"Age is just a number"
No, "Age" is clearly a string.

When you spend too much time doing JS...

Public class UnnamedChild extends Person implements Mirziteh {

public UnamedChild(String fName){
super();
this.fName = fName;
}

//methods removed for brevity
}

It's important for developers to remember that......

For the rest of the world a "string" and a "thread" are the same thing..

This is real.

String query = "select password from users where username = " + username;

When my mom asks about my problems :p

According to my teacher you should better store the ISBN of a book into an int than in a String.

You know what really grinds my gears?

Seeing a 5-line comment, that have absolute no value, for a variable declaration.

Example:

/*
*
* String that holds a delivery address.
*
*/
public String deliveryAddress;

Note to myself : Searching "String LaTeX" on google might give you something quite different from what you expected

Every time I write Strong instead of String i do 10 push ups.

I have my doubts of being a good developer when my fingers type this thing

Just checking if a string contains itself

/**
* It gets the user name
*/
public String getUsername() {
return this.username;
}

Apparently they'd never heard of bools. The best part is the case check given that they define the string.

He wanted to create a 4000 character long string

How do you generate a random string?

Tell a windows user to exit vim

Just found this precious gem in the legacy code I am maintaining! How do you check if a string is empty :-D ?

I love my city but cmon developers 😂

An hour of finding an error didn't get any.
Cousin asked, "Why does iostream and conio have a ".h" but STRING DOESN'T?"
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

When a binary file contains an emoji if displayed as string

Working with a "senior frontend developer"

HIM: committed this code, and took him 2 weeks before his first commit on our project
var str = ''

if (string == 'String Here') {
str = 'stringhere'
} else if ( string == 'Another String Here') {
str = 'anotherstringhere'
} and so on ...

ME: WTF?
ME: can we do it like this?
ME: str = string.replace(/\s/g, '').toLowerCase()

Maybe he is senior by age :D

So no odd numbers in a string then?

You've spent nearly 5 hours trying to figure out why your app won't work. Only to realize you misspelled a string constant.

I always hate going back to C++ after using JavaScript for long periods of time. I'm always like, "Fuck I just wanna split this string!"

Started with learning C.
Made the first big mistake right at the start.
NOTE TO ME:

NEVER EVER SEARCH FOR "C STRING" WHILE WORKING.

C is a cool programming language where if you want to return a string from a function you have to set up an entire physical-universe human social system for adjudicating who is responsible for freeing it "In order to create a C string, you must first create civilization"

"In order to create a C string, you must first create civilization"

Coworker: I give up! Please help me!

Me: What's up?

C: Take a look at this. I have this function here that gets the tab index and I'm passing it to the Tabs component over there. I'm logging the index and as you can see it's 3, but the Tabs component isn't working. However if I replace the function call with a 3 it works!

Coworker 2: While you were explaining all that, shellbug already thought about at least 3 reasons why that isn't working.

Me: **sighs** Of what type is the value that function is returning?

C: **stares at me for a few seconds** It's a number.

Me: Are you sure?

C: Well, it's returning 3.

Me: Please do a typeof.

It was string.

My first name has 2 letters. For Some web applications, I have to use fake name..... because my name failed in string.length check.

string work_it, make_it, do_it, makes_us;
if(work_it=="harder") {
make_it="better";
if(make_it=="better") {
do_it="faster";
if(do_it=="faster") {
makes_us="stronger";
}}}

These two strings walk into a bar and sit down. The bartender says, "So what'll it be?"

The first string says, "I think I'll have a beer quag fulk boorg jdk^CjfdLk jk3s d#f67howe%^U r89nvy owmc63^Dz x.xvcu"

"Please excuse my friend," the second string says, "He isn't null-terminated."

Getting the nth character of a string.

Every other language:

string[n]

Swift:

string[index(string.startIndex, offsetBy: n)]

Fun fact: if you send a string as response from a java Servlet to Ajax request. The string isn't null terminated.

wanna know how I found out. I didn't for 2 whole FUCKING days.

One of my favourite, encryption puzzles is this:

ITuyVT93oUZtLKWyVT5iqPO3nTS0VUEbMKxtp2IyoD==

Answer is plain text string in english. Good luck, post solution in the comments!

