# Element-wise string multiplication

Inspired by this challenge (thanks @cairdcoinheringaahing for the title!), your task is to take two printable ASCII strings and multiply them element-wise with the following rules.

### How does it work?

Given two strings (for example split and isbn) you will first, truncate the longer one such that they have equal length and then determine their ASCII codes:

split -> spli -> [115, 112, 108, 105]
isbn  -> isbn -> [105, 115,  98, 110]


The next step will be to map them to the range [0..94] by subtracting 32 of each code:

[115, 112, 108, 105] -> [83, 80, 76, 73]
[105, 115,  98, 110] -> [73, 83, 66, 78]


Now you will multiply them element-wise modulo 95 (to stay in the printable range):

[83, 80, 76, 73] ⊗ [73, 83, 66, 78] -> [74, 85, 76, 89]


Add 32 to get back to the range [32..126]:

[74, 85, 76, 89] -> [106, 117, 108, 121]


And the final step is to map them back to ASCII characters:

[106, 117, 108, 121] -> "july"


### Rules

• You will write a program/function that implements the described steps on two strings and either prints or returns the resulting string
• The input format is flexible: you can take two strings, a tuple of strings, list of strings etc.
• The input may consist of one or two empty strings
• The input will be characters in the printable range ([32..126])
• The output is either printed to the console or you return a string
• The output is allowed to have trailing whitespaces

### Test cases

"isbn", "split"                  -> "july"
"", ""                           -> ""
"", "I don't matter"             -> ""
"             ", "Me neither :(" -> "             "
"but I do!", "!!!!!!!!!"         -> "but I do!"
'quotes', '""""""'               -> 'ck_iKg'
"wood", "hungry"                 -> "yarn"
"tray", "gzip"                   -> "jazz"
"industry", "bond"               -> "drop"
"public", "toll"                 -> "fall"
"roll", "dublin"                 -> "ball"
"GX!", "GX!"                     -> "!!!"
"4 lll 4", "4 lll 4"             -> "4 lll 4"
"M>>M", "M>>M"                   -> ">MM>"


Note: The quotes are just for readability, in the 6th test case I used ' instead of ".

• Are you allowed to have trailing spaces in your output? – Erik the Outgolfer Jul 21 '17 at 15:54
• @EriktheOutgolfer Yes. Sorry, I added that after posting it. – ბიმო Jul 21 '17 at 15:54
• Can we take an array of arrays of strings? abc, def -> [['a', 'b', 'c'], ['d', 'e', 'f']] – totallyhuman Jul 21 '17 at 16:19
• @totallyhuman I wouldn't say so. Though, if in your language strings are arrays of chars and chars have the same type as strings, then it would be valid I guess. – ბიმო Jul 21 '17 at 16:23
• Are we allowed to take input as a list of strings? – Zacharý Jul 21 '17 at 16:44

# MATL, 12 bytes

c32-p95\32+c


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### Explanation

c      % Implicitly input cell array of 2 strings. Convert to 2-row char matrix.
% This pads the shorter string with spaces
32-    % Subtract 32, element-wise. Each char is interpreted as its ASCII code.
% Note that padding spaces will give 0.
p      % Product of each column. Since (padding) spaces have been mapped to 0, the
% product effectively eliminates those colums. So the effect is the same as
% if string length had been limited by the shorter one
95\    % Modulo 95, element-wise
c      % Convert to char. Implicitly display

• Clever way of managing the string length difference. – Sanchises Jul 21 '17 at 16:55

# Jelly, 15 12 bytes

z⁶O_32P€‘ịØṖ


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-3 thanks to Jonathan Allan.

• Sneaky abuse of trailing whitespace. ;) – Dennis Jul 21 '17 at 16:20
• @Dennis Well it's in the rules, why not abuse it? – Erik the Outgolfer Jul 21 '17 at 16:21
• I believe you can save 3 bytes by using the niladic atom for printable characters, ØṖ, with z⁶O_32P€‘ịØṖ - you'd best double check that the arithmetic works though. – Jonathan Allan Jul 21 '17 at 18:34
• @JonathanAllan Of course. – Erik the Outgolfer Jul 21 '17 at 18:45

# Python 3, 8074 71 bytes

lambda*t:''.join(map(lambda x,y:chr((ord(x)-32)*(ord(y)-32)%95+32),*t))


Thanks to @shooqie for golfing off 3 bytes!

