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Removing accents from certain characters
I have a method that I am using to remove accents from certain characters. The problem is the massive slew of characters I am expected to work with. I have to, basically, remove accents from all Latin ...
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Printing the number in large size
Problem Description
Receive a 5 digit number and print out in a large size.
Sample input 32145
Sample output
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Finding the first non-repeating character in a string
Below is a problem I encountered during an online course. There are a lot of similar questions asked on this, but I couldn't find a solution there as well as I believe my specific issue is a bit ...
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Search string for a substring - indexOf
I am trying to write my own implementation of indexOf for learning purposes. I have an implementation of as follows. I'm sure a more efficient and shorter ...
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String reversal, capitalize vowels, lowercase consonants
This was a portion of a skills test given to me by a company. The task was to write a method that takes a string, reverses it, and sets the vowels as capitals and consonants to lowercase. I was also ...
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Return the first word in the image name
I just want to return the first word in the image name (before the dash, dog in my example). Now I use it like this but believe it can be done in a simpler way ...
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Rearranging array - with empty strings in front and non-empty strings at back
Given a string array that either contains empty strings or non-empty
strings, arrange the contents such that all the empty strings are at
front and non-empty strings at back, retaining their ...
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Korean Romanization to Hangeul library
After a little work, I've finally ironed this out... Though could I get someone to go over this and see if there is a better way to present this library within the code, before I publish it?
Premise: ...
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Text Analyzer - Properly implementing Java coding style
As a new Java learner I would like to improve my coding style.
I wrote a program which gets as an input a file name, and asks for two file names for the output.
The first output file includes all the ...
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Return all words which have their reverse present in a string
Problem Statement:
Given a string of words return all words which have their reverse present in the string as ( (word1 , reverseword1 ) , (word2 ,reverseword2) )
Example Case:
Input:
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Simple string-root detection in a string-family
(this problem is related to Simple string-split by root and sufix algorithm )
There are many ways to find a "common root" of a list of similar strings, that begins with the same substring... The ...
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Simple string-split by root and sufix algorithm
A classic problem to split a string into its "root and suffix":
(Stemming) The word "walk" is the base form for word "walking" (suffix is "ing");
The file path ...
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Reversing strings using recursion
I'm trying to solve exercises where I am required to use recursion. I wrote this:
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First non-repeated character
Challenge description is here need to find the first non repeated character from the string:
Write a program which finds the first non-repeated character in a string.
Input sample:
The ...
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Phone List challenge
To learn Haskell, I've been going at this challenge, which is to check a list of phone numbers to ensure that no number is a prefix of another. However, my code is way too slow. I am really new to ...
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`std::vector` 'substring concatenator'
The point of this is to concatenate a vector of std::strings into one string starting at an index of the vector.
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Searching a string of consecutive characters in a binary bar code
I am writing a program that will take a binary bar code and convert it to a zip-code. I need to validate the bar code. A valid binary bar code contains no more and no less than two 1s in any position ...
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Article start exercise
I've used encountered this exercise from a tutorial:
Create a function that takes a string as a parameter and returns True if the initial word of the string ...
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Checking if all the characters from an A-Z is present in the string
A string is said to be complete if it contains all the characters from
a to z. Given a string, check if it complete or not.
Input First line of the input ...
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Replacing all occurrences in a String
I have a string like this :
val content = "some_text{macro1}another_text{macro2}text"
I want to replace the {macro1} and ...
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Constructing a query string using StringBuilder
I speedily wrote a bunch of crappy checks, to check whether strings are empty, in order to build a query string.
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Build a dictionary based on split string
I've written a simple script that takes a string filled with brackets and strings and builds them to a dictionary.
Example Input:
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Constructing Unique String Sequence
I am brushing up on my Java skills by trying to solve the below assignment problem I found on the internet:
Write a Java method that accepts two strings as parameters and returns
a string that ...
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Create Java object from from page content or plain text
My job is to make a specified java objects from web page that contains following text:
Companies:
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Longest substring with unique characters
Find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters
Any comments on my code?