Word of day:
Hellogrammer
Slang for person who can print "hello world", "hello", or some random string of character in multiple programming languages and whose knowledge is limited to printing string.

Synonyms: hypocrite, stupid, script Kidde....

import java.util.Exception;
try {
public class A {
public static void main(String args[]) {
new Exception();
}
}
}
catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println("Got you BITCH");
}

Just looking at code, my colleague ("Senior Java Developer"), wrote...

if (process == "null") {...}

As you can guess, process is a String.

I just don't know what I can tell him. It's just so wrong, in every possible way...

// I can't be the only one...

public static void p(String inpt) {
System.out.println(inpt);
}
...

p("That much typing is unjustified.");

public class HelloDevRant
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
//Commenting for reasons! ;)
System.out.print("Hello dear devRant community!\nI am new here!\nNice to meet you.");
}
}

/*
* Name
*/
private static final String NAME = "name";

No shit Sherlock...

Looking into a helper class written by someone who was clearly not a master of their craft. The class deals with some string IDs...

public getIDPosition1(String id){
return id.substring(0,1);
}

So far so useless. But it gets better. What is declared immediately below the above method?

public getIDPosition2(String id){
return id.substring(1,2);
}

And below that? You guessed it:

public getIDPosition3(String id){
return id.substring(2,3);
}

This continues to position 10.... -.-

I programmed a random credit card generator at school and saved it to my :F drive which is the private drive for students to save stuff to. That night I tried accessing my account and it had notified me that it had been locked. I went into school the next day and was called into the office, the principal and Tech Administrator were there waiting for me and asked what the file was. The Tech Administrator tried to describe to me what he found
"This gen.html file seems to be malicious and puts our school at risk. It seems to be some sort of malware and stuff like that is prohibited at school."
Now me sitting in the chair listening to this, laughing in my head just said "okay" and nodded my head because he is the type of person to argue forever. They came to the conclusion to unlock my account by the end of the semester.
Just goes to show that it doesn't take much to get a Tech Admin position at a school.

I never make the same mistake twice, I make it eight or nine times just to be sure.

String name;
String number
String dob;

found at work today. just...why? what's next? public string If?

Why is this so true 😅

Recently saw a piece of code left by a former coworker where he converted an int to a long, by converting it to a string, then parsing the string.

To convert an int number to a string I do this:-

String s=10+"";

public String getDbPasswd(){
try{
String dbPasswd = SomeInhouseEncryptionLib.getPasswd("/hard/coded/path/to/key");
return dbPasswd;
} catch(Exception e){
LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE,e)
return "the-actual-password";
}
return null;
}

And this is now in production
FML

Try this code in JS:
++[[]][+[]]+[+[]]
This is valid and returns the string "10" in JavaScript  :)))

Source: in comment👇

Unless you had a horrible accident where you lost most of your fingers, I don't understand why anyone would do this. I had to double check I wasn't looking at obfuscated code.

```
String a;
String flag;
String tp;
String n;
String chn;
String lt;
String lg;
String bid;
String d;
```

Came across a fun one today :
Some JS dev using 'false' and 'true' instead of false and true. 😫

I've taken over a project with legacy code, this is one of the methods:

private bool areEqual(string value1, string value2)
{
return value1 == value2;
}

Also, the opening brackets are on a new line

Q : How do you generate random string?
A : Put my keyboard layout to Dvorak and write someone's name.

Reverse the given string without using inbuilt java methods... 😭😭😭😭

Every time you will get this question even when you have more than 6 yrs of experience 😡

$str = str_replace(array("\{","\}")," ",$str);

//Replaces with spaces the braces in cases where braces in places cause stasis

Pet peeve of the day: People littering code with comments that repeat already obvious method names.