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• 71 if you take (s, t) as a tuple: lambda t:''.join(map(lambda x,y:chr((ord(x)-32)*(ord(y)-32)%95+32),*t)) – shooqie Jul 21 '17 at 16:30

# Python 2, 75 70 bytes

-3 bytes thanks to Dennis' suggestion of shooqie's suggestion. -2 bytes thanks to Zacharý's suggestion.

lambda*l:''.join(chr((ord(i)-32)*(ord(j)-32)%95+32)for i,j in zip(*l))


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• Same trick that was suggested on my answer: lambda*t:''.join(chr(((ord(i)-32)*(ord(j)-32))%95+32)for i,j in zip(*t)) – Dennis Jul 21 '17 at 16:36
• And same one that I suggested a lot: ((ord(i)-32)*(ord(j)-32))%95+32 => (ord(i)-32)*(ord(j)-32)%95+32 ... – Zacharý Jul 21 '17 at 16:38
• o_o beating Dennis. +1 – Zacharý Jul 21 '17 at 16:43
• Eh, not really, I just changed to a list comprehension instead of using map. I was just slightly late. – totallyhuman Jul 21 '17 at 16:44

zipWith(\a b->toEnum$f a*f bmod95+32) f=(-32+).fromEnum  Try it online! First line is an anonymous function taking two arguments. This a straight forward implementation of the algorithm: zipWith takes both strings and applies a given function to the pairs of characters. It handles the truncation and also works for empty strings. fromEnum and toEnum are alternatives to ord and chr to switch between characters and their ASCII values which do not need a lengthy import. Edit: -3 bytes thanks to Bruce Forte. • You can save 3 bytes by pulling out -32 and saving those parenthesis, see here. – ბიმო Jul 21 '17 at 18:18 ## C++, 331291282270 268 bytes, Version 2 = 178176150 148 bytes Original Version : #include<string> #include<algorithm> #define L length() #define S std::string S m(S a,S b){S c;int m=a.L<b.L?a.L:b.L;auto l=[m](S&s){s=s.substr(0,m);std::for_each(s.begin(),s.end(),[](char&c){c-=32;});};l(a);l(b);for(int i=0;i<m;++i){c+=a[i]*b[i]%95+32;}return c;}  -40 bytes thanks to Bruce Forte -39 bytes thanks to Zacharý Version 2, inspired by other people's answers #include<string> #define L length() using S=std::string;S m(S a,S b){S c;for(int i=0;i<(a.L<b.L?a.L:b.L);++i)c+=(a[i]-32)*(b[i]-32)%95+32;return c;}  If the first version uses a lambda, it's because i wanted to test C++11 std::async function i just learnt before, so i kept it for no reasons... More readable version : #include<iostream> #include<string> #include<algorithm> using namespace std; #define L length() #define S string //Function code for the original version S m(S a,S b) { S c; int m = a.L < b.L ? a.L : b.L; auto l=[m](S&s){ s = s.substr(0, m); for_each(s.begin(),s.end(),[](char&c){ c -= 32; }); }; l(a); l(b); for(int i=0;i<m;++i) { c += a[i] * b[i] % 95 + 32; } return c; } //Code for the version 2 S m2(S a,S b) { S c; for(int i = 0; i < (a.L < b.L ? a.L : b.L); ++i) { c += (a[i] - 32) * (b[i] - 32) % 95 + 32; } return c; } int main() { string a, b, c; getline(cin, a); getline(cin, b); c = m(a, b); cout << c; }  • Welcome to PPCG! – Martin Ender Jul 21 '17 at 19:56 • Welcome to the site! Thanks for your answer, I appreciate it. I have no experience in golfing with C++, but here you'll find some tips. Enjoy your time here! – ბიმო Jul 21 '17 at 20:09 • Also I'm pretty sure you can just submit a function, like this. – ბიმო Jul 21 '17 at 20:10 • Can't you remove the spaces here: #include <string>=>#include<string> and #include <algorithm>=>#include<algorithm>? – Zacharý Jul 21 '17 at 21:54 • In addition you should be able to create a macro equivalent to string and use it accordingly. – Zacharý Jul 21 '17 at 22:00 # Dyalog APL, 36343325 24 bytes {⎕UCS 32+95|×⌿32-⎕UCS↑⍵}  Try it online (TryAPL)! Try it online (TIO)! Input is a list of strings, and has trailing whitespace. Here's how it works: {⎕UCS 32+95|×⌿32-⎕UCS↑⍵} ↑⍵ - the input as a 2d array ⎕UCS - codepoints 32- - subtract 32 ×⌿ - element wise product reduction ([a,b]=>a×b) 95| - Modulo 95 32+ - Add 32 ⎕UCS - Unicode characters  • I didn't get the interface of tryapl.org, so here's a TIO for those that want to try it. – ბიმო Jul 21 '17 at 16:18 • There, I put both in there. – Zacharý Jul 21 '17 at 16:23 # FSharp 275 bytes let f (p : string, q : string) = let l = if p.Length < q.Length then p.Length else q.Length p.Substring(0,l).ToCharArray() |> Array.mapi (fun i x -> (((int(x) - 32) * (int(q.