Author Archives: GauZ

My name is Gaurav Pandey. I graduated from Columbia University (Dept. of Computer Science) and have been working as a Software Developer on a variety of technologies in the beautiful city of New York :)

Iterating over a custom ‘Jagged Array’ in Python

A jagged array is an array whose elements are arrays. The elements of a jagged array can be of different dimensions and sizes. A jagged array is sometimes called an "array of arrays." C# natively differentiates between a jagged and a multidimensional array. To iterate over a every single element of a Jagged Array in […]

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Go Avengers!!!

Wow, I’m glad I saw this movie yesterday! 😉

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read(), readline(), readlines() & xreadlines() func in Python

While doing a regression analysis, I had to read & parse through a large .dat file. I called readline() func but was surprised to see that I was actually iterating through every single character in the first line! with open(filePath, ‘r’) as f: for line in f.readline(): print line Then realization dawned upon me! * […]

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Convert vowels to uppercase in a string

Given a string – say “hello world”, I was interested in capitalizing the vowels in it – IN A CLEAN & EFFICIENT WAY! In the first approach, I use a StringBuilder object to hold the intermediate String while in the second approach, I’m using a C# feature – Linq. In the second approach, there is […]

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Error 1 error LNK1104: cannot open file

I had a similar issue few years back The same solution helped me in this case as well. You simply have to turn on ‘Application Experience’ feature under services.msc to get rid of the error!

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