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In the newest version of C#, you can have top-level statements instead of putting your entry point in a "static void Main" method. This saves you a couple of indents for your application's starting point, which doesn't really belong in a class in the first place. The compiler magically puts it in a special class and method, but you don't have to worry about that. View code on GitHub

SQLite has an option for running completely in-memory, rather than using a local file on disk. This may be perfect for doing one-time data manipulation or other short-term tasks. Just use :memory: instead of the database filename, and you'll get the in-memory database. Or use an empty string, to use memory only, but a temporary file on disk if memory starts to run low. View code on GitHub

These four functions are commonly used to copy or modify arrays in JavaScript. I generally have the signatures printed as a cheat sheet since I can never keep them all straight. splice slice shift pop View code on GitHub

var config = WebConfigurationManager . OpenWebConfiguration ( " ~ " ) ; var section = ( AppSettingsSection ) config . GetSection ( " appSettings " ) ; section . Settings [ " something " ] . Value = " newValue " ; config . Save ( ) ;

" use strict " ; ( function ( ) { var fs = require ( " fs " ) ; var readline = require ( " readline " ) ; fs . readFile ( " input.json " , function ( error , data ) { var obj = JSON . parse ( data ) ; fs . writeFile ( " output.json " , JSON . stringify ( obj ) , function ( err ) { if ( err ) { console . log ( " Error: " + err ) ; } else { console . log ( " Saved " ) ; } } ) ; } ) ; ( function ( ) { var outputStream = fs . createWriteStream ( " output.txt " ) ; var lineReader = readline . createInterface ( { input : fs . createReadStream ( " input.txt " ) } ) ; lineReader . on ( " line " , function ( line ) { console . log ( " Line: " + l

const fs = require ( " fs " ) ; const readline = require ( " readline " ) ; // Read full file fs . readFile ( " myfile.txt " , { encoding : " utf-8 " } , ( err , data ) = > { console . log ( " Full file contents: " ) ; console . log ( data ) ; console . log ( " =================== " ) ; } ) ; // Read file line-by-line var lineReader = readline . createInterface ( { input : fs . createReadStream ( " myfile.txt " ) } ) ; lineReader . on ( " line " , line = > { console . log ( ` Line: ${ line } ` ) ; } ) ; lineReader . on ( " close " , ( ) = > console . log ( " DONE " ) ) ; // Write full file fs . writeFile ( " myfile.txt " , " some file contents " , err = > { if ( err ) console . error ( err ) ; } ) ; // Write file line-by-line var outputStream = fs . createWriteStream ( " myfil