[i]) - 32)) % 95) + 32) |> Array.map (fun x -> char(x).ToString()) |> Array.fold(+) ""  # CJam, 23 bytes {z{2' e]' f-:*95%' +}%}  Try it online! # C# (.NET Core),100 96 95 bytes (l,n)=>{for(int i=0;i<l.Length&i<n.Length;)Console.Write((char)((l[i]-32)*(n[i++]-32)%95+32));}  Try it online! -4 bytes thanks to @Zacharý -1 byte by moving the increment Uses a lambda and abuses the fact that characters are basically ints. • Can you use (l[i]-32)*(n[i]-32)%95+32? – Zacharý Jul 21 '17 at 16:12 • Why yes, I can. Thanks! – jkelm Jul 21 '17 at 16:14 • You need to fully qualify the Console and you can use currying to save a byte. Compile to a Action<string, Action<string>> like l=>n=> and call like ("word")("string") – TheLethalCoder Jul 24 '17 at 7:57 # Mathematica, 114 bytes (a=Min@StringLength[x={##}];FromCharacterCode[Mod[Times@@(#-32&/@ToCharacterCode/@(StringTake[#,a]&/@x)),95]+32])&  input ["public","toll"] • Is there a way to try it online? – ბიმო Jul 21 '17 at 16:30 • of course, go to sandbox.open.wolframcloud.com/app/objects paste the code, paste input at the end, press shift+enter – J42161217 Jul 21 '17 at 16:36 • what "8 chars"? – J42161217 Jul 21 '17 at 16:45 • Sorry for the confusion! The message "Thanks!" would have been too short to post just like this, it needed 8 chars more. – ბიმო Jul 21 '17 at 16:47 • ok.................................... – J42161217 Jul 21 '17 at 16:48 # Stacked, 52 bytes [,:$#'"!MIN$take"![CS#.toarr]"!32-prod 95%32+#:''#]  Try it online! Function that takes two arguments from the stack. ## Explanation [,:$#'"!MIN$take"![CS#.toarr]"!32-prod 95%32+#:''#]  Let's look at the first part, assuming the top two items are 'split' and 'isbn': ,:$#'"!MIN$take"! stack: ('split' 'isbn') , pair top two: (('split' 'isbn')) : duplicate: (('split' 'isbn') ('split' 'isbn'))$#'                  length function literal:    (('split' 'isbn') ('split' 'isbn') $#') "! execute on each: (('split' 'isbn') (5 4)) MIN obtain the minimum: (('split' 'isbn') 4)$take         "take" function literal:    (('split' 'isbn') 4 $take) (e.g. 'asdf' 2 take is 'as') "! vectorized binary each: (('spli' 'isbn'))  This part performs the cropping. Then: [CS#.toarr]"! stack: (('spli' 'isbn')) [ ]"! perform the inside on each string string 'spli': CS convert to a character string:$'spli'
#.             vectorized "ord":                 (115 112 108 105)
toarr        convert to array:                 (115 112 108 105)
(needed for empty string, since $'' #. == $'' not ()


Then, the last part:

32-prod 95%32+#:''#  stack: (((115 112 108 105) (105 115  98 110)))
32-                   subtract 32 from each character code:   (((83 80 76 73) (73 83 66 78)))
prod               reduce multiplication over the array:   ((6059 6640 5016 5694))
95%           modulus 95:                             ((74 85 76 89))
32+        add 32:                                 ((106 117 108 121))
#:      convert to characters:                  (('j' 'u' 'l' 'y'))
''#  join:                                   ('july')


# R, 88 bytes

function(r,s,u=utf8ToInt)intToUtf8((((u(r)-32)*(u(s)-32))%%95+32)[0:min(nchar(c(r,s)))])


anonymous function; takes input as two strings; third argument is just to ensure this is a one line function and save some bytes.

