Text substitution is a useful OS X feature that has been around since Snow Leopard. These macros allow you to type in a short string of characters, such as "omw" and have those characters ...

Q. I read your August 2022 JofA article about changing the case of text in Excel to upper, lower, and proper, but some of my data comes in sentence form. Is there any way to convert those text strings ...

In the last paragraph of my column "How To Debug a PowerShell Script," I mentioned that punctuation can be problematic in PowerShell strings. I often catch myself omitting apostrophes, for example, ...

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, ...

Text has long been customizable in Xcode when creating software for Apple's platforms. Now, String catalogs make it even easier to localize your app to multiple languages. Ever since macOS shipped in ...

This post explains how to use the new Excel TEXTSPLIT function. TEXTSPLIT() is a Text function in Excel. The purpose of this function is to split a given text string on the basis of one or more ...

Windows only: ClipChain allows you to copy many strings of text from different places in one document or from multiple applications to form a text chain which can be pasted where you need it to go.

You might be in a panic after re-reading a string of textually explicit novellas you vaguely remember typing at 2 o’clock this morning. While that train wreck likely can’t be undone, all trace of it ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java String printf method can be confusing at first, but it greatly simplifies how you ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Follow these steps to find the length of a String in Java: Declare a variable of type String ...