Bash functions are essentially reusable wrappers around commands. You can use them to define complex command pipelines or to perform some detailed work and echo the result. They accept arguments and ...

The C and C++ standards do not specify the order of evaluation for function arguments. This can lead to subtle portability problems. As I explained in my column last month (“As Precise As Possible”), ...

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This may fall under the heading of "Don't do that" but did cause me to be slightly curious.<BR><BR>What would happen if you say, created a pointer to a function that took three ints as arguments, but ...

The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...

The SEQUENCE part creates a dynamic list of numbers (1, 2, 3...) that corresponds to the row index. For example, in the fifth ...