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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Convert data back-and-forth between CSV files and pretty-print
I wrote a script to convert CSV files in human readable format and vice versa.
Human readable format is achieved like so:
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JLabel formatting on GPA calculator
I am currently working on a GPA Calculator side project over holiday break to become more familiar with Swing, but I find the number formatting is more complicated than in regular Java. At the moment ...
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K&R 1-21 write an “entab” program
From K&R exercise 1-21,
Write a program entab that replaces strings of blanks by the minimum
number of tabs and blanks to achieve the same spacing. Use the same
tab stops as for detab. ...
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Function to format the local time
This is a statement that I use a lot in my code base:
(LocalDateTime.now()).format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("ssmmHHddMMMuu"))
Should I create a static method ...
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Format of hexeditor
Is there a cleaner way to write this code? It's the start of a hexeditor I'm creating.
I'm aware that the variables aren't descriptive, this is just a test run for when I imbed it into a File ...
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Parsing users from a list of commands for email notifications
I want to make a list of the last words on each line of a file that looks like this:
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Print multiplication tables
Write a function that given a max argument will print a nicely aligned multiplication tables, for example, if max = 8
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String formatting of unit types
I have a units of measure library that I added string formatting to. Here is sample code:
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Centering a line of text
I need a procedure that "centers" a string inside a string that is consecutive characters of a fixed length. For instance,
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Function to wrap words in a text editor without breaking them
These are 3 functions I created in C language to read in a text file, remove the carriage returns from it in order to display on the screen, and display the file on screen wrapped with the words of ...
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Formatting “Bond, JAMES (Mr)”
I need to call this function over a big dataset. I need it to be as efficient as possible but still be readable. Can I make it anymore efficient by using a different function for capitalize or blank ...
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Printing polynomials
I am taking a class on ruby and our assignment is to take user input and print out a polynomial. Wondering if I can get any feedback to how to improve my code.
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Perl code that breaks a line after fixed number of columns
Here is a simple program that I created to print a file by breaking it after a fixed number of columns. I feel it can be optimized but not sure how. Any feedback is great.
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Normalizing `DateTime` values to strings
I have this as part of a project to normalize DateTime values to more readable strings, localized to the relative time in the past that they happened.
It allows ...
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Number to german decimal format converter function [closed]
I have a function that formats a number (even a float) to a German decimal format. I got this function from here ...
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A Scala script for beautify scientific notation strings from Excel
Excel renders scientific notation in the engineering fashion, e.g. “4.2E-5”. That’s OK, but when you are writing a scientific paper, it’s likely that you want it to look like this: “4.2×10⁻⁵”.
I have ...
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Updating a clock display with the time
Originally, I was going to post a question about how to condense four repetitive functions into a single function, but I wound up figuring it out myself before I could even post it.
However, the ...
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Using changeable column formatting to display table
When answering python tuition calculator v2, I got a little carried away, and started building a print_table() function which I don't like the resulting code for, ...
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Aligning text in Haskell
This Haskell program just aligns the text lines on the given substrings.
I took inspiration from here, but my code is not golfed.
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Replacement string Base64 (and a Base32) conversion [closed]
This provides (my own) implementation of ToBase64String and FromBase64String (since the .NET implementations suck), and a ...
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Parse a plain text newsletter and show it with nicer markdown formatting
I wrote some code to parse an e-mailed events newsletter I'm on and redisplay it with better formatting. I like the output, but I'm not thrilled with the code. It feels like there's a lot of ...
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Stream manipulating indenter
I've always wanted to be able to steer stream indentation, so that I could write code like this:
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Phone number format and data entry restriction
I created a form that formats phone numbers, allows only allowable keys to be pressed, and converts a lettered entry into its corresponding phone keypad number. Is there some cleanup or better coding ...
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Significant Figures Formatting.00
I wrote this for an SO question on formatting numbers to specific quantities of significant figures (after all, reinventing-the-wheel), anyway, all critiques welcome.
It's pretty easy to use, ...
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Twisting words! (boustrophedon formatting)
I decided to implement properly the Code Golf challenge about twisting strings. I report the assignement verbatim for convenience:
Twisting Words!
