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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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Constant time string comparision in PHP to prevent timing attacks

$res = $str1 ^ $str2; Doing this will clip $res to the shortest of both strings and so the number of loop cycles is not solely dependent on the given string length. …
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Sentence maker with thesaurus

I'm teaching myself Ruby by rewriting PHP solutions, such as this one. The program should match words in a sentence with a dictionary of synonyms and then make combinations with them. dict = { 'h …
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