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Output int from string input

This takes a string input like 1,2,3,4,5, splits it using , delimiter, converts each char to int and output it in a single line ...
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JavaScript function that returns all possible combinations of letters in a word

This is a JavaScript function that returns ALL the possible combinations of whatever word the user enters. I am looking to clean this code up a bit...any and all suggestions are welcome! ...
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Converting string array to string (and vice-versa) for storing via XML

I'm using XML to store data and I need to store a string array in it. The best way (that I can think of) to store a string array is by converting it to a single string. In order to do that, I'm using ...
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Identifying “Matching Bigrams” in Large Text Collection

I have a large number of plain text files (north of 20 GB), and I wish to find all "matching" "bigrams" between any two texts in this collection. More specifically, my workflow looks like this: for ...
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Finding common strings among 2 arrays of strings of length 1, sorted alphabetically in O(n) time complexity

The problem: Start with two arrays of strings, a and b, each in alphabetical order, possibly with duplicates. Return the count of the number of strings which appear in both arrays. ...
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Capitalize all words in sentence string in Ruby

I have created the following code: def LetterCapitalize(str) str = str.split(" ").each {|word| word.capitalize!} str = str.join(" ") return str end This ...
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Simple parsing for string formatting

Recently I submitted some string formatting and printing code (found here) that I wrote as an small exercise. It was implemented naively using string replacement. This time around I wanted to actually ...
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Segfault when trying to sort a linked list of names using a bubble sort [closed]

I am trying to sort a linked list in alphabetical order using bubble sort, but I am getting a segfault when I run the program. I can print off the names before sorting, but when I sort them and try to ...
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Memory-efficient string collection

My goal is to create a memory-efficient (immutable) collection of strings. The imagined use-case is checking for valid words in a Scrabble-like game. Wikimedia Commons has a pretty good summary of ...
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Replacing occurrences in NSString and NSMutableString

I ran it and it's working, but I just want someone to double check that I followed the directions. Any suggestions or corrections will be appreciated. Assume you have a ...
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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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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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Defining a zip code string

I'm following this ...
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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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Read a line from console in Java

I have to read a line of strings and split it for whitespace: ...
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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 ...