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Reading from a file and inserting into a database, a good practice
I am making an Android application which reads several JSON files and inserts the read information into tables in my database.
For instance, there are three files:
countries.json
{
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How to store other file types within a file type using Java (cross-platform)
I'm writing a program that runs/plays songs and videos. I need there to be two options, one where it stores the addresses of the files/media and another where it stores all the dependencies in its ...
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Using assembly to write to a file
I am working with a trading application (reading data from the exchange) which generates a bucket load of data on a per second basis. We have different "log-levels" but even the minimal log-level ...
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Is there a manageable way of keeping track of loose code? [closed]
I program simple tasks everyday, but I have a hard time finding the scripts, and code snippets I write. Is there an manageable way to keep track of this sort of thing?
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Increase the size of a memory mapped file
I am maintaning a memory mapped file to store my tree like datastructure.
When I'm updating the datastructure ,I got this problem.
The file is limited on it's size and can't be too long or too small.
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Implementation ideas to store multiple files within a single file for faster access?
My requirement is to store a large number of files within a single file.The files stored could be anything like images, videos or simple text files as well. I want some ideas to implement the same. I ...
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Ideal “intermediate” file format to use for structured/styled text?
I have files that I want to make available in an variety of formats:
HTML
PDF
EPUB
Plain Text (maybe)
Most of the files will be sourced in doc, docx, or rtf format, so that needs to be considered.
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Should I continue teaching old Java input methods alongside the new ones?
I've been imparting a Java introduction course for several years. Some slides explain how to read from files and keyboard using BufferedReaders, InputStreams, FileInputStreamReaders etc.
I'm adding ...
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How can I add the version of a file to the file name with Tortoise-SVN?
I would like to start giving unique names to "cache-able" files - i.e. *.css and *.js - in order to prevent caching, without requiring changes to the web-server settings (as is currently done in IIS).
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Should I use a heredoc or an external template file in my bash script?
I realise that this question may be down to personal preference but I'm pretty new to bash/shell scripting so thought it'd be worth some research to see if there's some sort of standard/best practise ...
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What is the best strategy for transforming unicode strings into filenames?
I have a bunch (thousands) of resources in an RDF/XML file. I am writing a certain subset of the resources to files -- one file for each, and I'm using the resource's title property as the file name. ...
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What is a widely accepted term for a string variable that would probably contain a file path and file name?
For functions that need to index files in a directory and rename them FileName0001, FileName0002, etc... I often need to write a function that splits the file name from the file path and rename the ...
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How do programs like subversion detect when a file has been edited as opposed to created/deleted?
This is my first question here so I hope it is not off topic. Although I am using the Linux inotify library to listen for changes to files, and I compare use of that against the Subversion program, I ...
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File Processing Times
I have a very simple program in Ruby that opens a dictionary file, sorted-words.txt and prints out all the words in pig-latin. I tested its speed, and the first time I ran it, the program finished in ...
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How do you solve large dependencies among files?
So basically I make several programs. Of course one program often used code from another. So I have my own personal "library"
Well, I do write jerk codes. Then When I open a project, the project will ...
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What are binaries?
I see very often people using term binaries in different context. What are binaries? Collection on binary files, installation files, .dll files or what? Or is it just an general term for some ...
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Randomly Accessing Data Packets in a Compressed File
In my line of work I deal with very large files, hundreds of Gigabytes in size. The nature of the data in these files is such that compression would greatly reduce their size. The problem is, the ...
