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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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Check winner in a Tic Tac Toe game
I have the below code to check for a winner in a Tic Tac Toe game. I'm wondering if this is a good approach, and if there is a better way of doing this (maybe by monitoring the state of the board).
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Robots files generation - simplifying foreach code
I'm trying to figure out if there's a way I can simplify this code which is used to generate a robots.txt file with numerous rules. Different files/folders are separated in separate arrays because ...
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Is there a more elegant solution than this spaghetti code without completely revamping the whole page?
I use 'GROUP_CONCAT' to get comma separated lists of a person's educational background. Included in those lists are the type of degree, major, issuing establishment, and year received. ...
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Merge some child values back into the parent multidimensional array
This is a wonky PHP function I came up with to merge some select values from child arrays into the original. It could really use some help simplifying / making it more elegant.
Is there a built-in ...
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1answer
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Display PHP Menu Stored in an Array and Looped
I'm creating a PHP website for a non-profit. They have some restrictions (no MySQL or pre-installed CMS) so I'm creating a CSS menu displayed by an unordered list where all of the elements are stored ...
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Read an input text file and store the tokens in 2 different arrays
I am very new to Java so please ignore if there are obvious mistakes. If my question seems redundant then please guide me towards the correct link. However, I have surfed enough in order to find the ...
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Guessing a unique 4 random digits number
I've created a simple game, in which the user needs to guess 4 digits number between 0-9, generated randomly using Random() Each of the 4 digits are different from ...
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1answer
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Optimising Funny Marbles
Problem statement is at http://www.codechef.com/DEC13/problems/MARBLEGF
Lira is given array A, which contains elements between 1000 and 2000.
Three types of queries can be performed on this ...
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How can I make this mess of Java for-loops faster?
I'm trying to find all the 3, 4, 5, and 6 letter words given 6 letters. I am finding them by comparing every combination of the 6 letters to an ArrayList of words ...
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1answer
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Is there any better way to fetch two tables in one statement or query?
The 'Do' method is for prepared statements and returns (by fetchall()). I am also using two looping statements. Is there any better way to fetch two tables in one statement or query? If not, what ...
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Code to find the proper index comparing 3 values for max one
I have an algorithm and the idea is to move over an array choosing as index the index of the neighboring cell that has the max value.
I.e.
if array[i + 1][j + 1] has the largest value among the 3 ...
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1answer
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C arrays and loops optimization
I am writing a program for learning purposes that takes an input of a file structured similarly to:
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1answer
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Optimizing Python / Numpy Code
So I'm implementing a version of the mean shift image processing algorithm for color segmentation in python/numpy.
I've written a pure numpy version of the actual mean shifting per pixel (which I ...
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2answers
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Request for help to tidy up code involving arrays and loops
I posted the following code on here a few days ago:
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1answer
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Java 2d array nested loops
Okay, So I have this method I made that searches a 2d array of user input column length and row length comprised of integers. The method is suppose to find 4 alike numbers in rows, columns, and both ...
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1answer
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Downsampling boundaries of a 2D array
I have a linearized 2D array u (block_height * block_width) containing the values of a physical quantity over a regular 2D mesh. ...
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1answer
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Better method to loop through arrays in VBA
I supplied the following code as an answer to this question on SO, but I was wondering if there was a better way to write out all those array loops. (i.e. perhaps using a Collection/Dictionary?) It ...
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Optimize Array.indexOf
How can I optimize checking a value in recursion before operating on it? I'm using Array.indexOf (this is Javascript)
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2answers
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Splitting an array of numbers into all possible combinations
This takes an array of numbers then splits it into all possible combinations of the number array of size 4 then in another array puts the leftovers. As I want to take the difference in averages of ...