// Submits public key password
SubmitPublicKeyPassword(string psw)
{
//...
}

Normal people: minutes
Php Developers: i

This guy who earns 20% more than me wrote a method to check which string of 2 is lexicographically smaller.

public boolean isSmaller(String s1, String s2) {
String [] temp = new String[2];
temp[0] = s1;
temp[1] = s2;
Collections.sort(temp);
if (temp[0].equalsIgnoreCase(s1)) {
return true;
}
else {
return false;
}
}

been solving a bug for almost 2 hours and i have just solved it by turning the incoming data into string. damn it

let 🌎 = "🐶🐱🦁🐇🐢🐹🐀🐿️🐰🐓🐦🦃🕊️🐏🐐🐺🐃🐖🐗🦄🐂🐷🐼🐧🐘🐫🐯🐆🐵🐨🐪🐊🐋🐟🐠🐡🐙🦀🐬"

var ⛴️: String [] = []

for 💕 in 🌎 {
⛴️.append (💕 + 💕)
}

As a developer, I'm sometimes accused of pulling strings out my arse.
As a dog owner, I've literally just had to pull a string out of my dog's arse.

I really wish she'd stop eating fabric.

i really love coding because in C# you write string, and in Arduino String( with a capital s). You mess this up and nothing works.
10/10 would rewrite the whole program again because of this.

Guess who is going to spend Christmas working on the most painful project ever...

Use hard-coded string literals instead of using string resources in Android projects.

When you notice that the sum of two empty arrays is an empty string in JavaScript

js> [ ]+[ ]
""

SQL Queries built up using string concatenation.

Death is too kind.

Here are few hillarious coding puns I found....

class Brick implements Throwable { }

byte me;

char acter;

float stone;

Exception taken;

string me_along;

int elligence;

Also usually works with a manager of your choice

Classic Biff

Alright then...

At least it parsed null as a string. Better than crashing, but the correct url would have been slightly better.

String concatenation in PHP is the 'dumb'.'est';

When one of your dev's can't keep his variable naming consistent, even within the same line. Throw in non-English comments, bad spelling and incorrect pluralization for good measure

string myVariable = THE_OTHER_VARABLE + AnotherDumbVariable
//This add the string for better working

World's best random string generator
Open a vim session in front of a designer and tell him to exit 😂😂

Found this gem in code review today:
$stringValue = (string)-5;

Normal lang:
int
bool
string
Java:
int
boolean
String

Me, starting this project: "im gonna use a templating engine so i can effectively generate files"

Me, now: "this could have been done by a string replace"

How to generate a random string:

Not quite a rant, but if you came here for a cool way to reverse strings in python then I've got you covered:

backwardsString = string[::-1]

Don't know why you come to devRANT for tips on python string reversal but hey

I thought it was cool at the time ::)))

Class DonaldTrump extends Shit implements Asshole {
public final boolean PRESIDENT = false;
public final String THINKING = "bullshit";
public void talk () {
System.out.println(THINKING);
}
}

I'm working with DATES today. Who puts a date in the db as a STRING!

Ocaml, the strictest language when it comes to types i have ever seen, parses a string to a general json object in around 5 loc.

Take notes java.

String nullabity check duel...
null, isEmpty(), "", " ", '', ' ', " null", boolean, NaN, undefined, isNullOrEmpty and finally try-catch

When you are trying to debug Android apps and need to find small string in that huge spam logcat is giving you...

Windows 10 Image viewer:

void ShowImage(string imagePath) {
Thread.Sleep(3600)
imagePath:GetImage().show = true
}

Sorry if my code is bad. But you understand what i mean xD

Perfect way for generating random string...

What's your debug string?
Mine is: "poney" or "fucktheseshit"

So got access to the team repos. Was looking through the code I'll be working with. Glad to say it's undocumented with a bunch of "String j =" for that instant knowledge of what the variable is. Also there is a bunch of code that's been commented out but not removed because reasons. And logs are really helpful as they display "mayday mayday, /xyz got hit". Very Useful.

Glad it's still readable though even with all of the bad practices.

"/path/to/my/file.swift:143:34: error: cannot convert return expression of type 'String.SubSequence' (aka 'Substring') to return type 'String'"

Ah yes, I love it when Substring isn't String

Let's write some Java line by line, go!

public static void main(String[] args) {

Writing a function to take a string of delimited entities, parse each character to find the separators, capture the characters in between separators, and return an array of entities.

I used this for about a year before I learned about String.split()

Yeah.

