Questions tagged [converting]
Converting involves changing data from one data type or format to another.
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Program that converts a number to a letter of the alphabet - follow-up
This is a follow up from my previous post: Program that converts a number to a letter of the alphabet
This is meant to teach my little brother (who only knows how to make games in Geometry Dash) ...
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Instant to-and-from Roman Numeral Conversion
Ⅰ Roman numerals are composed of digits taken from a small set of uppercase characters. Lowercase characters were first used in the Middle Ages.
$$I,V,X,L,C,D,M$$
With these digits we can ...
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Image type convertion
So I have a piece a code that, altough it does what is expected, it doesn't seam very performant to me. I just wanted to know if there's a better way to do this or if my code is alright as it is.
The ...
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fasm convert hex byte to binary string
This fasm x64 (Linux) code seems very crude and repetitive, but it gets the job done. How could I perform this task in a more idiomatic manner?
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process numerical input arguments of mixed ints, floats, and “array-like” things of same length>1
I'm trying to process numerical input arguments for a function. Users can mix ints, floats, and "array-like" things of ints and float, as long as they are all length=1 or the same length>1.
Now I ...
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Normalizing mixed format nested dictionary with delimiter separated keys
I recently worked with some pickle files which had a really strange format where the keys are sometimes delimiter separated with colons and placed in the same depth but also mixed with ordinary key ...
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Convert char array to number
C++17 have <charconv>. However this header does not work on MacOS - It compiles, but can not link. Same header is not present in ...
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Naming convention when converting between types? [closed]
If I have a method where the input is a list of integers, and within that method I convert the list to a list of strings, what is the best way to name the new list?
For example (using ...
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Sum of all digits in a string
Given a string, return the sum of all the numbers in the string, 0 if none are present.
Below is my solution for the problem above. I feel like this can be turned into one line. I would really only ...
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Convert a Hex value string to an ASCII Text String
We had a little bit of fun in the 2nd Monitor this morning, one user greeted another with a hex string. It turned out that the user being greeted deals with Hex Dumps enough that they were able to ...
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Code that reads/writes to bytes of an ascii-encoded hex string
Problem Statement
Given a hexadecimal string (hascii) and its binary specification (a list of byte field names, their offsets, and byte lengths), design classes to parse all byte-fields, cast bytes ...
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Constructing constrained/validated objects
I'm trying to do some rudimentary DDD in validating my objects to ensure they are of a particular type. I.e. an Email object would always look like "my@example.com" ...
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Converting a binary string to hexadecimal using Rust
Once again, I am reinventing the wheel here to understand the fundamentals of rust. In a previous question I requested feedback on my function that performed a hexadecimal to binary conversion. In ...
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Converting a hexadecimal string to a binary string using Rust pattern matching lookup
I am getting started in Rust, and as a part of my first exercise, I decided to write a small program that converts a hexadecimal string to a binary string using a pattern matched lookup. I would ...
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Convert to dictionary
Earlier I did post with full code about Prepare and export data to MS Word file. The user t3chb0t recommended me to separate some part of full code to this post.
Context
The task of code for review ...
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Convert a Binary Tree to Doubly Linked List
Challenge
Link on geeksforgeeks: Binary Tree to DLL
Given a Binary Tree (BT), convert it to a Doubly Linked List(DLL)
In-Place. The left and right pointers in nodes are to be used as
previous ...
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Converting a set into a string
The input is a set of alphabets.
The output is a string of 32 in length.
For any letter in the set if it is preceded by a '¬' we replace the n-th character in our output string with '0', such that n ...
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Convert HTML color to OLE
I have this function that takes a string which represents a html-color and returns the OLE value for it. If the string is null or empty or it can't be parsed, it uses a default value.
However I have ...
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Format the output of Color.ToString() to RGB values [closed]
The method that I wrote below functions properly; however, I believe that the code I wrote is not clean nor "good".
I know the basics of regex but I do not know more advanced techniques as I am still ...
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Static Methods for Dealing with Conversions from and to UTC
I asked this question over at stackoverflow but was told it may be better suited here.
So I absolutely want to store DateTimeOffset objects in UTC format. To ...
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Excel To CSV Converter Ch 9 ATBS
I am learning more about python using the book "Automate The Boring Stuff". The problem I completed was "Excel To CSV Converter". I want to kick bad habits to the curb, and make sure I'm learning the ...
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Dephi: faster way to convert a “dirty” string to a number
How can I make this code faster? the string can contain characters such as ", .?#" and possibly others.
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Internal and external datatype converter
One of the big problems I have is cleanly converting from an internal datatype to an external datatype. We can all do it the not so clean way, however I think this add too much mess.
I can use ...
