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Here is a quick list of some of the best places to search for sample code.

Google Code Search 

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Koders - Open Source Search Engine 

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Byte My Code 

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O'Reilly Code Search 

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Code Fetch 

Search the source code of programming books.

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Codease 

Searching 250 million lines of code

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snipplr 

Snipplr is a public source code repository that gives you a place to store and organize all the little pieces of code that you use each day. Best of all, it lets you share your code snippets with other coders and designers. Did we mention it works with TextMate, too? It's code 2.0.

DZone 

12818 users tagging and storing useful source code snippets

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Metrobase Component Finder 

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Krugle 

Explore over 2.5 billion lines of open source code with Krugle Public

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Code Archive 

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Other Open Source Sites 

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