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C++ Pig Latin program
I'm just wanting some input on to how others would approach this problem. I am learning and wish to gain insight on others techniques. Be as critical as you need. I want to learn. I feel this code is ...
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Simple syntax highlighter in Javascript - SQL highlighting
Yesterday and today I've made a very basic syntax highlight.
It creates a function in the window object that handles part of the job:
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Next revision letter
This is a fun one! I wrote some code to automatically get the next revision letter for a file by looking at the existing letter. It works, but I think there is room for improvement as far as ...
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Taking advantage of the falsey and ineffective “” empty string
The following code snippets are academic. I was required to make a PHP generated HTML interface for a MySQL database of a movie rental store, and the requirement was filtering the displayed movies by ...
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Count balanced substring
Chandan got bored playing with the arrays all the time. Therefore he has decided to buy a string \$S\$ consists of \$N\$ lower case letters. Once he purchased the string, He starts formulating his own ...
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Extracting a sentence containing a specific word from a longer text
My goal is to return a specific sentence in a story that contains a given word. Returns null if the word is not in the story. I'm ok with returning the first ...
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Neatly printing integers interspersed with spaces - follow-up
See the previous iteration.
At this point, I have
"digit group" length assumed to be always 3
the user can pass the delimiter character of his/her own
handles (seems to handle) the minus sign ...
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Neatly printing integers interspersed with spaces
The next iteration is here.
I have this small method for printing long integers neatly. For example:
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Word Guessing Game
I'm trying to learn Java (albeit rather slowly). I'm in a computer science class at my highschool and I've written this little bit of code for a project. Basically it is a word guessing game where if ...
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Expanding a string to a certain length
I wrote a function for repeating a string to a certain length.
For example:
ExpandString("Test", 11);
// output: "TestTestTes"
Are there any optimizations ...
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Phone keypad implementation
I was wondering, beyond the standard improvements that this needs, is there a more "clever" way of solving this problem?
The problem is to translate letters into digits without changing the format of ...
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Boolean expressions from infix to postfix notation using Dijkstra's Shunting Yard algorithm
I began working on a Java library that receives a boolean expression such as not A and (B or not C), compiles it to a circuit of logical gates \$\mathcal{C}\$, ...
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Create a list of all strings within hamming distance of a reference string with a given alphabet
For a bioinformatic problem, I found myself wanting to create a list of strings within Hamming distance "k" of a reference sequence. I wanted to do so quickly and pythonically. I've implemented it in ...
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A little integer parser vs clean code
I was said to post this as a new question. I improved my code from:
Little part of the string to integer parser vs Clean Code
However I think that it break SRP as it parses, iterates through string ...
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String trim functions with destination size limitation
3 string trimming functions:
Trim whitespace from the beginning of a string.
Trim whitespace from the end of a string.
Trim whitespace from both ends of a string.
Looking to improve code ...
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Little part of the string to integer parser vs Clean Code
I started reading a Clean Code book and some other articles on the Internet about OOD and design patterns and I'm a little confused. I've started to code a little string to integer parser which ...
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Console app to compare all directory names for similarity
I just got the urge to write a small console app to compare all directories name for similarity. I have > 3000 directories and over time some of them are really similar, eg. an update: Test Case ver 1 ...
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Getting a substring of a delimited string
I have some underscore-delimited strings like abc_def_ghi. I would like to get a substring out of the string made of one or more delimited substrings, so that if I ...
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Checking whether two strings are isomorphic
I was trying to solve a problem to determine if 2 strings are isomorphic. They are isomorphic when each character in string one can be replaced with another character in string 2. Two different ...
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Text-to-Morse Code translator [closed]
I'm curious if anyone can come up with a better code structure (loops, checks) than what I have done. I need to change the structure because my teacher was unhappy with the for loop and if else's for ...
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Join 5 optional strings with a joiner character
I need to append some query parameters to my API URL. The consumer of my API would pass me this optional structure called as APIParameters, which contain 5 optionals, one array of strings and rest ...
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Injecting the Maharajah into the Barbarous Child's introduction
I'm building a random text generator!
My idea was to borrow slightly from the string.Format method styling, have a "format string" that controlled the overall ...
