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Regular expressions are a declarative language, mainly used for pattern matching within strings. Please include a tag specifying the programming language you are using, together with this tag.

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Number to Roman numerals

The next step is to translate all combinations into their correct form using regex and a translation map. The functions were written in that order and fixing the problem the last part caused. …
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Find all needles in the haystack and return their sum

This is based on a programming challenge I recently solved. However, since the writer of the challenge asked me not to disclose the question and/or it's answer, I modified it a little. If it doesn't m …
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It'th wabbit theathon

I don't know regex. I want to learn regex, but learning regex just for the sake of regex would be quite boring. … How does one properly combine Ruby and (repeated) regex substitutions? …
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Average spam confidence

Exercise 7.2 from Python for Informatics: Write a program to prompt for a file name, and then read through the file and look for lines of the form: X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.8475 When yo …
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Count the occurence of nucleobases in DNA string

Sample Dataset AGCTTTTCATTCTGACTGCAACGGGCAATATGTCTCTGTGTGGATTAAAAAAAGAGTGTCTGATAGCAGC Sample Output 20 12 17 21 Since I'm still on my quest to learn both regex and Ruby, I decided to go that route: … I'm perfectly aware regex may not be the optimal solution here, but I'd like to stick with it anyway. …
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Javascript Syntax-Highlighter for Java

There's a glaring problem with this: no user input validation. A basic test revealed this: Ah, but that's not Java you say? True, but what if some poor sod has a stray HTML tag in their docstring? A …
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