A string is a sequence of characters. It is commonly used to represent text or a sequence of bytes. Use this tag along with the appropriate programming language being used.
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Validating a tab-delimited string
This code checks if string has correct format for passing to struct. Correct format needs to be [123456789'\t'First Name'\t'Last Name'\t'City]. I didn't know how to ...
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Randomly generate spelling mistake in string
My code will generate a spelling mistake inside of a string 50% of the time.
It will retrieve a letter from a random index in the string like, "t" and then duplicate that letter like, "tt" and store ...
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alternatives solutions to the problem of trying to find a substring within a string using Regular Expression
I'm new to Java and is trying to find a substring within a string using Regular Expression . Below is the code I have came up with. However, I was just wondering if there are any alternative ways to ...
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Simple function to generate a list of letters
I would like get some suggestions for improvement of this function, and alert me about any dodgy practices that you find.
I have been trying to learn python for a short time now and I would like to ...
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Creating a RegExp in JavaScript from user input
My goal is to accept user input regex in the following forms
/regex|here/i
/regex|here/
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How to use mmap to read one string at one time? [closed]
The following code reads a very large file (of the order of 5 Gb) that contains different strings at each line. However, the method used in the following code reads one character of the file at one ...
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Regex to match strings safely
The following regex is meant to improve stringmatching by sanitizing the user -defined commandPrefix and checking for whitespace and line-endings after the ...
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Parsing JSON in one go
I need to parse a simple JSON string (flat JSON, no hierarchy) for keys and values, and there is a system constraint that I cannot use any built-in JSON library and can only read a string once due to ...
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creating this string representation for this puzzle [closed]
i am trying to make this jigsaw puzzle. class is jigsaw and im trying to import this script called Piece.
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Why does C output image data as characters but not as string [closed]
I'm trying to get an image file to be stored in a buffer of char *string to be later used in a function that takes a char * as a ...
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JSON string parsing
I need to parse a simple JSON string (flat JSON, no hierarchy) for keys and values, and there is a system constraint that I cannot use any built-in JSON library and can only read a string once due to ...
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splitting multiple joined words, port from perl to PHP
Though i have never worked on perl, not even once.
I have ported the perl code into PHP and it seems like giving a correct result. But as I am going to use it on production server.
I want this code ...
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Duplicate Line Finder
I recently wrote a program that reads a plain text file, and compares every line and alerts you if any are similar, based on a float value that you pass in to a function.
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Text 'guesser' / tumbler like animation
I made a tumbler thingy...
Do you see possible bugs in the code or any improvements I could do?
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StringBuilder vs string.concat
I was reading this article about StringBuilder vs string.concat and couldn't figure out which one would be better in the ...
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Numeric integrity check
I'm a beginning C programmer. I need a function that will take a string and determine if it's a number. The data is coming from files created by different people and the number formats WILL vary. So ...
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Implementing a String class using reference count
Design a STRING class. Provide support for:
Assigning one object for another
Two string can be concatenated using + operator
Two strings can be compared using the relational operators
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Anchor Text String Transformation in Swift
I need to convert a string using these rules:
Downcase the string
Replace spaces, a blacklist of "invalid" chars, and non-ascii letters (like é) with -
Replace ...
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Parse a string to get a SectorId
In mobile phones technologies, a SectorId is a 128-bit value broadcast by a 1xEV-DO BTS system.
That is a 16 bytes data.
I made a structure to store them:
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Changing a character in a string at a specified index position
Could you please tell me what you liked or may have disliked about this code? What can be made better?
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Replace space with %20
This is not very memory-efficient. Can you please suggest a better way or improvement?
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Check if a string has 20 numbers in a row in it
My code will check if the variable myString has 20 running numbers. I'm new to JavaScript and I'm wondering if there is a simpler way to do this. How can I shorten ...
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Converting bytes to an escaped hexadecimal string
I wrote this function to convert an array of bytes to a C/C++ string representation using hexadecimal escape codes (\xhh). Any suggestions are welcome:
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String similarity calculation
For string similarity, it is defined as longest common prefix length. For example, "abc" and "abd" is 2, and "aaa" and "aaab" is 3.
The problem is calculate the similarity of string S and all its ...
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Check string having unique character or not without additional data structure
Here is my code without using additional data structures. Assuming all the characters are alphabetical and character checks are case-insensitive.
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Converting Chess FEN Notation to a Tuple and Back
This module is going to be part of a larger ElixirChess library for validating chess positions and moves, but I started with the core of it which is parsing a ...
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Converting from strings to byte arrays with LINQ in C#
I'm taking in a string of input from the command line, and when prefixed by 0o or 8# interpreting it as an octal string. I'd ...
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Java 8 String Unique Permutations in Parallel
Is there a better way to do this Java 8 String Unique Permutations in Parallel
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Longest Substring in Java
This is my function for determining the Longest Substring between two strings in Java.
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Expanding compressed string
I wrote this for a problem in one of the online contest at hackerearth. Problem statement is:
Input:
The first line contains the compressed string in form a2b4h5a2
Expanding it ...
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Comparison function for strings
I got a function that has as input 2 strings, computes the string similarity of all the combinations and give back and output the highest similarity. For example, "you are" and "are you" will have 1 ...
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JavaScript function to compare strings
I've written this function for to check if two strings are equal.
Can I improve it?
Is there a better way to accomplish the task?
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Reformatting a structured string like “a-b-c|A-B-C” into “a-A|b-B|c-C”
The code below was inspired by this post in Code Review.
Here is how it was first intended by its author:
I have the following code that converts a string that looks like :
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Convert #hashtagstylephrases to a proper list of words
I'm writing a program to split the words contained in an hashtag.
For example I want to split the hashtags:
#Whatthehello #goback
into:
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Process string vector and change each string to uppercase
The question below came from C++ primer 5th edition.
Read a sequence of words from cin and store the values a
vector. After you’ve read all the words, process ...
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Library assistant
HackerRank currently has '7 days of JavaScript' going, a quick intro into the JavaScript language. Every day a couple of challenges will be made available. One of the challenges of today was this:
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Find the letter 'z' within three characters after an 'a'
It works, just feel that my solution is too complicated.
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Generate String with Random Consonants and Vowels
Purpose
This problem comes from this dailyProgrammer subreddit challenge.
The task is to take an input of C / ...
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Vowels in a String are in Alphabetical Order
Task
Write an implementation that returns whether a String has vowels (English language) in alphabetical (A-Z) order or not.
Feedback
Is my ...
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Calculating Garland Degree of String
Purpose
A garland word is a word
formed by chopping off the last few letters and “wrapping around” to the start.
For example: You can chop off the the trailing “on” from “onion” and still ...
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Command called 'sprinkle'
I have a command called sprinkle. I'm not going to explain anything about it, because I want whoever that reviews the code to also tell me how much of the command ...
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Random string generator
I decided to make a random string generator for fun, and it works for the most part. Since I'm an amateur at programming, I thought I would post the code to get some feedback on it, and hopefully ...
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Two and a sub string
Challenge:
Given two strings, A and B. Find if there is a substring that appears
in both A and B.
Specifications:
Several test cases will be given to you in a single file. The first
line ...
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Javascript startsWith prototype
I'm a Java guy in a JavaScript world, and I'm used to certain things about Java Strings that just aren't there for in JavaScript. Some of this I can accept, for example Strings are freaking everywhere ...
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