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[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[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.

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 Feb, 2008 - 07:04 PM

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

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.

It does work! Thanks to whoever made this.

#include <stdio.h>

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

     return 0;
} 

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

This post has been edited by Nykc: 20 Feb, 2008 - 07:12 PM

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 !

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

yes it is....

Nice work!!!!

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

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.

class Welcome

  def sayHello
       puts "Working nice !"
  end

end