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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Right justified table printer function
A challenge in the beginner book "Automate the boring stuff":
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Comparing XML string with different formats
I need to compare 2 xml strings where the formatting may be different. The approach is to use the XmlWriterSettings to format both strings and compare the formatted ...
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Construct: (un)dumping bytes to hex
This code is part of the Construct library. Docstrings explain what the code is supposed to do.
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Reverse input program in C99
I am writing simple program to reverse its input and output the reversed version. I came up with this code. So how can I improve it? Something tells me that ...
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Spaces-to-tabs converter, updated version
I recently posted Spaces To Tabs Converter but it had lots of bugs, so I rewrote the code. I wanted to ask, is it good code? I didn't find any bugs.
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Recursively list files in provided directory in the style of `npm ls`
I've written a small CLI node program to list the contents of a directory with an output similar to that provided by npm ls but listing both files and directories, ...
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Spaces to tabs converter
I wrote a program to convert spaces to tabs. If there are 4 spaces it should convert them to tab. Please let me know how to improve it.
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Integer-to-ASCII algorithm (x86 assembly)
This is my best effort at converting a 32 bit integer in EAX, to an 8 character ascii string (result in RDI). It will work ...
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Formatting XML strings in JavaScript for readability
I've created a vanilla JS function to indent XML strings so they can be more easily read. It uses some pretty nasty regex...yes, I know it's a cardinal sin for XML/HTML, but it works. For instance, ...
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A Version 4 UUID Implementation
I've been toying around with writing a decentralized, P2P application in REBOL 2, and one of the things I need to do is generate a universally unique identifier for users. I have written a function ...
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colorprint - part 2
This is a followup of the last review to comply with meta's rules.
In the last, I posted a small library called colorprint and got some helpful pointers from chux ...
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colorprint - An ANSI Escape sequence console writer mini-library
I wrote this a long time ago. I came back to it and decided to clean it up a little.
It uses the preprocessor and C99 anon structs to make a flexible python-like ...
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Wrapping single line string to multiple lines with specific length
Problem
A single line should be separated by Environment.NewLine so that each row has a length of columns (expect for the last ...
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Haskell function to format a floating-point number with some precision
I have not yet developed a satisfying coding style in Haskell. In the code snippet below, there is a lot wrong to my taste:
Helper functions which should be local to ...
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Using a MutationObserver to reformat numbers in the user's locale
I mostly just want to make sure I've understood the specs correctly with this code, but here goes:
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Create monthly calendar with number of days and offset (day of week) as user input
I am taking a beginning programming class and have been given the assignment to create a calendar as described in the title. Per the assignment the user entering offset of 0 will begin the calendar ...
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Customized date and time display
A simple reworking of the Bash date command to my own personal liking. Possibly a rather trivial task; I just wanted the date and time to be in the form of:
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Convert length of time to appropriate unit
I have a time, in seconds, which has the possibility to be very large. I wish to convert said time into the "appropriate" rounded, readable format.
I already have code which achieves this, however it'...
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Output two columns
Output formatting:
Input Format
Every line of input will contain a String followed by an integer.
Each String will have a maximum of 10 alphabetic characters, and each integer will be in ...
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Formatting seconds as days hours minutes seconds
I have the below and it gives me the desired output (ie; 1 day 12:05:33) but it looks overly complicated, is there a more straight forward way of doing this with the least amount of string ...
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Formatting a phone number
I have a program that will format a phone number in this format: (###)###-####
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Custom string formatters
Some time ago I was experimenting with an Extendable format provider but I wasn't satisfied with the implementation. It didn't feal very SOLID so I've rewritten it to this:
The base class is the <...
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Poor man's f-strings in Python 2.6
f-strings is a new feature in the upcoming python release which basically lets you do this:
>>> s = 'qwerty'
>>> f'{s} {1+2}'
'qwerty 3'
Not ...
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Table printing code using a fluent interface
Let's say you want to display something like:
One Two Three Four
1 2 3 4
And since you hate the idea of predefining the widths of the columns you ...
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Java number formatting in accountant style
I have written a string number formatter. I would like to know if this can be improved and any suggestions with how it's done.
