[skyhawk133]

Alrighty, EVERYONE has asked for this at least once, and up until now I did not have a good solution, but tonight, I present to you.... syntax highlighting in the forums!

The old [code] tag is still available, but now you can use [code=language] to highlight the code you're posting.

Here's an example:
[code=php]echo 'Hello World';[/code]

Looks like this:

echo 'Hello World';

Or a little better example, this time using "cpp" for the language:

string StringToUpper(string strToConvert)
{//change each element of the string to upper case
   for(unsigned int i=0;i<strToConvert.length();i++)
   {
      strToConvert[i] = toupper(strToConvert[i]);
   }
   return strToConvert;//return the converted string
}

string StringToLower(string strToConvert)
{//change each element of the string to lower case
   for(unsigned int i=0;i<strToConvert.length();i++)
   {
      strToConvert[i] = tolower(strToConvert[i]);
   }
   return strToConvert;//return the converted string
}

You MUST type the language in all lower case, and it MUST be one of the following languages:

• cpp
  
• csharp
  
• css
  
• delphi
  
• java
  
• jscript
  
• php
  
• python
  
• ruby
  
• sql
  
• vb
  
• xml
  

So just another example of how to use the new code tag: [code=vb] would highlight Visual Basic, or (I believe) VB.NET, and [code=csharp] will highlight in C# mode.

Go ahead and test it out in this thread, and start using it when you post!!!

Enjoy.

[csmanoj]

Oh wow that's awesome!

int SayIt(int number)
{
    int i = number;
    string s = "Great feature";
    while(i>0)
    {
        cout<<s<<endl;
        i--;
    }
    cout<<"I've said it "<<number<<" times.\n";
    return 0;
}

This post has been edited by csmanoj: 20 February 2008 - 08:04 PM

[Louisda16th]

Yay! Finally its here! This is something I've been looking forward to. Great work Chris.

[RodgerB]

Thanks very much for this, it was a much needed feature (for me anyway, it really helps me to be able to read code with colour).

While i < 5
    Console.WriteLine("LOLZ")
    i += 1
End While

Ah the fun.

[Mikhail]

It does work! Thanks to whoever made this.

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
     printf ("Hello World \n");

     return 0;
} 

[Nykc]

document.write('This is pretty slick');

This post has been edited by Nykc: 20 February 2008 - 08:12 PM

[Louisda16th]

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim n As Integer  'Number of rows
        Dim i As Integer, j As Integer  'Counters
        Dim term As Integer

        Dim CurrRow() As Integer       'Current Row
        Dim NextRow() As Integer       'Next Row

        n = Val(InputBox("Enter number of rows"))

        ReDim CurrRow(2)
        ReDim NextRow(3)
        CurrRow(1) = 1

        For i = 1 To n
            TextBox1.Text += Space(n - i)
            For j = 1 To i
                term = CurrRow(j - 1) + CurrRow(j)
                TextBox1.Text += Str(term)
                NextRow(j) = term
            Next j
            TextBox1.Text += vbNewLine
            ReDim CurrRow(i + 2)
            CurrRow = NextRow
            ReDim NextRow(i + 3)
        Next i
    End Sub

I llove this !

[bhandari]

System.out.println("Is this really good");

yes it is....

[TheMagnitude]

Nice work!!!!

[PennyBoki]

It looks really cool. But I have a question though, when we ask new users to use code tags, should we ask them to use syntax highlighting or just the plain old ?

I think only the answerers of the questions will use this feature. Anyways it looks cool like this, I like it

[Jayman]

PennyBoki, as long as they at least use the code tags I don't really care.

The key is just to get them to use them period.

[MitkOK]

class Welcome

  def sayHello
       puts "Working nice !"
  end

end

[Bench]

Cool stuff - That helps alot when posting code

I'm sure that 99% of the "one-off" posters will still forget to use it, but its great for those of us who post here alot,

One query though - is there a way to let it use a fixed width font? that just makes it a little bit easier to line things up

This post has been edited by Bench: 21 February 2008 - 02:08 AM

[PsychoCoder]

for(int i = 0;i < DIC.Length;i++)
{
    Console.WriteLine("You rock Chris!");
}

[ajaymatrix]

nice feature..