A string is a sequence of zero or more characters. It is commonly used to represent text or a sequence of bytes. Use this tag along with the appropriate programming language being used.

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Using for loop to get the Hamming distance between 2 strings [closed]

So i'm having some trouble with this code. i need to get the Hamming distance (the Hamming distance between two strings of equal length is the number of positions at which the corresponding symbols ...
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Program gives to a word special numerical value. I need help to upgrade my code [closed]

Program checks each letter of the string one by one and calculates the sum of the numerical values of each letter i have applied. I need your help to not let program count value of "i" teller if it ...
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High School Java Class: Pong Project External Reviewer

Panelball class: import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.KeyEvent; import javax.swing.*; public class Panelball extends JPanel implements Runnable { private static final long ...
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Java - Is this the correct implementation of a timer/timertask to destroy a process that overruns a defined time limit

I was wondering if this is the correct implementation of a times task to destroy a thread after it overruns a predefined time period: it works by creating a getting the thread from ...
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Generating random strings

I've created the following string manipulation function for randomizing my passed string in Lua: require "string" require "math" math.randomseed( os.time() ) function string.random( self ) ...
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LISP - Modify string

I have to write a program that changes a string's vowels, consonants and other symbols into C, V respectively 0. I've done this but I wonder if there is a more efficient and elegant way to do it. ...
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How could this postfix notation program be improved?

My postfix program allows the user two options one option for calculating a postfix equation: * Confirmations after each input (after an input, the user is ask for another number, operator, or final ...
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string to integer (implement atoi)

Implement atoi to convert a string to an integer. Requirements for atoi: The function first discards as many whitespace characters as necessary until the first non-whitespace character is ...
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Faster JavaScript fuzzy string matching function?

I'm using the following function to fuzzy match strings: function fuzzy_match(str,pattern){ pattern = pattern.split("").reduce(function(a,b){ return a+".*"+b; }); return (new ...
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JAVA, Twitter4j insert tags around entities in body

Because we're passing object to Spring Framework in which Jackson classes convert them into JSON as a reposnse we chose to Implement more simple Tweet class rather than the twitter4j provided Status ...
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Length of last word

Given a string s consists of upper/lower-case alphabets and empty space characters ' ', return the length of last word in the string. If the last word does not exist, return 0. Note: A word is ...
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Dynamically allocated C strings in C++, concatenation, pointers, etc

I'm writing a small Win32 Console app that manipulates the contents of binary files. It accepts the filename as a command line parameter and writes to a file named filename.scramble This is the first ...
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Crtitique my Haskell function 'capitalize'

I am a Haskell beginner. I wrote the following function that takes a string and returns a new string with each word capitalized: first letter uppercase, following letters lower-cased. It works, but I ...
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Get metadata from an Icecast radio stream

I am new to Python and not very familiar with advanced Python data structures. I have written a function to receive data from a socket in Python and perform string manipulations on it. The basic ...
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Too slow two strings comparer

I have 2 strings for example: abcabc and bcabca or aaaabb and abaaba I checked that second string is the same or not like first string but shifted. bcabca = ..abca + bc... Here is code it works ...

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