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In my mind, a method is a named block of code which may accept an input, usually performs an action, and may either alter the input, return output, or both. A function is a method which returns output. These are just working definitions, so may not be technically correct. They just work in most scenarios
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Hi freak!
Well, thanks for the definition man. Actually, in C#, the concept of methods and functions are eventually different, whereas, in Java, theres no concept of functions. Only methods.
Well, suddenly I was struck with the lightening of knowledge 
The stuff also can be defined like: "A method can be declared within a function, however, its not possible to declare functions within a method". How's that? Silly aint it? Does this make any sense. Do let me know!
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That doesn't make any sense. I've already said how I view methods and functions to be different, how is this inaccurate - it implies that functions and methods are different, with functions being a subtype of methods
The definition you gave is odd. If I declared some C# code like so:
public int Function()
{
private void Method()
{
}
}It wouldn't compile AFAIK (not got access to csc, so can't check). The same point applies to the second clause of your sentence.
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Indeed, C-like languages can't do that. (Probably for good reason.)
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They are really just terms for the same thing, but...
Pascal makes the following distinction:
A function returns a value, and does not alter the parameters (if any) -- x = ABS(y)
A procedure does not return a value, but does alter the parameters -- CLOSE(f)
C (and its descendants) don't really make that distinction, so a function may alter the parameter and return a value -- e = CLOSE(f)
** Although allowed by the language, many practitioners frown on "functions" that have "side-effects", regardless of the language in use. **
With Object Oriented Programming, functions that are part of a class (or struct) are called methods.
Unlike C++, C# enforces OOP so all functions must be part of a class, and are therefore methods.
If you choose, you may write methods that conform to the above definition of "function" or "procedure"
Likewise, in C# some methods are properties, some are indexers, etc.
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How about static functions/methods then? Math.Abs doesn't really care that it happens to be in Math, and you're not even passing a pointer to Math as implicit first parameter either.
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static nethods (IMO) are more like functions.
Functions = Sledge Hammer that does what it says on the tin.
Methods = More subtle to massage and manipulte fields/properties/data
Obviously these can be interchanged but...
BTW, I hesitated to reply on this thread. You do recognise the OP? Encouragement is probably not a good idea!
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Uh, yeah? So?
If they belong to a class they're methods, big fat hairy deal.
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That's not what I learned at school
that was: methods operate on an object, functions don't.
That makes static functions functions.
For you it only seems to matter where they are written and not what they actually do.
But a quick search on google reveals that the opinions of The Masses are pretty much divided into those two trains of thought.
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harold aptroot wrote: It's not like it actually matters though, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
Absolutely.
I sit corrected; the C# spec says:
"
7.4 Function members
Function members are members that contain executable statements. Function members are always members of types and cannot be members of namespaces. C# defines the following categories of function members:
• Methods
• Properties
• Events
• Indexers
• User-defined operators
• Instance constructors
• Static constructors
• Destructors
"
So as far as C# is concerned, "function" is a rather generic term. I had been using the term "member" for that meaning.
However, I still feel that we need to consider non-OOP and "multi-paradigm" languages when discussing this topic. Pascal clearly has functions and procedures, C has only functions (as a concept, not as a keyword), C++ has functions and members.
The purpose of defining such concepts and terminology is so we may communicate.
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Anybody knows what happened to subroutines?
and procedures?
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Subroutines can't take parameters.
Procedures may remove your spleen.
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All these replies and no one nailed it: Methods are functions associated with a class.
A function is more general; all methods are functions, but not all functions are methods.
In C# non-method functions aren't allowed because each function must be associated with a class.
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Something I just discovered is that adding rows goes much faster if a sort has been applied first (setting the SortedColumn and SortOrder properties). I commented out those lines to see if they were needed for something else, and an (excessively) large set of input data I was using for performance/stress testing went from taking 25sec to load to over 200 sec.
Does anyone know *why* this is happening?
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I want to write IVR. But the pattern is used.
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You already wrote "IVR" twice. I fail to see the problem ...
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Help.
Has anyone managed to get GnuPG working from C#?
I have installed the latest version of GnuPG and downloaded the wrapper GnuPGWrapper from this site.
I've created a new registry key called HomeDir in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\GnuPG with a value
of "C:\Program Files\GNU\GnuPG\" the gpg.exe and keyring files are also in this location.
When I run my simple console application I get this error.
"Emmanuel.Cryptography.GnuPG.GnuPGException was unhandled
Message="gpg: keyblock resource `C:/Program Files/GNU/GnuPG\" --yes --batch --encrypt --armor --recipient crypto@turpin-distribution.com --default-key crypto@turpin-distribution.com --passphrase-fd 0 --no-verbose \\secring.gpg': file open error\r\ngpg: keyblock resource `C:/Program Files/GNU/GnuPG\" --yes --batch --encrypt --armor --recipient crypto@turpin-distribution.com --default-key crypto@turpin-distribution.com --passphrase-fd 0 --no-verbose \\pubring.gpg': file open error\r\ngpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.\r\ngpg: processing message failed: eof\r\n"
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Has anyone got a working example of this that they would be kind enough to post as I've now pulled all my hair out 
My console application looks like this..
using System;
using Emmanuel.Cryptography.GnuPG;
namespace FileSystemExample
{
class FileExample
{
public static void Main()
{
string inputText;
string outputText;
GnuPGWrapper gpg = new GnuPGWrapper();
gpg.command = Commands.Encrypt;
gpg.homedirectory = @"C:\Program Files\GNU\GnuPG\";
gpg.passphrase = "fred";
gpg.originator = "crypto@turpin-distribution.com";
gpg.recipient = "crypto@turpin-distribution.com";
inputText = "Hello World";
gpg.ExecuteCommand(inputText, out outputText);
Console.WriteLine("Input = {0}, Output = {1}", inputText,outputText);
}
}
}
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Seems like the main error is the following:
davidmgray_de wrote: file open error
davidmgray_de wrote: no valid OpenPGP data found
Have you tried the vendors website?? They might have better support on this product or have documentation available on how to use this.
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Good morning.
I am trying to remove any special characters in a string I pass.
I came across this code:
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
string = Regex.Replace(string, @"[^\w\.]", "");
It appear to work very well, except it doesn't "filter" out the underscore (_)character for some reason.
I was hoping someone could help me better understand what the
@"[^\w\.]", does and how I can add or remove something to filter out the underscore.
Thank you, WHEELS
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Try @"[^_\w\.]"
The regexp is actually just the this [^\w\.] - this is a character class (because its in []). The ^ immediately after [ says exclude any chars in the class. The \w says any char that is a word char (roughly letters and digits) and the \. says period. The \ are escapes w by itself matches the letter w and . by itself matches any char.
The @ is used in C# to prevent it processing \ as an escape in a string literal - without it you would have to use "[^\\w\\.]".
There's some good stuff to be found by googling for 'regular expressions c#'
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Thank you riced.
Any idea on how to rid the string from the (_) underscore?
WHEELS
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Did you try @"[^_\w\.]" ? Note the _ after the ^ I don't know why the underscore is staying in since AFAIK \w should only compare with letters or digits (but I've not used anything like this in C#).
Regards
David R
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Hi riced.
I read your response too quickly.
I tried
string = Regex.Replace(string, @"[^_\w\.]", "");
but unfortunately it didn't do the trick.
WHEELS
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