A generic term meaning the process by which text transformed into a more meaningful or clearer output. A typical example would be the transformation of a decimal into a particular currency format with the correct number of decimal places.
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Rounding and formatting hours, minutes, seconds as HH:MM AM/PM
I have a program which is supposed to convert standard time to traditional time. (e.g: 15:24:31 = 3:25PM [rounded seconds])
I would like for someone to error check my code for me as well as give me ...
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Formatting a list of strings as a comma-separated string
I'm learning Haskell on my own and I'm following the material of a course.
I would like to know if this is idiomatic Haskell.
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Script to generate templated PHP code
I've created a script to create a module in our MVC framework
The structure of the module is like this (for this example, the module is called test
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Flexible presentation of a user's name based on a combination of available properties
The goal is to add a new displayValue property to each object depending on what it has available out of Firstname, ...
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Function to validate date format
I have this JavaScript function which checks if the format has 'yyyy' and replaces 'yy' with 'y':
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Python odd number diamond
I worked up a quick diamond program that takes only odd numbers while returning an error with even numbers or 0.
The code looks rather ugly to me, especially with the recurring ...
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Beginnings of a base-conversion game in Python
I'm pretty very new to python, so I thought that I'd write a game to teach me python and better teach me how to think in hexadecimal and binary. I'm starting off by writing a few functions to convert ...
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Padding a hexadecimal string with zeros
I'm given a hexadecimal number in string form with a leading "0x" that may contain 1-8 digits, but I need to pad the number with zeros so that it always has 8 ...
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Convert between two bases, each between 2 and 36
I'm doing some Python practice for fun and I wrote some code that converts between two bases. I'm thinking about expanding on this later, so the docstrings are pretty redundant from function to ...
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Print dict with varying-length lists
Is there a shorter way of taking a dict with varying length lists and printing it to screen? Shortcomings of this method also include that values which aren't lists are printed as letters separated by ...
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Retro Rocket ASCII Art
Inspired by Nested for-loop ASCII art, I looked at building a more complicated ASCII art than just the normal 'diamond' and 'triangle' variations that crop up occasionally here.
The challenge: ...
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Calendar Print Method
I'm currently learning Ruby and need help in editing code to be more idiomatic. I have the method below I could use some pointers on how to make more "Ruby" :-)
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Align Strings for Output
I wrote a class which can format input so that it is properly aligned.
I'm interested in all suggestions (regarding structure, usability, style, naming, comments, etc).
I'm especially wondering ...
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Validating lines in a file using certain specifications
I have written a program which basically reads a file named "data.txt" line-by-line. As a line is read, it validates the line with a certain specification. If the specification is met, it will ...
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Round division to two decimal places [closed]
I'm working on a revision of my electrical calculator. I used string formatting to round the answers it gives to two decimal places. On the operations that require multiplication (voltage, wattage), ...
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Format a number to include commas
This is my attempt to format a number and put commas where appropriate. I was wondering if this could be done in a simpler way.
It's used by calling ...
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Parsing and formatting a time two ways (perfectionistic approach)
I'm still not satisfied by the readability of the code. The wanted behavior which would be self descriptive would sound like: "I've two fields; one is for the date and one for the hour. This two ...
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“Nice Angles” - Code Eval challenge
Out of fun, I solved "Nice Angles" challenge on CodeEval in C# 4.0:
CHALLENGE DESCRIPTION:
Write a program that outputs the value of angle, reducing its
fractional part to minutes and ...
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sprintf for a microcontroller [closed]
I'm currently writing some code to running using a small micro controller, and need to implement a version of sprintf (the standard library version is too large). I ...
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writeln() and format() with variadic templates
I wanted to get better acquainted with variadic templates, so I decide to try to implement a function like D's writeln(), just for fun.
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Fully-working alternative to String.format(…)
PLEASE NOTE:
The code below has "commented out" code; however, no code is actually commented out!! Check my GitHub link below. I did that solely to highlight the relevant code sections. Code in my ...
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Implementation of *nix ipcalc
I posted a JS subnetting calc before, but I wanted to try a CLI version, so I made this.
The parts I'm most worried about are:
structure (could I refactor the layout better?)
Did I goof any math?
