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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Keyboard Printing with Teensy
I'm trying to write a piece of code that will mimic ASCII keyboard output. It uses the keyboard library from pjrc, but the application I'm working on requires outputting string sequences rather than ...
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Simplify series of string manipulations in Ruby
I have a series of string manipulation, I realize this with the following code. I want it to be more elegant and readable such as ...
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Optimizing string match algorithm
I was trying to solve this problem. I thought of any possible relation between the number of matches among subsequent substrings, but could not find one. So, the probably naive solution that I ...
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Encryption/decryption of data
I'm trying to work with some encryption/decryption of data. It was some hard work for me to get it working with some buffers and what not.
This is the code I came up with:
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Searching for a string in a web page
I have written the below code to search for a string in a web page. This is working fine but I need suggestions on improving this code to start using this. This is written to work under IE.
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Finding the first and last IP in an IP range string
I'm very new to python and scripting in general. I've come up with the following function to find the first and last IP when an IP range string is inputted. I want to only use base Python (and not ...
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Random string + encrypt/decrypt
Are there any security flaws in what I plan to do?
I need to store the following in my DB:
a random string to act as a salt for encrypting a password
the encrypted password that used the salt in #1
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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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Outputting a countdown in a div
I got this code working with the jQuery Countdown Plugin to take a string input and output a countdown in a div. Is there a better way of implementing this?
JSFiddler
HTML
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Replace multiple occurrences of a character
I try to replace multiple occurrences of a character with a single character.
Input:
hhiii!!! hooowww aaareee yyyooou???
Output:
hi! how are you?
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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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Reusing strings read from I/O
I am working on an application that reads lots of data from the network and puts it in a grid. I noticed that I could save some memory by reusing existing strings instead of always using the new ...
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Removing any duplicate characters in a string
I have piece of code in C which removes any duplicate characters in a string. But I am doing it in two loops and would like it to optimize it to one loop.
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Binary search with strings
I wrote a quick and dirty program to perform binary search with an ordered array (list) of C style strings. For example:
{"1", "12", "23", "124"} etc (though my ...
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Improving the code to turn a string into an array of numbers?
I have a string of numbers, like "31654918562314", and I want to convert it into an array of integers. The code I've written is:
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Converting a range of integers from a string to an IEnumerable
Goal
Convert the following into an IEnumerable of integers accounting for the x-y ranges:
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is it a good strlcat() implementation?
I'd like to know if i respect strlcat(3) behiour with my implementation, cause i'm not really sure to understand strlcat particular behaviour
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Convert .NET DateTime to a string using ordinals
With a DateTime object, it's easy to get, for example, 11 October 2011 by using:
d.ToString("d MMMM yyyy");
However, there ...
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Better way to write a string slicer
Here is some code to insert a new line escape sequence after a certain number of characters (for fixed width displays)
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String substitutions in ruby and coding style
I wrote a short ruby script to generate various screenshots, and event though I am not completely new to ruby I rarely use it.
Full script (41 LOC): https://gist.github.com/1229115
The string ...
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Serialization/Unserialization of a list of strings - C++
Are there any issues with below implementation?
Input: from STDIN, a list of strings
Output: serialize to a file called "out.txt" and then unserialize into a list of strings, and output to STDOUT
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Splitting a string in an SQL query
BudgetCode is in the format 'xxxx-yyyyy-zzzzz'. This splits it correctly but I think that there has to be a more efficient way.
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Encode strings by subtracting one from each character code
I currently have this encoding function which simply subtracts one from each character code:
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Function to validate a file name
This function checks if a file name is valid or not. I think it's not good enough for integration (not optimized, maybe I forgot about some checks), so need your comments.
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Processing XML configuration which stores regular expressions and format strings for a documentation tool
I'm investigating some feature for the ScalaDoc tool, which would allow library writers to link to documentation created by third party tools like JavaDoc.
My idea is to have some (XML) configuration ...
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Determining whether a string ends with one of a few given options
I wrote the following function to determine whether a string ends with one of a few given options.
I'm sure it can be written more elegantly, probably avoiding the loop.
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String manipulation complexity
I've been reading Cracking the Coding Interview and at the very beginning I got to the strange statement that the next complexity will be \$O(n^2)\$.
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Delete each character in one string that matches any character in another
I am trying to solve an exercise in which I am given the following function:
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Determining which command line arguments are numeric
I am working on using STL and in general safe C++ practices. Instead of posting large samples of code I am working with a small sample to catch problems before I move onto larger ones.
How do you ...
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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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Remove repeated words from a 2D character array
This code removes repeated words from a word array (2D char array). I want to optimize this as much possible for speed.
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Command line tool for extracting, searching, and converting
I just completed my first real application (command line app). It's simple, but I had no prior knowledge of Python. Everything was hit and miss, with many Python books and help from those in this ...
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Replace sequence of strings in binary file
I have searched for method to find and replace strings sequence in binary files without any luck. The main requirement was that method should not load all file in memory but rather use chunks. I am ...
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Remove useless whitespace from styled string
I have a big string resource (basically the "about" text of the application) which contains styles (such as <b>, <a> ...
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XML-tag function
I'm an experienced programmer, but just a beginner in Python, and would like some input on a small function that's working but which I'm not very happy with.
It's used to produce XML tags (strings). ...
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Streamline code for checking if a directory exists and saving a file
I hate this code. What is the slickest way to write the following:
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Determining if one string occurs at the end of another
This is exercise 5-4 from K&R. I spent hours tweaking it but now it seems to work. I'm new to pointers and I'd welcome any comments about how to do it better.
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Simplify splitting a String into alpha and numeric parts
Requirement: Parse a String into chunks of numeric characters and alpha characters. Alpha characters should be separated from the numeric, other characters should be ignored.
Example Data:
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Iterate comparison - How can I write this better?
I would like to write the following piece of code cleaner and more efficient, any comments will be greatly appreciated:
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Change upper or lowercase vowels to [0,1,2,3,4] respectively and leave the rest the same
The objective was the following to be solved in Python:
Given a string, def a function that
returns another string with the vowels
(upper or lowercase) replaced by
0,1,2,3,4 respectively.
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Looping through a collection
In the situation where I am looping through a collection looking for an item, is it better practice to break before I return or ...
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Managing part types and counts
Both functions look fairly similar to each other, but they are different in the type of string. I have 6 functions like this and all differ only in the "string cmd". Any ideas on how I can put it all ...
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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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Optimizing Java Anagram checker (compare 2 strings)
An anagram is like a mix-up of the letters in a string:
pots is an anagram of stop
Wilma is an anagram of ilWma
I am going through the book Cracking the Coding Interview and in the basic ...
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Reversing a string
I had this as an interview question, and the interviewer pointed this out. Here's what I wrote:
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Change HashSet to a set of strings found in a file
This function changes a HashSet in the root of the class called 'commands' to a set of strings found in a file at "plugins/UC/Commands.txt" (it's what was requested by the people using the plugin). ...
