asterix | Draft of a parser for ASTERIX binary data such as CAT062 | Parser library

I am trying to replace SQL results with all the middle values with asterix, *. All results are words. I am using SSMS. The words that are 4-5 letters, it should only show 1 letter in the beginning, one to the end. 6 letters and more, it it should only show 2 letter in the beginning, 2 letters in the end. 1-3 letters, no replacement.

For example: (I am now using - instead of * so it does not make the text bold).

"Banana" 6 letters should become ba--na

"False" 5 letters should become F---e

"a" stays the same

"Selin is a vegetable and banana is a fruit" becomes "S---n is a ve-----le and ba--na is a f---t."

What I have done so far, is to make this for emails, after the @. But now I want it to happen with every word of the result.

What I've done:

I'm learning C++ and pointers and I thought I understood pointers until I saw this.

On one side the asterix(*) operator is dereferecing, which means it returns the value in the address the value is pointing to, and that the ampersand (&) operator is the opposite, and returns the address of where the value is stored in memory.

Reading now about assignment overloading, it says "we return *this because we want to return a reference to the object". Though from what I read *this actually returns the value of this, and actually &this logically should be returned if we want to return a reference to the object.

How does this add up? I guess I'm missing something here because I didn't find this question asked elsewhere, but the explanation seems like the complete opposite of what should be, regarding the logic of * to dereference, & get a reference.

For example here:

Basically the idea is that my code chooses a random element from an array. That element is the arr[i].answer and is placed at the end of that array. Then i want to make the first occurrence of that answer as an *. I used the findIndex method as i thought that the first occurrence of my answer will become the * however both first occurrence and the last element have become an asterix.

Here is the code

I think I didn't express myself very well in the title, but basically here's what I need to do. I have a veeeery big list of lists containing at index 1 the name of the comic, index 2 the unit price, index 3 the quantity sold and index 4 the total paid.

[['1', 'Tintin', '9.95', '3', '29.85'], ['2', 'Asterix', '12.5', '3', '37.5'], ['3', 'Asterix', '12.5', '3', '37.5'], ['4', 'Asterix', '12.5', '2', '25']

And I need to find the sum of the units sold and the total money paid. For example, here Asterix would be:

['Asterix', 12.5, 8, 100]

Any ideas?

Why is it that in the source code in the SDK for LPNMITEMACTIVATE it is defined with the asterix to the left?

I have been trying to do this pointer excercise but I dont seem to find my error. The exercise consists on writing a function to print the information of an array of names, I want the position, the length of each name and the string of the name. You should also know that startPos points to the position in the array names to which each Name starts. Description of arrays in the exercise

I am working on a autocomplete feature and to populate in on a list currently the list is just showing the results but I can't select them to add it to the input element. Here is a sample of the code:

I have the following toy dataset:

I have various variables and what I want to do is to print them all with the same width (character wise). To achieve that, I first need to discover which is the longest string and add one to it, and then print the shorter ones with that width, padding with spaces.

well ideally i want the output to be like