The phrase "a segment of code" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific portion or snippet of programming code within a larger codebase.
Example: "In order to optimize the application, we need to analyze a segment of code that handles user authentication."
Alternatives: "a piece of code" or "a block of code".
For example, timing instructions may be used to ensure that a segment of code has repeatable timing behavior, or that when a timing requirement is violated, an exception handler is invoked to appropriately address the timing violation.
The idea is that if someone over on one side of a production team needs something (like a segment of code), they should have some kind of intuitive way for finding it rather than having to start an email chain with dozens of people on it.
Multi-line comments are useful for writing a long explanation, or for preventing a segment of code from being processed.
In a separate attack on India's military and intelligence servers two weeks ago, a different group of hackers managed to find and post a segment of source code belonging to Symantec, the largest security software company.
To measure the degree of genetic differentiation between the Atlantic and Pacific sub-populations of either yellowfin or skipjack tuna, we examined the hypervariable control region I (CR-I) and a segment of a coding region gene of the respective mitochondrial DNAs.
To investigate the occurrence of RtPc elements, a segment of the coding sequence for reverse transcriptase was PCR amplified from the genomic DNA of 31 isolates, including Pb01-like P. lutzii isolates and isolates belonging to the Paracoccidioides phylogenetic lineages S1, PS2 and PS3 from the P. brasiliensis complex (Table 3, Figure 3).
The hackers later posted a second file on Pastebin, which is no longer available, that Symantec confirmed contained a "segment" of the source code for the enterprise products.
In a person with Friedreich's ataxia, a segment of the genetic code on chromosome number 9 can have as many as 1,000 repetitions, instead of the normal range of 7 to 22.
"Symantec can confirm that a segment of its source code used in two of our older enterprise products has been accessed, one of which has been discontinued," Cris Paden, a spokesman for Symantec, said in an email on Friday.
For what concerns our PGA, as it is shown in Figure 1, the algorithm consists of the following sequential steps Set Simulation Environment and Set and Share the Population, for the configuration and the synchronization of the machines and a pure parallel segment of code inside the Loop on the n.
A segment of DNA that codes for the cell's synthesis of a specific protein is called a gene.
