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What A quick post on how I managed to build a regex to extract all non-numeric characters (all non-digits) from a string. Why? I only want the digits/numbers from a string: v_PaymentTerms = "Credit Note - 30 Days"; // we want the 30 from the above string How?
What A quick note as I had difficulty finding a clear answer on this. I need a cron job setup where the permissions for a database user is required to do a backup (reading and copying data from a LIVE database) to a copy of the database (inaccessible via other users). How? I want to list 2 methods here. One to create a...
I saw a lot of articles that would cover this but I wanted an example which includes headers and footers and how to get an automatic page-break-inside to not overlap these. Fine on screen but this is obviously for when it comes to printing.
This is an article resolving an issue where a template will shrink all the text when in PDF preview.
This is an article documenting how to update Creator from a workflow written in a Deluge Script held in ZohoCRM.
This is an article to remind me how to search a column in an Excel file for values found in another column (in this example, on another worksheet in the same workbook). How? So for demonstration purposes, I'm using a new Excel file with two worksheets called "Sheet1" and "Sheet2" respectively.
This article serves to explain how to split a spreadsheet consisting of multiple sheets into separate files per sheet.
This is an article explaining the code needed to write a PHP script which generates an access token for a service account which in turn is used to list files in a team's Google Drive. This is very different to my code for OAuth when attended: Google Authentication - OAuth 2.0 using PHP/cURL... In that this one doesn't...
This is an article documenting how to access ZohoCRM with API v2 using PHP and cURL. The first few functions are to manage OAuth v2 and generate the refresh and access tokens. The second snippet of code below is using the functions to read data from Zoho CRM and to write data back to the system.
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