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How to better indent multiline strings with many string formatting args?
I have a function, that is used in flask, for logging application errors:
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Validate parameters within a range
Function to use several blocks of if:elif:else: that all take slightly different conditional statements. I'm trying to format integers into a 2 digit string, ...
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Go string formatting
I'm very new to Go, and am trying to get some experience by re-writing some of my Python code in Go. Below is a function that takes an IP address (ipv4) in integer form and returns the string ...
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Simple parsing for string formatting (version 2)
This is my second attempt (version 1) at writing a string formatting utility which uses parsing. This time I more explicitly designed it as a finite state machine. I have very little experience with ...
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A fraction of the code
Following up on this post, and including some major changes suggested, here's the revised code.
Changes include:
No longer keeping an IFormatProvider at instance ...
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Formattable Fraction
I have written this small little program, to test how my Fraction type behaves when used with and without a custom ...
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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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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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Scroll listener - about code style guidelines and standards
I'm an upstart, been only professionally programming for a bit less than 2 years, mainly in Java as I am currently working as an Android developer.
I often find myself thinking about how to improve ...
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A Lightweight Rich Link Label
This is my first post here - I hope I don't break any rules..
After reading the same question on SO about how to bold a word in a label for the nth time today, I decided to write a formatted Label.
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String representation of a polynomial
We all know that math notation is idiosyncratic. Canonical representation of math objects often have irregular grammar rules to improve readability. For example we write a polynomial \$3x^3 + x^2\$ ...
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Interface and implementation of this replacement for Rebol/Red REJOIN
This is a draft implementation of a function called COMBINE. It's not intended to be a complex formatting dialect, just a replacement for REJOIN that has a better name and more useful behavior. ...
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Java Cross with characters
I managed to make a perfectly even cross with for loops.
I'm trying to make this cross easier to code. I have to keep it with ...
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Shell script for creating CR questions
Inspired by Tool for creating Code Review questions.
This script generates a markdown document suitable for a CR question from a list of files. For each file it finds, it sends the following to ...
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Command line tools to format tables
I am a big fan of one-liners using sed awk perl and other tools. But there are that are ...
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Shortest possible way of printing a specific board
I am trying to print a board exactly like this with the multidimensional array.
char score[10][10] = {' '};
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Refactor Oxford Comma function (and other functions)
I wrote a program that managed projects and created a set of SQL files for each project. In the logic, I have a few functions that, each time I look at them, I wonder if they could be written in a ...
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Pretty print with unit and physical suffix II
Follow up of Pretty print with unit and physical suffix
My first code didn't process negative numbers correctly. Additionally I tried to use all of the helpful input to come up with this solution.
I ...
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Code for adjusting linelength
I wrote the following groovy function for taking a string of multiple lines (or any other character for splitting the code into parts), and bringing each line/part to a specified number of characters, ...
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Number formatting
As part of a simple (naive) internationalization attempt in Go, I am trying to come up with a number formatting routine with customizable decimal and thousands separator.
Is this approach alright?
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A better way to read text files into html?
Currently I'm making a website that has a to-do list that will probably become quite long to write in html. So I decided to make a shorter version for me to write that I find more comfortable to read.
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Building shape based on user input
The purpose of the below code is to build a shape based on the user input, specifically:
Prompt the user to enter a shape - either a triangle or a square
Determine which "texture" to use for the ...
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Vertically placing the words in a string
Please let me know a better approach to solve below problem:
Problem: Vertically arrange the words in a string and print on console.
Sample Input:
Hello Jack
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Format string inline
For this project, I do not have access to Boost or C++11.
Note: I updated the question's description to clarify what I am doing. I have not changed the code though, so no answer has been invalidated.
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Dealing with a dirty table
I have to deal with a really ugly looking response I get back from a particular device. The string represents a table. Each section of the string represents the form:
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Efficient way to sort a formatted array (Chris Pine book, ch 7)
I'm on chapter 7 of Chris Pine's book, trying to work on the last exercise in that chapter. This code works fine, but I'm wondering if there is a better way to do this...
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Auto-Format GPA while typing
I'm looking for a more cleaner and simpler solution to auto-format a text-box field intended only for the user to enter their college Grade Point Average (GPA). Here is my code:
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