Previous dev needed to validate new user names as unique. His solution? Query Top 1000 rows and do a string comparison. Totally scalable, amirite?

public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello, World!");
}
}

sorry for my messy code

That moment when your senior dev saves all dates in MySQL as a string human readable date

I once spotted this in our PHP code:

if (!empty("literal string")) { ... }

How did that even passed the code review process still remains a mystery.

public void 2016(){
if (badLuck = NOT_ENOUGH)
badLuck++;
else
badLuck++;
}

public String 2017(){
return HOPE_FOR_THE_BEST;
}

Happy new year fellow programmers!

String someStr = "your name";

// but i wanna capitalize it
someStr.capitalize(); // <-- operation has no effect

// ughh, fine 😒
String cappedStr = someStr.capitalise();

// wish I could just do this:
someStr .= capitalize(); // but it throws error 😩

private static final String CHANGE_MY_MIND;

const change_my_mind;

String manipulation, few lines of code and lot of work but a lot of satisfactions 😍

Used a String as a Boolean
First sin of the year
😂😂😂
Ps:Android studio wont let me use int or boolean,it was suggesting to use respective arrays as it was inside a loop

Allo knows "something she cannot say"

My biggest regret was using string builder to build html responses

"How would you reverse a string?"

One of the best Java interview questions I ever had! (no kidding)

I need someone standing behind me 24/7 making sure I don't try to String == "test"
Just wasted half an hour wondering why nothing was happening

😺when is a 3 not a 3
🤔
😸when it is a string
😥
😹

For the love of good, dear web devs. Please trim your user inputs before validating them. Thanks!

I'm curious...is there a practical application for reversing a string, other than for tutorials and interview questions?

Any enterprise web service which ignores http standards. If you have a Fucking error return 500 not 200 with an error string you f--k

Me: *spends three days trying to format a string to replace two backslashes with one*

Python: Here you go!

str = bytes(str,"utf-8")
.decode("unicode_escape")

Converting an int to a string for use in a switch statement... And nothing else.

Who the HELL wrote this crap?!

Thanks, vuejs, for correctly rendering ${ note.title }, but taking \'${ note.title }\' as a string literal, that is truly helpful and not inconsistent at all.

string helloWorld = "Hello World!";
System.out.println(helloWorld);

Only 10 kinds...

private String field;

public void setField(String field) {
field = field;
}

// I was wondering why didn't the value change

other dev changed constructor from

public A(String val){
this.val = val;
}

to

public A(String val){
this.setVal(val);
}

this feels bad in many ways, but need some arguments to convince him that its wrong

A few days ago, while coding late at night, I had written the following (in Python) to read the first character of a string:

first_char = line[:1]

When reviewing the code right now, I thought this should instead be:

first_char = line[0]

Right?

Nope! This will fail when the string is empty.

Seems like my sleepy brain wrote better code than my awake brain xD

Or maybe I'm more tired night now ZZZ

This jewel piece of code in Java:

if(String.valueOf(var1.toString( ) ).equalsIgnorecase(String.valueOf(var2.toString())){
//fuck something else here
}
String var1; //defined somewhere
String var2; //defined somewhere in the code

At this point I am not even mad 😂😂

When I was first learning Java I forgot to use If statements and made about a 600 systemoutprint lines. Don't be like me

Am currently at a jamboree where one kid said he was really good at maths. Then another younger kid asked him what 12 + 12. The first kid then said 24 to which the second kid laughed and said "twelvetwelve". Then the small kid promptly ran away yelling "catch me catch me".

They really do say the darnest things, but concatenation was unexpected :v

15 min Java Coding Challenge - Reverse Words in a String on YouTube.
My eyes are bleeding.

Yes, php, it makes total sense that `array_diff` compares the string representation of the elements.

Use a fucking string to store an int just to use a switch on the value.

When you write a package to check if you want to process a string or not

I have a bug that shows null but i got an "null" string which is nasty. To someone who did this, i'll find you and i'll kill you

Task: Use random string in url to prevent cache.
Me: `<script src="lightbox.js?random"></script>`

So apparently C# even adds punctuation for you?!?

Not sure why Microsoft named their string CString.

It's hard to find an appropriate result in Google about it.

[Column("FirtsName")]
string FirstName { get; set; }

Pointers like this:
char* string;

Or like this:
char *string;

?

