foobar

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"Variable in - terpolation"), so that a user with screen name foobar will see the text "User foobar created!"

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  • "Multiple FLAC (5 files, 12 tracks). cue" with foobar or AutoFLAC if you would like the five files displayed as twelve tracks instead of five. —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • After all, maybe the method foobar does the same thing as fizzbuzz, but foobar is a better description of the operation than fizzbuzz in some circumstances. —  TechRepublic Blogs
  • For example, the pattern: foo\Kbar matches "foobar", but reports that it has matched "bar". —  AutoHotkey Community
  • Get 1by1, it's even faster than foobar (i use both) —  Fileforum
  • It has been plausibly suggested that "foobar" spread among early computer engineers partly because of FUBAR and partly because "foo bar" parses in electronics techspeak as an inverted foo signal. foo-fighter n. —  LXer Linux News
 

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