How to parse a sentence in PHP
A sentence can be parsed in many different ways in PHP. A few methods are presented here along with their analysis. Regardless of the language you use for parsing a…
Quick Introduction to JSON
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a lightweight standard for data interchange. It offers several advantages over XML for data interchange such as it can be used for serializing and transmitting…
Using Pandas to read file data
Python library for data manipulation and analysis. It can work with many different data types including: symbol separated data (tsv, csv, etc.) ordered and unordered time series data matrix and…
PHP: Converting to epoch time and human readable time
Epoch time is Unix timestamp which counts the number of seconds since January 1 1970 00:00:00 UTC. Without getting into long discussion, follow is how your convert between human readable…
/bin/rm: cannot execute [Argument list too long]
Error Cause rm can only handle a certain number of arguments. If you run following command in a directory of 500 json files, the argument list is 500 Solution Use…
PHP: How to validate email
Validating email is more difficult than one might think. Recently I found this this code at PHP.net and I feel a need to republish this to emphasize its effectiveness and…
Quick Introduction to BioPerl
BioPerl is a collection of Perl modules that facilitate the development of Perl scripts for bioinformatics. It is open source and widely used in the bioinformatics community. Bioperl provides software…
Reading content of a file using bash
The following code read the contents of a text file To read first five lines only Read five lines and then delete those lines