Questions tagged [strings]
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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Calculating entropy of a string
We're calculating entropy of a string a few places in Stack Overflow as a signifier of low quality.
I whipped up this simple method which counts unique characters in a string, but it is quite ...
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Remove Last Comma
I want to join strings together, but when doing this it often happens that there is a comma too many, and therefore I need to remove that comma. In this code, I use the ...
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Function to print command-line usage for a program [closed]
The following function works well to print out a help message for the program I have written. It prints a multi-line string message that describes the command line usage with some examples:
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NUMAH LITTERS OV KITTEHS ON TEH NETZ
It's not fair that 1% of the users hold 75% of the lolcode questions. #OccupyMatsMug
~ user2296177
I agree. Without further ado, here's the LOLCODE version of 99 bottles of beer on the wall:
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String.IsNullOrEmpty in JavaScript
I am aware of it being frowned upon to do something like write C# in JavaScript. (see this if you don't know what I'm talking about)
But as a judgement call, I think we could stand to have a ...
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Determining if two words are anagrams
I was given a this problem at a technical interview and failed miserably in the time given. Afterwards, I sat down and worked out what I think is a good solution. The task was actually to build an ...
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Balanced parentheses
Given an expression string exp, write a program to examine whether the
pairs and the orders of
"{","}","(",")","[","]"
are correct in exp.
For example,...
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A lightning-fast StringBuilder
In the process of trying to build a serializable data structure, I found myself building large strings, which gets very slow because VBA copies a string every time concatenation is performed.
To ...
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Converting between std::wstring and std::string
While researching ways to convert back and forth between std::wstring and std::string, I found this conversation on the MSDN ...
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C program that reverses a string
As practice with the (ever so painful) C Strings I wrote a string reversal program. I am new to C, so I wanted to make sure that I am not using bad coding practices. It runs just fine (at least with ...
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Sorting strings by length - functional Python
I'm trying to port this little F# snippet while staying pythonic:
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Integer to Alphabet string ("A", "B", ...."Z", "AA", "AB"...)
So this question is prompted by two things.
I found some code in our source control doing this sort of things.
These SO questions:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/297213/translate-an-index-into-...
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Pack and unpack bytes to strings
I need to write a function that "packs" an array of bytes (integers between 0 and 255) into a string. I also need to be able to perform the reverse operation, to get my byte array from the string that ...
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Random string generation
I'm using this C# function to generate random coupons for a system. How can I improve it?
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Message decoder
I've built a C decoder program. The length of an encoded message will be given and the message itself in the following line. All the characters of the message will be in uppercase letters. The task is ...
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Check for balanced parentheses
Given an expression string exp, write a program to examine whether the
pairs and the orders of
"{","}","(",")","[","]"
are correct in exp.
For example,...
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Loading... animating dots in C
I've recently wanted to make a "Loading..." display in C where the dots print one at a time in order and then reset:
Suprisingly, there isn't much on the internet for doing this well, so I figured I ...
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I can has(kell) cheezburger?
Edit 13 June:
I have made a new and improved version here.
Original Question
This is a very rudimentary lolcats translator (it only works on the phrase "Can I have a cheeseburger") in ...
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Custom indexOf() without String methods
I created my own indexOf function. I was wondering if anyone could help me come up with a way to make it more efficient. I am practicing for interviews so the catch ...
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Matching a generated string of random letters to an input
I made a program in Python and wanted it to be faster, so I wrote it on C# because it's compiled. To my surprise, the Python program is much faster. I guess there is something wrong with my C# code, ...
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Get string truncated to max length
This is an extension method to get a string that is truncated to a maximum length.
Any comments?
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LINQ approach to flatten Dictionary to string
I have a Dictionary<string,string> and want to flatten it out with this pattern:
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Finding words of different lengths given six letters
I'm trying to find all the 3, 4, 5, and 6 letter words given 6 letters. I am finding them by comparing every combination of the 6 letters to an ArrayList of words ...
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Reusing StringBuilder or creating a new one? [closed]
Given that it is better to reuse objects than create new ones when developing with Android, is it worth while deleting the contents of a StringBuilder and reusing ...
