Oct 10, 2010 — Find the Longest Reversed Substring in a String — This function takes in a string, “stringy,” and finds the longest reversed substring (palindrome) in the larger string. So, racecar would be an example because it is the same thing backwards and forwards! I basically did it by identifying all... Read more

Oct 5, 2010 — Automated Reminder Emails and Text Messages with Matlab and Batch — I’ve worked about 35 hours in the past four days putting together an automated reminder system for our lab. I basically have a batch script working with two matlab scripts, GMail calendars, and various data files to send automatic email... Read more

Oct 2, 2010 — Convert Military Time to User Friendly String — I want to share this, because it could be useful in many contexts. I am working on a script that downloads information from a Google Calendar, and automatically sends reminder emails based on a user specified time. Given that the... Read more

Sep 11, 2010 — Get rid of carriage returns using tr — Kristin recently had a script that, for some mysterious reason, was in Windows format! (the error output obviously indicated the presence of carriage returns!). In my troubleshooting, this was the command that fixed it! tr -d ‘\15\32’ fixed_script.sh Read more