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The underscore character, Unicode Character 'LOW LINE' (U+005F)

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Get custom field on Contact Form 7 (with underscore)

I am trying to fill a field on the form with post_meta as explained in the documentation. This custom field “edit_last” is working: [text* edit_last default:post_meta] But when the custom field ...
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When are python sunder names used?

In Python, there are conventions for single leading underscore, double leading underscore, double leading + double trailing underscore, and single trailing underscore. Many of those are outlined in ...
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What is the meaning of a single- and a double-underscore before an object name?

I want to clear this up once and for all. Can someone please explain the exact meaning of having leading underscores before an object's name in Python? Also explain the difference between a single and ...
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What does an underscore and interface name after keyword var mean?

From http://golang.org/src/pkg/database/sql/driver/types.go: type ValueConverter interface { // ConvertValue converts a value to a driver Value. ConvertValue(v interface{}) (Value, error) } ...
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PHP Regex - Add underscore in front of capital letters, but only first capital letter if there are multiple in a row

Trying to convert something like WebsiteURL to website_url. I was able to convert it to website_u_r_l using this suggestion: PHP - add underscores before capital letters However, that doesn't work ...
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How to replace the underscore with Hyphen using Htaccess rule

How to replace the underscore with Hyphen using Htaccess rule Here is link: http://iloansdirect.netsmartz.us/property_finder.shtml I want to below link: http://iloansdirect.netsmartz.us/property-...
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Is the proper Rails inflection of underscore 'underscoreize'?

It seems that with Rails/AR and the Inflector methods added to String by ActiveSupport, I would expect that by default, Nested::ClassDerived::FromAR.name.tableize == Nested::ClassDerived::FromAR....
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Javascript convert PascalCase to underscore_case

How can I convert PascalCase string into underscore_case string? I need conversion of dots to underscore as well. eg. convert TypeOfData.AlphaBeta into type_of_data_alpha_beta
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Underscore between two image-links

I have the following HTML code inside a div: <a href="http://www.mysql.com"> <img src="images/php-power-micro2.png" alt="Image not available" title="PHP" border="0"/> </a> <a ...
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What is the purpose of the single underscore “_” variable in Python?

What is the meaning of _ after for in this code? if tbh.bag: n = 0 for _ in tbh.bag.atom_set(): n += 1
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What’s the purpose of the following code ? Increase public storage usage?

I found the following code in this contract. // `hat` address is unique root user (has every role) and the // unique owner of role 0 (typically 'sys' or 'internal') contract DSChief is DSRoles, ...
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Extract the part of a variable value before '_'

I have data which looks like this: Linking <- data.frame( ID = c(round((runif(20, min=10000, max=99999)), digits=0), rep(NA,10)), PSU = c(paste("A", round((runif(20, min=10000, max=99999)), ...
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Go struct tags with underscore before function names

I am working with go, specifically QT bindings. However I do not understand the the use of leading underscores in the struct below. I am aware of the use of underscores in general but not this ...
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Only keep a part of the 'id' string before a pattern (“_”)

I have a little issue here: I actually have a fasta file such: g1.t1_0035_0042 ATTAGGAGGAA g2.t1_0042_0042 ATTAGGAGA g3.t1_0042_0035 ATTGGAAT etc and what I would liek is only to get the first ...
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Visual Studio Code strange underscoring

I'm making some django project since yesterday and it all went fine until I started it up today. I launched Visual Studio Code and program became to underscoring lines which was fine to it yesterday, ...
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how to replace subdomain character underscores with dashes using htaccess

how to replace subdomain character using htaccess ? For example: http://test_test.domain.com after rewrite should be http://test-test.domain.com thank you
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Are underscore required for new querys with hibernate and spring boot?

I'm discovering the implementation of hibernate + spring boot and I was wondering if underscores were important for our query when our table's column name has one. For instance a basic query would be ...
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RewriteRule to change underscores to dashes only on the first directory

I know there are alot of questions already on this website related to the subject of turning underscores into dashes but i just couldn't find the right one. Here's my problem, i only want to turn ...
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camelCase to underscore in vi(m)

If for some reason I want to selectively convert camelCase named things to being underscore separated in vim, how could I go about doing so? Currently I've found that I can do a search /s[a-z][A-Z] ...
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Use of underscore in PHP code [duplicate]

Firstly, to be clear, I'm not talking about the use of underscores as for visual separation of words in function names, etc., for example from the code below, woocommerce_wp_text_input. In following ...
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Underline some chars in a String with Javascript

I have the following problem: My js code shows a display value this way: d3.select("#" + uiElement).html("") .append("span").attr("class", "displayvalue").html(stringToUse); ...
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What are the rules about using an underscore in a C++ identifier?

It's common in C++ to name member variables with some kind of prefix to denote the fact that they're member variables, rather than local variables or parameters. If you've come from an MFC background, ...
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Converting camel case to underscore case in ruby

Is there any ready function which converts camel case Strings into underscore separated string? I want something like this: "CamelCaseString".to_underscore to return "camel_case_string". ...
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Wordpress Template Underscores --> Navigation Toggle not working

I've tried several things, but my javascript toggling the mobile navigation is not reacting at all and I really don't know why. I'm using the blank theme underscores for creating the current website. ...
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Is `char _3 = 'c'` valid in C and C++? [duplicate]

Considering, i have declared variable name as a numeric with underscore. #include <stdio.h> int main() { char _3 = 'c'; printf("%c\n",_3); } I wonder, It's working fine in C and C++. So,...
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C# Variable Name “_” (underscore) only

I was just hit with a minor issue in C#, it was just a copy-paste mistake but don't know how C# accept it. This code gets compiled successfully...HOW namespace DemoNS { class DemoClass { ...
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Matlab variable name: input character is not valid in MATLAB statements or expressions [closed]

I 'm using this 720_15_LDP_OFF_values as matrix name in Matlab 2015b but I get the following error: The input character is not valid in MATLAB statements or expressions.
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Why an underscore in `float.is_integer`, but not in `str.isnumeric`?