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Get local datetime from UTC time
One of the app is inserting date in UTC format (column CreateDate). When reporting from this table, I used a difference in hours between the inbuilt ...
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Convert *.VCF contact file for cellphone import
My new mobile phone is capable of importing contact information from a renamed *.VCF file stored on an SD memory card (https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-sync-contacts-on-Nokia-130). Annoyingly, it does ...
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Convert a custom object to a query string
I wrote an extension method that takes a custom object and converts its properties to a query string for use in a URL. You can specify what properties you want included by using a ...
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String to long double conversion using FBLD
I always wanted to try fbld x87 instruction to aid to convert string to floating point value.
I sure a chance to face this instruction in disassembly of all the ...
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Convert data frame to list of lists by row
I am rewriting some old code where I take a dataframe in r and convert it using the tidyverse packages to a list of lists, where ...
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Taking 2 command line inputs and verifying that they are integers, within the correct range of values
I'm taking 2 command line inputs, which have to be integers between 2 and 1,000,000. These two values are then passed into the getPrimes function, which is just a ...
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Converting between bases (2 to 221) with optional seeds and padding
It's been a while since I had a bit of fun getting something useless working, so I thought I might as well ask if there's anything to improve about how I do things.
The original idea was to convert <...
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Generate JSON File from a given YAML file
I'm didn't use java for a long time(5 years ± ) and in the following code the user should provide yaml file and it converting it to json file.
The code is working as expected but since I didn't use ...
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constexpr Endian conversion in c++14
This is my take for constexpr big / little endian conversions.
The code supports only little and big endian; mixed endian such PDP is not supported.
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Convert mixed-format phone numbers to pure numbers
I am just getting started with C# and wanted to make sure that I am aware of any errors/inefficiencies in my code.
For this specific project, I wanted to prove to someone that a "bot" could easily ...
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Convert FoxPro/dBase DATETIME field to Win32 SYSTEMTIME struct
I'm trying to write a complete driver for Visual FoxPro's DBF format for Win32. I found that the way that fields of the DATETIME type are stored in dBase files is ...
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Converting from decimals to roman numerals
I've submitted the following code for a job interview, and I wanna know if there is anything I can improve on it, or better ways to do the same thing.
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Extending COERCE to other reasonable object type conversions
It's a basic principle in AI that different problem representations can either facilitate or impede a solution. Being able to readily switch data representations while programming in Common Lisp may ...
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ByteUnit class to convert across size units
Based on java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit class I wrote similar class to convert size units:
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Hex-string representation of a byte array [closed]
I have a legacy method toHex(byte[]) used in my application since the beginning of time to store a hexadecimal representation of a ...
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Enum with a lot of items and a long case statement to convert from string
Recently I wrote this class and it has a enum of all the interaction types a game item can have. What I want to know is, it seems a bit of a stretch to have a huge enum then that long switch, is there ...
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Interpret YYYYMMDD as the nth day of the year [closed]
I am provided a bunch of dates in the format (YYYYMMDD) such as:
date='20170503'
My goal is to convert that date into the ...
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Using generic types for a custom mapper
I have a method which takes a certain generic object, which basically orders these objects based on a list of tags. Because I want to use this method for multiple objects, I have created a class which ...
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Setting Entity Framework up for success
So I am working on an application (top-secret!) that I need settings for, these settings are pretty basic, but I don't want to make a single-row table with a bunch of serialized settings, or a single-...
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C++ conversion from std::string to arithmetic type using std::locale::classic()
I recently had a bug where extracting a decimal from a string failed due to locale settings. That is, some locales use a , as a decimal point, rather than a ...
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A Binary Editor with Live Text Preview
This is a tool I needed for some other things (it's incomplete, but almost done) which is essentially just a text-editor that has two text-boxes: the left being the binary view / raw bytes, the right ...
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Converting [UInt32] -> [UInt8] -> [[UInt8]]
I am trying to speed up my current implementation of a function that converts [UInt32] to a [UInt8] which in turn is split up ...
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Pronounceable binary-to-text encoding
This is a binary-to-text encoder that is based on Base64, but it works by converting data into an almost pronounceable string (consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel for each 3 bytes). Any improvements, ...
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Construct: bytes and bits conversion
This code is part of Construct library that converts between byte and bit representations.
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Map object types using custom converter
I'm trying to design a mapper that will convert one object type to another shown in the diagram below:
The object has structure as follows (it's not a JSON):
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Convert an image to 8-bit color
I have a function that will take an image and then return that image in 8-bit color. Almost all of the code was taken from MSDN.
The code is quite short compared to all of the other methods I've seen ...
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Generic Int conversion to scalar
I'm new to Scala and I'm trying to write a generic function to convert from Int to any scalar.
For example:
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