A wild format bug appears!

string of spaghetti jokes

It is a PITA, when you have to triple escape single and double quotes in strings in order to get your stuff working.

Who else is a retard and does this:

String = "";

and doesn't notice the error immediately??

Get a DateTime. Convert to a string. Convert back to a DateTime. Use that DateTime to build a string.

WHY.

(it's red because I refactored it; snipped copied from our version control)

Other people in 2019:
Realtime image classification!

Me in 2019:
22075ms to find all occurrences of a string of the screen

When they don't comment on their code 🖕

foreach(string language in LANGUAGES){
System.Console.writeLine(language.GetPhrase("Greeting"));
}

String userName = user.getName(); // get user name

Best conversation with non tech roommate ever:

Me: hey roomie, implement an algorithm to determine if a string has all unique characters

Roommate: like a string of code or a string of yarn?

TFW you learn that trim(null) equals empty string in PHP.

I´m starting to understand why people seem to dislike PHP.

Promise.resolve() in js. You have a string but need a promise? Just do a Promise.resolve(str) and boom! You can 'then' the shit out of your string...

Debugging a previously employed intern code for hours (poorly written JavaScript). Found out they were comparing the exact string value of the input boxes. #smh

rant, but !really.

Trying out this new Kotlin language. Pretty cool, except for...

val str: String = "what the fuck is this syntax?"

Tomorrow are is my final exam in english (I'm a german).
So what did I do today?
Learning...? A bit.
RegEx...? Heck yea!

A coworker wants to save telphone numbers as Strings in a database I don't get why he doesn't want to use Ints. I think it is stupid because it uses more space and you need to change the type if you want to use it to call someone. He says it is better this way because you can put there "+" and "-" for better readability.

Pissed off:
Trying to write a date function that converts an Int (seconds) to days hours/minutes/seconds.
Get stuck when I build the output-string because I need to mix string and Int. I am used to C# and PHP, C++ just screws it up for me.

Python string formatting

When your friends wants you to help them code in Java and they type

public void Main String

without any instruction ...

Who the hell returns a SOAP response with a CDATA node containing a text string that is a concatenation of XML document?

Someone hates me...

01000110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01000001 01101100 01101100

i cant believe i actually spent 6 fucking hours trying to write the implementations for string functions and trying to consider having null parameters ehwndbwksbdk wtffff is happening

I find myself always accidentally saying "string" when I mean to talk about words and "array" when I mean to talk about a list.

Understanding the usage of

public static void main (String... args)

Helping out a friend how to code, and he said:

"Can't we just use a string? An array is just like a string anyway."

We were looking at some setting types in Visual Studio.

Trying to learn c and I forgot the name of the string comparison function, so I googled "c string"

O boi....

man, those hours.... some god, please kill the bastard responsible for this shit...

(
in the picture is like:

weight: beautician
occupation: "" --empty string
)

You know what really bugs me? How movies show people hacking into something with the terminal and all the matrix code but its really not like that.

Casting every data type to string to get a table to merge correctly...

I saw multiple attempts to convert an int to a String by concatenating it with an empty String...
String s = someInt +"";

(I'm guessing the compiler uses a StringBuilder here which still ends up calling Integer.toString())

How do you generate a random string? ... Put a web designer in front of VIM and tell him to save and exit.

Here are some of the variable types in java if someone needs it :)

-String myString = "Hello";
//integeres
- Byte myByte = 127; [It can hold up to 128
-Short myShort = 530; [up to 32767] -> 2 bytes
-int myInt = 8021; [up to 2,147,483,647] -> 4 bytes]
-long myLong = 213134; [ up to 9,223,372,036,854,755,807] -> 8bytes
//Decimal Numbers
-float myFloat = 3.14f;
-double myDouble = 23.45;

P.S.
I hate double... idk why
Bye

I spent 20 minutes looking at my Java if statement wondering why it's not working as intended:
if (word == "ABC")
I need some sleep/more coffee 🙃

In this gym there is space for no one.

"Nah we can't implemented that feature cause our urls are hashed". Hmm, that looks like a base64 string. Decode. Profit!

Just use string resources from the get go in android studio.