The TIO link below returns an array with entries named with the first input.

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# Perl 5, 65 bytes

64 bytes of code + -p flag.

$n=reverse<>;s/./($_=chop$n)&&chr 32+(-32+ord$&)*(-32+ord)%95/ge


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# D, 113 bytes

T m(T)(T a,T b){T c;for(int i;i<(a.length<b.length?a.length:b.length);++i)c~=(a[i]-32)*(b[i]-32)%95+32;return c;}


This is a port of HatsuPointerKun's C++ solution, don't forget to upvote them!

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# 05AB1E, 16 15 bytes

.BÇ32-*₃%32+çJ


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-1 for Emigna pointing out ₃ pushes 95.

                 # ['hi', 'you']
.B               # [['hi ', 'you']]
Ç              # [[[104, 105, 32], [121, 111, 117]]]
32-           # [[[72, 73, 0], [89, 79, 85]]]
# [[72, 73, 0], [89, 79, 85]]
*         # [[6408, 5767, 0]]
₃%       # [[43, 67, 0]]
32+    # [[75, 99, 32]]
ç   # [['K', 'c', ' ']]
J  # ['Kc ']


.BÇ32-*95%žQsèJ


is another.

• ₃ saves a byte. Too bad about the empty string input. Otherwise ø would save a few more. – Emigna Mar 29 '18 at 8:25

# Java 8, 12711597 95 bytes

a->b->{for(int i=0;i<a.length&i<b.length;System.out.printf("%c",(a[i]-32)*(b[i++]-32)%95+32));}


Explanation:

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a->b->{                       // Method with 2 char-array parameters and no return-type
for(int i=0;                //  Index-integer, starting at 0
i<a.length&i<b.length;  //  Loop over both arrays up to the smallest of the two
System.out.printf("%c",   //   Print, as character:
(a[i]-32)               //    Current char of a minus 32
*(b[i++]-32)            //    multiplied with current char of b minus 32
%95                     //    Take modulo-95 of that multiplied result
+32));}                 //    And add 32 again


# C#, 166 bytes

using System.Linq;s=>t=>{int e=s.Length,n=t.Length,l=e>n?n:e;return string.Concat(s.Substring(0,l).Select((c,i)=>(char)((((c-32)*(t.Substring(0,l)[i]-32))%95)+32)));}


I'm sure there's a lot of golfing to be done but I don't have time right now.

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Full/Formatted Version:

using System;
using System.Linq;

class P
{
static void Main()
{
Func<string, Func<string, string>> f = s => t =>
{
int e = s.Length, n = t.Length, l = e > n ? n : e;

return string.Concat(s.Substring(0, l).Select((c, i) => (char)((((c - 32) * (t.Substring(0, l)[i] - 32)) % 95) + 32)));
};

Console.WriteLine(string.Concat(f("split")("isbn")));

}
}

• I think (((c-32)*(t.Substring(0,l)[i]-32))%95)+32) can be ((c-32)*(t.Substring(0,l)[i]-32)%95+32) (might have screwed up the parens there ... it's looking like lisp!) – Zacharý Jul 21 '17 at 16:11

# Common Lisp, 99 bytes

(lambda(a b)(map'string(lambda(x y)(code-char(+(mod(*(-(#1=char-code x)32)(-(#1#y)32))95)32)))a b))


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# Japt, 24 bytes

¬íVq)®®©c -HÃ×u95 +H dÃq


Returns a string with trailing null-chars (\u0000) when the first input is longer than the second.

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# Python 2, 95 73 bytes

• Thanks @Zacharý for 4 bytes: unwanted brackets removed
lambda x,y:''.join(chr((ord(i)-32)*(ord(j)-32)%95+32)for i,j in zip(x,y))


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• Goodness gracious ... learn to use order of operations! (((ord(x[i])-32)*(ord(y[i])-32))%95)+32 => (ord(x[i])-32)*(ord(y[i])-32)%95+32 – Zacharý Jul 21 '17 at 16:25

# Charcoal, 30 bytes

Ｆ⌊⟦ＬθＬη⟧℅⁺³²﹪×⁻³²℅§θι⁻³²℅§ηι⁹⁵


Try it online! Link is to verbose version of code. I actually wrote the calcualation as (32 - ord(q)) * (32 - ord(h)) because it avoids consecutive numeric literals but I guess I could have just written (ord(q) - ord(" ")) * (ord(h) - ord(" ")) instead.

