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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Did I implement my string formatting code correctly?
As a small exercise I have written some string formatting and printing functions in C++11. I would like a bit of code review, not so much on the merits of using this over something like ...
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Splitting company name into 3 strings
I wrote an algorithm which should cut a companies name into 3 strings.
Input: 1 String
Output: 3 String.
Conditions:
String 1 2 and 3 shall not be longer then 35 signs. If the Input ...
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Haskell idioms in functions/arguments handling
I came up with this function rangedReplace as an exercice to use recursion and try different ways to make it work (I made at least 3 completely different versions). ...
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String manipulation [on hold]
I wrote the following code for parsing the inputs of type:
./a.out "0.0|10|-0.3|US,JA,PA,CH|0.25,0.25,0.25,0.25|IND,CH,CAN,GER|-1.0" "|" ","
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Tough List Comprehension Split Letters and Numbers
So, another challenge from my professor. I've finished it, but wanted to get some feedback, and see how other people might work this problem.
Assume you have a string, such as "Hello 34215 World ...
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Trie SPOJ Problem - PhoneList TLE
In this problem you are given input of phone numbers and you are supposed to determine whether any number is the prefix of another. I have an addchild method that ...
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Compare string with wildcard string
I have the following function to compare a string with a wildcard string (containing ? and *), as C# doesn't seem to have a builtin function to do it.
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Parsing time ranges with PyParsing
The following code is intended to parse a string of the following format and return whether the current time falls in that window:
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Method to return a string of max length (in bytes vs. characters)
In my (c#) code, I need to generate a string (from a longer string) which when UTF-8 encoded, is no longer than a given max length (in bytes).
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String matching algorithm
I have been going through algorithms and data structures and recently came across string matching algorithms. I have not yet wrapped my head around the significance KMP algorithm so I came up with ...
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Bi-directional atoi()
I am implementing atoi() by traversing a string from the beginning as well as from the end. Is there anything I can improve?
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Permutations program in Python
This code asks for letters and a number of letters per word and generates all possible permutations. Then compares those permutations with an English dictionary and creates a list with all the words ...
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Code Hunter 2.06: Count occurrences of 'a' in a string
I'm playing Code Hunt on level 2.06 (loops). This level is about counting the number of "a" in a String.
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More Pythonic version of finding substring with one glob-like expression
Giving the following example list the task is: find out whether the
second expression is in the first one. * shall be considered as a
wildcard for any ...
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Swift string multiplication
I like Ruby's string multiplication so I thought I'd see if I could do it in Swift. I came up with these implementations:
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Determine if one string occurs at the end of another
Exercise 5-4
Write the function strend(s,t), which returns one if the string t occurs at the end of the string ...
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Convert string to multiline text
I made this method that takes any string and transforms it into a multiline text l; each line having the max (character) length specified by the rowLength ...
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Converting the integers to their equivalent string representations
I have the following function which converts an integer (such as 103 to its string representation "one hundred three"):
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Given suffix array and a pattern, search if given pattern exists
Given a suffix array for a word, check if a pattern (consecutive chars) exists.
Example:
A suffix array constructed for "ameya" should return true for "ame" but false for "foo" or false ...
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Faster method to find data using search word?
I need to search through a string array to find every occurrence of "Parameters Table", and between each "Parameters Table" and the next, get another string from a specified index (that remains ...
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String self-similarity
It's a string problem I have been making on Hackerrank. It is executing fine on all test cases except the last two. These last two test case are declaring it "Terminated due to time out".
C programs ...
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String sanitisation function
I have a search function on my website. In addition, elsewhere I have a place where users can submit categories for their posts. I want the categories to have an uppercase first letter and the rest ...
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Manipulating filenames using Python
I was tasked with creating a script to be able to rename some files and then move them into different folders based on a code in the filename.
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Converting any PHP function toString() like in JS
In JavaScript, any function is basically an object on which you can call (function(){}).toString() to get it's underlying code as a string.
I'm working on a ...
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Text Analysis web page
For a homework assignment, I made a web page that has a text area. The user inputs some text, hits the analyse button, and the output is supposed to be a list of the frequency of words of a given ...
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Word counter script
I made a word counter. It works as long as there aren't any lone punctuation marks. How could it be improved? (Could it be made simpler? Are the comments detailed/clear enough? etc.) I know it's ...
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Check Abecedarian word
An 'abecedarian' is a word whose letters appear in alphabetical order.
Write a program which will determine whether the given word is
abecedarian or not and print ...
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Optimizing string replacement program that uses recursion
I have the following string replacement program for a string of size 256:
I am replacing the string
"\'"
with the string
'
Please suggest any modifications if needed or any ...
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Converting from std::wstring to std::string in Linux
I was bothered by inability of C++ to mix cout and wcout in the same program - so I've found this question:
Converting between ...
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Easiest way to remove extra spaces from user input?
What I want to do:
Take user input strings and add them together with proper spacing.
HTML:
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Breaking after one of several string replaces occur
I have a script that matches a string against ~20 different regexs for the purpose of changing it. They are ordered and formed that the string will only ever match against one. How can I avoid ...
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Z-Algorithm for pattern matching in strings
I was trying to refactor the following Python code (keeping the same time-complexity) which is an implementation of Z-Algorithm for pattern matching in strings.
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Convert hex string to byte array
The goal is to convert a hex string to a byte array with the following requirements:
\$O(1)\$ additional space apart from input and output.
\$O(n)\$ runtime
This mostly just prohibits creating a ...
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Displaying TimeSpan as largest interval (with units) - Part II
[This is a follow-up question to: Displaying TimeSpan as largest interval (with units). The code listed here has been refactored since the original question was posed. Please note that the scope of ...
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Displaying TimeSpan as largest interval (with units)
The following method is used in a call center application to display an approximation of remaining time. The call center telephone operator would inform the caller that they could perform their ...
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Bare-bones string library
After years of criticizing others, I've finally found the time and worked up the courage to polish up one of my bits of code and solicit criticisms of my own.
This is a simple dynamic-string library ...
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Searching for pseudo-palindromes (“semordnilaps”)
I was interested to know which words of the English language, when spelled backwards, are still valid words (e.g. "drawer", which when spelled backwards is "reward"), so I wrote a small program to go ...
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Operations on strings in Java
I have a program that makes operations on strings and this is the principal function of one of those operations. This works perfectly, but it is not efficient:
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Beautifying Dates
There has got to be a better way to do this. I have a method which returns either your standard "01/01/2014" Date or "January 1st, 2014" Date of the assembly file write time. Any suggestions on ...
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Mimic sprintf with std::string output
I know that stringstreams are the C++ recommended way to create formatted text. However, they can often become quite verbose, especially when compared to the succinct format strings of ...
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Return custom assembly attribute variables
I have a custom attribute in my assembly called SemverAttribute, and I have a helper class called AppInfo that has a function to return a number called the Semver number. It accepts an id of null-6. ...
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Shorten code to perform search based on four slash-delimited parameters
How can I make this code more compact?
It is a ASP.net WebForms project
It is a SinglePageApplication for searching in list mode and map mode.
I have many paths for a page.
/Denmark
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Wordgenerator algorithm using Java collection
Problem Statement
Prompt the user for the order
statistic n: 1, 2, 3, etc.
Read a file of tokens, building a map
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Stripping out all /* */ comments from a paragraph
I've written this code keeping the following cases in mind and I think I've covered them all. I'd really appreciate if someone could help me determine if I've covered all of them.
Cases I considered:
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