You have some text, and need to replace every sequence of spaces with a single space. E.g., My text becomes My text. Now, if you're most of us, you ignore the famous quote and reach straight for regexes. But Samuel's co-worker isn't most of us. toReturn = toReturn.Replace(" ", " "); toReturn = toReturn.Replace(" ", " ").Replace(" ", " ").Replace("...

An anonymous friend sent us our frist test in prod for this week. And then there will be more, and more, and more. "This came up in Kaspersky's Blog's RSS. If you're lucky they might still have the error up in the original URL." I don't know if "chron" is just how "cron" translates to Russian and back, but the test appears to have succeeded....

Greg's co-worker really wanted to make sure that a variable was correctly set to true or false. So they did this: if (isValid == true) { isValid = true; } else { isValid = false; } If isValid is true, set it to true, otherwise set it to false. isValid is a boolean in C#, so the only options it could have are true and false. The real WTF...

Meta-programming- programs which generate programs- is a delightful hobby, but usually shouldn't be used in production code. Usually. I mean, if you're working in LISP, 90% of your program is going to be macros. But if you're using PHP and JavaScript, there's good odds that someone you work with has decided to combine these two tastes together to create...

Zeke sends us a C# snippet from an extract-transform-load process his company uses. It's… special. private void ResizeColumn(string table, string column, int minSize) { if(null == _connection) return; string sqlReadSize = "SELECT DATA_LENGTH,DATA_TYPE,DATA_PRECISION,DATA_SCALE FROM USER_TAB_COLS WHERE TABLE_NAME = '" + table.ToUpper()...

When I first saw Nick L's submission, I thought to myself, "This is just decompiled code, so of course the names are bad." Public Function tF7q2() As String Dim SelectedtF7q2 As String = Request.QueryString("tF7q2") tF7q2 = SelectedtF7q2 End Function I mean, a name like tF7q2 can't be human generated, right? But then, the query string...