The purpose of this function is to convert a double that has been ...
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Servlet to generate HTML printable form
I'm using a java servlet to generate HTML code to produce a printable form. I want the form to look like the paper version being used now (or as close as possible) to reduce confusion during the ...
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Convert NSInteger into NSString
This is my sample code to convert a integer into string.
Is it very costly to do the multiple loops of [NSMutableString stringWithFormat:..]?
I.e should I just use appendString and get the NSString ...
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Formatting a dirty phone number
Given a String that can contain :
digits
spaces
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/
I need to format to 3 digits group phone number :
example : "55 5/372-6-5/4" should be ...
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F# function to concatenate some DSL scripts with indentation
I'm rather new to F# and functional programming. I wrote the following method to concatenate some custom dsl scripts. The function works are expected without errors. I wanted to know if there was a ...
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Pretty print a 2D matrix in C (numpy style)
Works for any 2D matrix represented by a 1D array. Comments and criticism welcome. Also wondering whether the code can be made shorter. It's really messy right now.
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__str__ method for a tic-tac-toe board
I am making my first object-oriented program in python and I am having trouble with the __str__ part of Board() class. I want it ...
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My own snprintf implementation in C
I decided to make my own version of snprintf in C. I intentionally changed some things though. My version guarantees the buffer printed to will be null-terminated, ...
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Pretify JSON class -followup
This is a follow up to this question. This is an improved version in accordance to comments, suggestions and reviews.
Is the namespace implementation proper? is the code readable? I didn't want to ...
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Prettify JSON class
It's not much, but I tried employing some of the things I learned yet never really got to use, since that kind of code isn't really needed where I work (for the most part). I tried making it as much C+...
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BigInteger formatting for endless tower defense game
I am working on an endless tower defense game in Unity. To keep track of money, damage, hitpoints and stuff like that I will be using BigInteger, which can ...
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itoa base function in C
This is a function that converts an integer value to a null-terminated string using the specified base and stores the result in a char array that I must allocate (...
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Custom Exception.ToString() formatter
I find the default Exception.ToString() formattig very difficult to read especially if there are inner exceptions involved. I guess everyone knows how it looks:
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Binary-octal-hexadecimal conversion table
I solved this exercise of displaying a table of numbers from 1 to 256 in binary, octal and hexadecimal. I made this program to convert from decimal to binary and took that binary number to convert to ...
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Formatting seconds as hours:minutes:seconds
This is basically my school homework and I want to know what to improve, and what not to do.
The homework basically is this:
You will get a input in seconds, which is supposed to be shown as H:MM:SS ...
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Java method to make a string representation of a matrix
I have coded this static method for converting a double matrix into a nifty String.
It considers the width of the matrix to be ...
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Formatting a CHANGES text file as HTML
I have a function which is used to convert text (a CHANGES file) into HTML for reading. The function is essentially line-based: if the line is of this type, do this thing; if some other type, do that ...
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Extendable format provider
I needed a better string formatting options like ToUpper and ToLower but I also wanted to be able to use the default formattings ...
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Exercism: clean and format a phone number in Clojure
Problem statement
Phone Number
Write a program that cleans up user-entered phone numbers so that they can be sent SMS messages.
The rules are as follows:
If the phone number is ...
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Exercise 1-22 from K and R: line folding
I'm currently learning C with K&R, i'm right now in the exercise 1-22, but it's a little... hard to understand (at least for me). It says:
Write a program to "fold" long input lines into two ...
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Function that strips trailing '0's from a float
I'm writing an embedded application in C, and at one point I need to convert a float into an ASCII representation of that float, so I can send the ASCII over a serial port. The protocol the serial ...
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Simple login script
This is a simple login script using Bcrypt. Is there anything wrong with this code? It works and my page loads O.K, but could this be optimized for better speeds?
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K&R 1-20 Solution
I'm currently reading the infamous K&R C book and trying to solve Exercise 1-20. My solution looks kind of too simple, but it works. I've searched the web for different solutions, but they all are ...
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Displaying a String array in tabular format
I have an array of strings called theArray. All strings in theArray are of length 20. I wish to display this array in tabular ...