I said - Son, Im afraid I think my mother is turning into a string...

He said - Who NaN?

Its fucked up when you get null as a fuckin string ("null") from backend API and it breaks your javascript code
:/

I know that if something looks stupid but it works, it ain't stupid... but this is just plain borderline.

Basically, a cast from int to String to int to String from some legacy code I'm working with

I'm staring at the setter portion of a legacy VB property I came across.

This is crazy... right?

Set(value As String)
_firstName = value.Substring(0, value.Length)
End Set

Me: I tried to catch this bug for two days
Other: Let me show
5 seconds later...
Other: Oh, you just used the wrong string type
Me: ...

class smoking{

public static void main ( String []args){
int a = 2;
String c = "cigarettes";
if (a==2)
System.out.print ("go smoke "+ c);
else if (a <2)
System.out.println ("go buy some");
else
System.out.println ("error");

}
}

Why the fuck would json decode return a string. Fuck you🖕🖕🖕🖕

I gave you a string and you return a string what's your fucking problem?????????

Not my worst but spent a few mins confused by this today:

private String str;

public myConstructor(String str){
str = this.str;
}

Me, rueing typescript: "Dammit, Typescript!"

Typescript's cheeky response: Type 'string' is not assignable to type "Dammit"

ಠ_ಠ

I am trying to "invent" secure client-side authentication where all data are stored in browser encrypted and only accessible with the correct password. My question is, what is your opinion about my idea. If you think it is not secure or there is possible backdoor, let me know.

// INPUT:
- test string (hidden, random, random length)
- password
- password again
// THEN:
- hash test string with sha-512
- encrypt test string with password
- save hash of test string
// AUTH:
- decrypt test string
- hash decrypted string with sha-512
- compare hashes
- create password hash sha-512 (and delete password from memory, so you cannot get it somehow - possible hole here because hash is reversible with brute force)

// DATA PROCESSING
- encrypt/decrypt with password hash as secret (AES-256)

Thanks!

EDIT: Maybe some salt for test string would be nice

Why is there no devDuck cape for Angular?

Well, If string length was the reason, "ng" would've sufficed.

String can not be resolved to a type?
WHAT?

I've been dreaming about an eat() method in, I guess, Javascript. It would accept a string as parameter and set the cursor position further by the width of that string in the current font and size without displaying the string. A bit like a span with FG == BG.
But the best was the debug mode: the characters would be printed, but a yellow duck would appear from the left and eat them in Pacman style.

Dear ${dev_name}, you have a bug.

Silly mistakes while coding, fuck!!

I wrote a loop:
for(i=0; s[i]!='0'; ++i){
//Code
}

and thinking what's going wrong🤔
.
.
.
After sometime I realized my '\' wasn't pressed 😢😶

And after that:
SILLY ME 😁😁 is only thought in mind....

public class Celebrations {

public static void WishHappyBirthday(String toWho) {
if(toWho == null || toWho.isEmpty()){
System.out.println("Can't wish" +
"happy birthday to" +
"someone that doesn't exist");
return;
}

System.out.println("Happy Birthday " +
toWho + "!!!");
}
}

When you tell your friend you're good at coding and they ask if you can hack into a Facebook account

Do you think my credit card company has a big bounty? String formatting really isn't that difficult.

When you are dreaming about you being stuck in a never ending loop of string escape... Nightmares...

Imagine an annual $50k+ enterprise software package that didn't distinguish between a null and an empty string in valuing critical data. Not noticed for years - wtf?

Spring JPA might be annoying sometimes...

public MyResult findFirstByIdentities_CompanyIdAndIdentities_UserIdAndFromDateAndToDateAndFormatAndIdentities_SourceAndStatusInAndCreatedOnAfterOrderByCreatedOnDesc(String companyId, String userId, Date fromDate, Date toDate, String format, String source, Collection<String> status, Date createdOn) {...}

I know I know, efficiency is weeping in a dark corner. Will deal with it later

WHY THE FUCK DOES RUNKIT RETURN A SHORTENED STRING?!?!? I SPENT 3 FUCKING DAYS DEBUGGING BECAUSE 2 VALUES WERENT THE SAME.

AAAAA