The ‘this’ keyword as a property

It is indexer. After you declared it you can do like this: class MyClass { Dictionary<string, MyType> collection; public MyType this[string name] { get { return collection[name]; } set { collection[name] = value; } } } // Getting data from indexer. MyClass myClass = … MyType myType = myClass[“myKey”]; // Setting data with indexer. MyType … Read more

What does static mean in ANSI-C [duplicate]

Just as a brief answer, there are two usages for the static keyword when defining variables: 1- Variables defined in the file scope with static keyword, i.e. defined outside functions will be visible only within that file. Any attempt to access them from other files will result in unresolved symbol at link time. 2- Variables … Read more

When must we use extern alias keyword in C#?

Basically you only really need it when you want to use two types with the same fully qualified name (same namespace, same type name) from different assemblies. You declare a different alias for each assembly, so you can then reference them via that alias. Needless to say, you should try to avoid getting into that … Read more

Address of register variable

Here’s an excerpt from Section 6.7.1 (footnote 101) of the C99 standard (pdf): The implementation may treat any register declaration simply as an auto declaration. However, whether or not addressable storage is actually used, the address of any part of an object declared with storage-class specifier register cannot be computed, either explicitly (by use of … Read more

Finding words after keyword in python [duplicate]

Instead of using regexes you could just (for example) separate your string with str.partition(separator) like this: mystring = “hi my name is ryan, and i am new to python and would like to learn more” keyword = ‘name’ before_keyword, keyword, after_keyword = mystring.partition(keyword) >>> before_keyword ‘hi my ‘ >>> keyword ‘name’ >>> after_keyword ‘ is … Read more