I'd like to take a look at,…
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UILabel Align Text to center

How do I align text in UILabel?
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Set color of TextView span in Android

Is it possible to set the color of just span of text in a TextView? I would like to do something similar to the Twitter app, in which a part of the text is blue. See image below: (source: twimg.com)
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How can I use a batch file to write to a text file?

I need to make a script that can write one line of text to a text file in the same directory as the batch file.
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Remove blank lines with grep

I tried grep -v '^$' in Linux and that didn't work. This file came from a Windows file system.
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SVG: text inside rect

I want to display some text inside SVG rect. Is it possible? I tried
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In React ES6, why does the input field lose focus after typing a character?

In my component below, the input field loses focus after typing a character. While using Chrome's Inspector, it looks like the whole form is being re-rendered instead of just the value attribute of the input field when typing. I get no errors from…
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Decode & back to & in JavaScript

I have strings like var str = 'One & two & three'; rendered into HTML by the web server. I need to transform those strings into 'One & two & three' Currently, that's what I am doing (with help of…
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How to modify a text file?

I'm using Python, and would like to insert a string into a text file without deleting or copying the file. How can I do that?
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How to read a text file into a list or an array with Python

I am trying to read the lines of a text file into a list or array in python. I just need to be able to individually access any item in the list or array after it is created. The text file is formatted as follows: 0,0,200,0,53,1,0,255,...,0. Where…
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