It appears that float.is_integer is the only "is" method with an underscore in its name among built-in types in Python. Examples that don't include an underscore: str.isalnum, str.isalpha, str....
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Django app.py removes underscore in Config

PEP 8 says "Modules should have short, all-lowercase names. Underscores can be used in the module name if it improves readability. Python packages should also have short, all-lowercase names, although ...
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Match and replace a specific underscore to tab in shell

I want to replace a specific underscore from a file and replace it with a tab. The problem is that I have a lot of underscores and when I try with tr all the underscores are replaced by tabs. Here's ...
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aggregate items from list to first underscore

Let's say I have a file(.txt) with: footest_footest footest_footest2 footest_footest3 footest_footest6 bartest_bartest bartest_bartest2 cartest_cartest cartest_cartest2 cartest_cartest5 Using ...
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Vim: underscore(_) automatically converted to (<-)

I have been writing R scripts in Vim for some time now. Starting an hour ago, I began facing an issue that every time I type an underscore (_), it gets automatically converted to <-. What setting ...
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What does an underscore at the beginning of a JS chain mean

What does an underscore at the beginning of a chain mean in Javascript? For example the value of the template property below: EmProjectItem = Views.PostItem.extend({ tagName: 'li', ...
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How to change breakpoint for mobile menu toggle in Underscores theme

I am using the Underscores WordPress theme and currently the toggle for the mobile menu displays at 600px and smaller. But I'd like to change that to a larger screen size. I can't figure out how to ...
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why to use an underscore for a struct in c?

In the source code below, could somebody explain the rational (why is it good programming practice to typedef the struct _lwm2m_object_t with the new name lwm2m_object_t? All it does is drop the ...
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regex conditional not returning false on the minimum underscores

I am using this regex in if regex is match if (Regex.IsMatch(_familyname, @"(\S*_){3}\S")) I tried to ensure that the word passing the test had at least this Word1_Word2_WORD3-maybe_Word4 (note ...
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Expanding an Index in a Bash Loop Script in a Combination with a Wildcard and an Underscore [duplicate]

I have 80 pairs of files of the following type: 170309-N701-S517_S1_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz 170309-N701-S517_S1_L001_R2_001.fastq.gz 170309-N701-S502_S2_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz 170309-N701-...
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Use of underscore in function call with Try parameters

I'm trying to understand particular use of underscore in Scala. And following piece of code I cannot understand class Test[T, S] { def f1(f: T => S): Unit = f2(_ map f) def f2(f: Try[T] => ...
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Android KeyCode of Underscore

I'm implementing a custom keyboard for Android from an xml but I can't find the KeyCode for the underscore. I tried to print the keycode overriding onKeyDown but does not seem to work. Where can I ...
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Unix sort treatment of underscore character

I have two linux machines, on which unix sort seems to behave differently. I believe I've narrowed it down to the treatment of the underscore character. If I run sort tmp, where tmp contains the ...
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C# Code Style: Switching from “this.” prefix to “underscore”

I've been using the "this." prefix for about two years (StyleCop SA1102 rule). But now I'm changing my mind and using the "underscore" prefix for static and instance private fields and remove the "...
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Is there any significance of the triple underscores in this python for loop?

Is there any significance in the triple underscore in Python? This was in a script for getting all .txt files in a directory. for ___,___,files in os.walk(some_folder): files[:]=[x for x in ...
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sort command not working as expected for uppercase letters followed by underscore

I'm sorting a list of usernames. When the letters are lowercase, the sort command works as expected. Expected and actual output for lowercase: n n_123 na na_123 When the characters are uppercase ...
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Linux remove a single underscore before and after a character using command line

How do I remove a single underscore (_) before and after a character?. I have a large number of files named like filename_part_one_-_filename_part_two.file To get the filename to the above format ...
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Meaning of _ underscore as a variable prefix in VB.net

What is the meaning of underscore in visual basic? I have this code: Private _isAuthenticated As Boolean Is that the same as doing this? Private isAuthenticated As Boolean Or does adding the ...
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Escaping _ efficiently in Tabular environment, LaTeX

How can you escape underscores only in the tabular environment without the use of \_? This thread discusses about underscore in general. I cannot use the environment verbatim nor the package ...
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What will go wrong if I store the value for a python getter and setter in __dict__?

I am using python getters and setters, but I don't like using a dummy variable to store the value. For example, a simple getter and setter in python might be defined like so: class Foo(object): ...
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Mettle C++ Test Framework's use of undescore [duplicate]

Looking at the mettle test framework they have code like this: #include <mettle.hpp> using namespace mettle; suite<> basic("a basic suite", [](auto &_) { _.test("a test", []() { ...
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When to use one or two underscore in Python

Ok I think I have understood the use of one and two heading underscores in Python. Correct me if I am wrong, In the case of one underscore, the underscore prevents the from X import * statement to ...
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Any rules about underscores in filenames in C/C++?

I know that there are rules for using underscores in identifiers in C/C++. Are there any rules for using them in source code filenames? For instance, are there any restrictions against beginning or ...