Given a string and a positive integer. You ...
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ANSI colors cross platform
I am trying to write for both NT and POSIX (my two usual platforms) and have come up with the code below. The clrs code I refer to is apparently from blender build ...
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printf-style string formatter
As part of a larger project I'm working on, I've made a function that aims to replicate, as best as I can, the placeholder part of the console.log() function usable ...
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Printing a text rectangle
I'm starting C as my first language and am just under halfway done the book I'm using. However, I commonly hear about 'bad' programmers and 'bad' code whenever I encounter any sort of programming ...
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A custom Pandas dataframe to_string method
Oftentimes I find myself converting pandas.DataFrame objects to lists of formatted row strings, so I can print the rows into, e.g. a ...
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Date formatters, lazily instantiated once
I would like to create two date formatters only on first call. In Objective-C I would use dispatch_once() but now working in Swift. Am I doing it correctly? My code ...
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Returning the length of the File in B/KB/MB
The method length() in File returns the length of a file in Bytes, this code transforms that into b/kb/mb as can be seen in the ...
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How much time is left?
rags-to-riches of Convert seconds to hours, minutes and seconds.
In that question, BigDecimal was chosen to be the model class, which doesn't seem like a right fit ...
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Implementing SQL function STR
I am writing a piece of code in c# that mimics the behaviour of following SQL function STR in the following case:
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Dump hash in columns
I tried to answer the question "How to print a hash in Perl, such that 3 key value pairs are printed on each line?" like this.
As I got an uncommented downvote, I'd like to ask: What's wrong with/How ...
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Sample printf implementation
Here is my code for printf() implementation in C. Please share your thoughts for improvements.
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Rust language tag implementation
language-tags is my first crate, it is hosted on GitHub and I uploaded it to Crates.io. It parses language tags like en-US into useful parts, like language and ...
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YUIDoc syntax for optionally static constructor
In JavaScript, I wrote a class that can be optionally instantiated with the new keyword, but can also be called statically as well. What is the best way to ...
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Triangled printing
This code prints numbers in a triangled way, such as:
1
12
123
12
1
This is the code:
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Get an integer as input and display Pi rounded to that amount of decimal places
I've been writing a program that accepts an integer as input and displays the number Pi rounded to that number. The only issue I see is the fact that the Math.Round ...
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Text centering function in bash
I wanted to center some text in my commandline application, so I came up with this function.
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10 green bottles assignment
This code was for a university assignment. It's well passed now so don't be scared of giving me false grades, for example. I was wondering what could be done better, or bits of code that are horribly ...
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Angular filter to format temperature
This a basic filter I created with Angular that does temperature conversion. I'd like to get thoughts on how to improve this code from both an Angular and general JS perspective.
The filter should ...
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jQuery form with price format [closed]
I have this jQuery form with 4 text inputs.
The first one only accepts digits, the second one formats value into 'de-DE' price format accepting 2 decimals, the ...
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Data formatting using string spanning
I would like to know how to make my code better. I'm still a newbie in Android, so any tips are appreciated.
The code is an AsyncTask class extender that formats data into a nice looking Spannable ...
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Identicon Generator
I'm just playing with Python, trying to refamiliarize myself with it since I haven't used it in a few years. I'm using Python3, but as far as I know it could easily be Python2 with a change to the ...
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Right-justifying a number with dot leaders
I'm working on a small library to help me format numbers easier as my current project deals with a lot of them. I want to be able to just supply the value, precision, width, and fillchar to a method ...
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Separating digits in an Integer
I was reading a Java book and I came up with this kind of problem and I tried to solve it:
Problem: Write an application that inputs one number consisting of five digits from the user, separates ...
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Build a time struct for current time in UTC
I'm learning about time structs. Without assigning either in code or input routines I want the current time. Please help me refactor this, if it should be.
This code just tries to make a time struct ...
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type/class __repr__ formatter for Python objects
I am building a list of Python objects that I use fairly regularly that have a length property, (len, 'len') and I was trying to determine the best way to simplify the type/class formatter that the ...
