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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Number of words in a string
I wrote this pretty simple program (it's an exercise from a book). It counts the words in a simple string. The book is a very old one (I think it's from 2003) and uses char arrays. Because of this, I ...
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How can I map dynamic index in the string using c# [on hold]
string originaltext = "A man meet a man";
charArray[0]='A';
charArray[1]=' ';
charArray[2]='m';
charArray[3]='a';
charArray[4]='n';
charArray[5]=' ';
charArray[6]='m';
charArray[7]='e';
...
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Automatically indent a whole block of text into str.format
I wondered if there was any better way of doing so.
I had a hard time figuring it out (it seemed nobody else already tried to do so).
import re
import string
class BetterFormat(string.Formatter):
...
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Python abilities on strings
the Encoding scheme is given below:
Don't replace the characters in the even places. Replace the characters in the odd places by their place numbers . and if they exceed 'z', then again they ...
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Is there a better way of making an NSString with many argument values?
I have a form that I'm turning into a string value for an email, but the string value that I turn it into seems very complicated, plus I believe this way takes up a lot of memory and is somewhat slow ...
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Random String generator in C
I created this small function just to practice C code.
It's a simple random string generator.
#include <string.h>
#include <time.h>
char *randstring(int length) {
static int ...
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Efficient way to copy unordered String into ordered String
I'm doing this in Hadoop Java where I'm reading a String. The string is huge that has been tokenized and put in an array. It has key-value pairs but they are not in any order. I want this order to be ...
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String Interpolation / Word Matching with XML in C#
I'm working on a project where I need to map XML values to field names. Classic CS problem, I think I've got a pretty good approach but would like feedback.
For example: breachReportType matches to ...
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Custom Script Editor
I'm making my own script editor (in this case for Arma: Cold War Assault) because I want to learn and this is challenging enough.
Let me just get this out of the way: please don't tell me that I ...
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vote
1answer
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Ruby string splicer
So I came across an interesting problem awhile back, and I finally got around to solving it. Basically, it needs to allow the user to provide two words, and have them progressively splice together, ...
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1answer
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Trim certain characters from a string in javascript
I want to remove not only spaces, but certain characters aswell from the beginning or end of a javascript string.
function trim(str, characters) {
var c_array = characters.split('');
var ...
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Implementation of String object as an exercise
I am reading "Object-Oriented JavaScript" by Stoyan Stefanov to learn JavaScript and in the end of the chapter named "Objects", there's an exercise that asks you to implement your own String object. I ...
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A better approach to parsing this file name in Java?
I am creating a file uploader, and one function of the uploader will parse the file name to make sure that it is in the correct format.
This is the proper format of the file name: ...
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Split and word count in go
Could it be written better?
package main
import (
"code.google.com/p/go-tour/wc"
"fmt"
)
func WordCount(s string) map[string]int {
dict := make(map[string]int)
splited := Split(s)
...
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1answer
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String processing in JavaScript
We have a lot of phone numbers that contain dashes and start with a zero which are from another country.
I am trying to strip the dashes and the one leading zero and select the country code from a ...
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Remove specific consecutive element in array
I'm trying to reduce consecutive elements of array to one, but not for all values like:
{3,0,0,0,3,3,3,0,0,0} => {3,0,3,0}
but for specific one, in my example 0:
{3,0,0,0,3,3,3,0,0,0} => ...
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PHP spell checker with suggestions for misspelled words
I built a simple PHP spellchecker and suggestions app that uses PHP's similar_text() and levenshtein() functions to compare words from a dictionary that is loaded into an array.
How it works is ...
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Java input string from .csv file [closed]
I am very new to Java and I am trying to compile "+" in the file Reactions.csv. Here's what I have so far:
// Trial.java
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import ...
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votes
2answers
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How to refactor this Ruby method?
The new_string code in this method does not seem idiomatic.
The goal is to not mutate the string passed in, which I believe is a good practice.
This method changes all URL's in the string into an ...
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reading input from keyboard
I am required to read from an keyboard(stdin), the following text. Pl note that it will be entered by user from keyboard in this format only.
#the total size of physical memory (units are B, KB, MB, ...
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String Matching
I recently came across a lecture on DFA. I tried to use it to determine whether a given 'search string' is found in the 'input string'. Please tell me if there is a better way
(display "Enter input ...
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JavaScript regular expression literal as string literal
Please refer to this question for more discussion.
JavaScript string literal sometimes to many escaping slashes. The following address this problem by converting a regular expression literal into a ...
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String manipulation in Java
Here is the question followed by my program which works good
Given a string, return a version without the first 2 chars. Except keep the first char if it is 'a' and keep the second char if it is 'b'. ...
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Ruby: refactor simple string method for aligning DSV text
GOAL:
Accept DSV strings where the delimiter may consist of more than one character
Accept DSV strings where there are no embedded delimiters
Output text with no modification to the source string ...
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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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1answer
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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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Elegant function to “increase” a JavaScript string - for example, turning “aac” into “aad”
I'm writing a function to increase a string so, for example, "aac" becomes "aad" and "aaz" becomes "aba". The result is horribly inelegant, I can't get it simple enough and I feel I'm missing ...
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Can this string parse be improved?
My data is in this format:
龍舟 龙舟 [long2 zhou1] /dragon boat/imperial boat/\n
And I want to return:
('龍舟', '龙舟', 'long2 zhou1', '/dragon boat/imperial boat/')
In C I could do this in one line with ...
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Python 3: Finding common patterns in pairs of strings
I have written a piece of code that finds common patterns in two strings. These patterns have to be in the same order, so for example "I am a person" and "A person I am" would only match "person". The ...
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A reliable way to remove consecutive appearances of a substring
I'm attempting to write a piece of code that is supposed to remove consecutive appearances of a string (not a single character) in a StringBuilder.
It's extremely important that the method works well ...
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Skiena's Programming Challenge [UVa ID 10137]- Getting WA
Question from Skiena's Programming Challenges.
Getting WA (wrong answer) in Online Judge even though it's working for sample test cases. Can somebody find a case where it fails?
I tried the tricky ...
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Longest common substring
I wrote a program to find the longest common subsequence among several strings. I used a naive algorithm and implementation.
The motivation was solving the Rosalind problem at ...
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Flexible multiple string comparision to determine variable value
I've a web form that allows users to create clusters of three sizes: small, medium and large. The form is sending a string of small, medium or large to a message queue, were job dispatcher determines ...
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Nicely tabulate a list of strings for printing
I have a list of strings of variable lengths, and I want to pretty-print them so they are lining up in columns. I have the following code, which works as I want it to currently, but I feel it is a ...
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Trim function in C
I am trying to write an idiomatic trim function in C. How does this look? Should I instead malloc the new string and return it?
void trim(const char *input, char *result)
{
int i, j = 0;
for (i = ...
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split up a string into whitespace-seperated fields
I am trying to improve my C skills, and I hope someone might be able to provide me with some feedback on the following code. I avoid strtok function intentionally.
#define MAX_SIZE 1000
int ...
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String Building
Before, I had this code, sometimes it is longer:
String dbEntry = "idBldgInfo = '" + currentBldgID + "',scenario = '305',installCost='" +
installCost + "',annualSave='" + annualSave + ...
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custom cmdline implementation
The below program takes the inputted string from commandline and parses it and calls the corresponding function.
commands are either single word or multiple words.
say for e.g.
-#version ...
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Inefficient usage of string.format?
I have some sample code where I used string.Format but after reading about benchmark performances by other people I believe that it may be better to do multiple appends by a StringBuilder
Here is the ...
