I guess some of you might have written some utility programs that allow
you to convert a CSV file to another CSV file with fewer columns and
having some field values mapped according to some rules.
I am looking for a similar solution to help my poor colleague to

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"is is". So it will return TRUE if String A includes two "i" and two
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I have a problem in developing an application that use the struts frameswork.
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Hi all, I am trying to write a tabu search algorithm for my scheduling
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I am trying to create 2 separate environments (dev and test) on one powerful
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I am developing J2ME class that listens the serial port and reads all
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bytes and the structure of the message may vary very much (read: they
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I would like to call native shared libraries in my servlet/jsp page.
So -As I know- servlets are multi-threaded. It means  (I suppose) that my
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When I run jar from its directory all ok
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I want to ask if there are alternatives to HTTP? web services are using
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I'm working with JBoss on two different servers with two different versions
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