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Capitalize the first character of all words (even when following a '-')
I got it working, all variations are displayed Sint-Anna as should be, but I wonder, is there a simpler way to this, since it looks very cluttered?
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Replacing letters with numbers with its position in alphabet
If anything in the text isn't a letter, ignore it and don't return it.
a being 1, b ...
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Extract numbers from a string-Javascript
Consider the following string in javascript:
var string="border-radius:90px 20px 30px 40px";
I want to extract the 4 numbers from that string and store them in ...
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"ONCE", "UPON", "A", "TIME"
I'm working on a small program to perform various tasks on text content, primarily at the word level. I wrote these methods as ways to help prepare the raw text file into something more malleable, ...
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Fast way of searching for a string in a text file
I have written this code to search for a string in a .txt file. Is it possible to optimize the code so that it searches for the string in fastest manner possible? ...
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Translating from English to Entean
I wrote a python script that converts English to Entean language from an anime called "The Devil is a part timer". I am sloppy at coding and know that the script can be made better.
In the anime, the ...
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Please Save My Name
I wanted to create a save game system for my city building game that did not require the player to input a name for the city. It was also important to allow infinite save games, so I could not just ...
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Most efficient way in C++ to strip strings
If I want to strip a string completely of its whitespaces, punctuation and numbers (i.e. anything that is not A-Z, a-z), what is the most efficient way of doing it in C++?
I tried this:
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Functions to convert camelCase strings to snake_case
I have written two functions, one actual and one helper, to convert camelCase strings into snake_case strings (I call it joint-lower case). Any ideas for improvement are welcome.
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What does the Bob say?
Description:
Bob is a lackadaisical teenager. In conversation, his responses are
very limited.
Bob answers 'Sure.' if you ask him a question.
He answers 'Whoa, chill out!' if you yell ...
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Join List with Separator
I was implementing something similar to Python's join function, where
join([a1, a2, ..., aN], separator :: String)
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Word Inverter in C
I've just made this program and I want to know how to improve it. It just receives a word and prints it backwards. Sequences of numbers are also accepted, but not white spaces (that's why I used scanf)...
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Create a C++ string using printf-style formatting
It's often convenient to use C-style printf format strings when writing C++. I often find the modifiers much simpler to use than C++ I/O manipulators, and if I'm ...
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Comma Code (project from "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python")
I'm currently learning Python using the book mentioned in the title. I just finished reading about lists, tuples, functions and methods, and one of the projects following this chapter is to create a ...
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Generating CSV strings for various 3rd party utilities
I'm generating CSV strings for various 3rd party utilities and this section of code gets repeated in many classes. Is there a better way to generate this string?
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Simple string reverse program in C++
I want to learn how to write good code. Starting off with simple programs for now. So any suggestions regarding style, readability or more efficient ways of implementation, etc. would really be ...
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Add 'ing' or 'ly' suffix to a string
I have been practising Python Practice questions and came across this question:
Write a Python program to add 'ing' at the end of a given string
(length should be at least 3).
If the given string ...
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Reverse a string word by word
Given an input string, reverse the string word by word.
For example: Given s = "the sky is blue", return ...
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Split a string into chunks of the same length
Inspired by this question in chat
Is there an easy way in .NET to split a string into an array by pulling chunks of the text in. I.e. I have an 18 character string I would like in 3 6-character ...
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I created something much faster than a std::string
I've recreated std::string in a way that might be faster.
System Features:
Much faster than std::string.
Easy to use.
It was designed as part of a large database ...
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Count all vowels in string
For a homework assignment, I was asked to complete this CodeStepByStep problem. It's coded correctly and gave me a right answer. I'm just wondering if there's an easier way to solve this problem ...
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Reverse words in a given String
I'd like this code to be improved
Input string: codereview is awesome
Output string: awesome is codereview
My approach:
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Check for balanced parentheses
I was given an assignment to check for balanced parentheses from an arbitrary string where parentheses are defined as (, [ or { and their respective "closing" ...
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Find the longest word's length
The challenge is simple:
Return the length of the longest word in the provided sentence.
The solution is just as simple:
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