Wget recognizes some part of my URL address as a syntax error

The & has a special meaning in the shell. Escape it with \ or put the url in quotes to avoid this problem. wget http://search.yahoo.com/404handler?src=search\&p=food+delicious -O test.html or wget “http://search.yahoo.com/404handler?src=search&p=food+delicious” -O test.html In many Unix shells, putting an & after a command causes it to be executed in the background.

C fundamentals: double variable not equal to double expression?

I suspect you’re using 32-bit x86, the only common architecture subject to excess precision. In C, expressions of type float and double are actually evaluated as float_t or double_t, whose relationships to float and double are reflected in the FLT_EVAL_METHOD macro. In the case of x86, both are defined as long double because the fpu … Read more

Converting decimal to binary in Java

Integer.toBinaryString(int) should do the trick ! And by the way, correct your syntax, if you’re using Eclipse I’m sure he’s complaining about a lot of error. Working code : public class NumberConverter { public static void main(String[] args) { int i = Integer.parseInt(args[0]); toBinary(i); } public static void toBinary(int int1){ System.out.println(int1 + ” in binary … Read more

Is there a goto statement in Java?

James Gosling created the original JVM with support of goto statements, but then he removed this feature as needless. The main reason goto is unnecessary is that usually it can be replaced with more readable statements (like break/continue) or by extracting a piece of code into a method. Source: James Gosling, Q&A session