# Perl 5, 95 bytes

@a=<>=~/(.)/g;@b=<>=~/(.)/g;$#a=$#b if@a>@b;print chr 32+(-32+ord$_)*(-32+ord$b[$i++])%95 for@a  Try it online! Explanation: @a=<>=~/(.)/g;@b=<>=~/(.)/g; # Split the strings into 2 arrays$#a=$#b if@a>@b; # Truncate the first if longer than the second print chr 32+(-32+ord$_)*(-32+ord$b[$i++])%95 for@a  # Multiply each character

• I think you're not correctly truncating the result to the length of the smaller string (see here). – Dada Jul 27 '17 at 8:42
• You're right. Fixed it at a cost of many bytes – Xcali Jul 27 '17 at 16:35

# Pip, 19 bytes

(PA$* *(PA@?Zg)%95)  Takes the strings as command-line arguments. Try it online! ### Explanation (PA$* *(PA@?Zg)%95)
g is list of args; PA is string of all printable ASCII characters
Zg       Zip items of g together: result is list of pairs of characters
PA@?         Find index of each character in PA
(      )      (Parentheses to get correct operator precedence)
$* * Map (fold on *) to the list: multiplies each pair of numbers %95 Take list items mod 95 (PA ) Use those numbers to index into PA again Print the resulting list of chars, concatenated together (implicit)  # Factor, 45 [ [ [ 32 - ] bi@ * 95 mod 32 + ] "" 2map-as ]  It's a quotation (lambda), call it with two strings on the stack, leaves the new string on the stack. As a word: : s* ( s1 s2 -- ps ) [ [ 32 - ] bi@ * 95 mod 32 + ] "" 2map-as ; "M>>M" "M>>M" s* ! => ">MM>" dup s* ! => "M>>M" dup s* ! => ">MM>" ...  # K (oK), 26 bytes Solution: c$32+95!*/-32+(&/#:'x)$x:  Try it online! Example: c$32+95!*/-32+(&/#:'x)$x:("split";"isbn") "july"  Explanation: Evaluation is performed right-to-left: c$32+95!*/-32+(&/#:'x)$x: / the solution x: / assign input to variable x$   / pad right to length on left
(  #:'x)    / count each x (return length of each char list in list)
&/         / min-over, get the minimum of these counts
-32+            / subtract 32, this automagically converts chars -> ints
*/                / multiply-over, product of the two lists
95!                  / modulo 95
32+                     / add 32 back again
c$/ convert to character array  # PHP, 112 bytes for($i=0;$i<min(strlen($a=$argv[1]),strlen($b=$argv[2]));$i++)echo chr((ord($a[$i])-32)*(ord($b[$i])-32)%95+32);

• 109 bytes: for($i=0;$i<strlen($a=$argv[1])&&$i<strlen($b=$argv[2]);)echo chr((ord($a[$i])-32)*(ord($b[\$i++])-32)%95+32); Also, I'm not entirely sure if replacing && with & might also be possible in PHP, reducing it by another byte to 108. – Kevin Cruijssen Oct 23 '17 at 12:45

# JavaScript (ES6), 89 bytes

Javascript and the curse of the lengthy function names ...

Using currying and the fact that charCodeAt returns NaN when called with an invalid position. There can be trailing nulls in the output.

a=>b=>a.replace(/./g,(c,i)=>String.fromCharCode((z=x=>x.charCodeAt(i)-32)(a)*z(b)%95+32))


Test

var f=
a=>b=>a.replace(/./g,(c,i)=>String.fromCharCode((z=x=>x.charCodeAt(i)-32)(a)*z(b)%95+32))

q=x=>'['+x+']'

;[["isbn", "split"],["", ""],["", "I don't matter"],["             ", "Me neither :("],
["but I do!", "!!!!!!!!!"],['quotes', '""""""'],["wood", "hungry"],["tray", "gzip"],
["industry", "bond"],["public", "toll"],["roll", "dublin"],["GX!", "GX!"],
["4 lll 4", "4 lll 4"],["M>>M", "M>>M"]]
.forEach(([a,b])=>console.log(q(a)+' x '+q(b)+' --> '+q(f(a)(b))))`