Linked Questions
38 questions linked to/from Tips for golfing in PHP
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Print a 10 by 10 grid of asterisks
Background
This is a standard textbook example to demonstrate for loops.
This is one of the first programs I learnt when I started learning programming ~10 years ago.
Task
You are to print this exact ...
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It was just a bug
Inspired by the bugged output in @Carcigenicate's Clojure answer for the Print this diamond challenge.
Print this exact text:
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Tips for golfing in <all languages>
The aim of this post is to gather all the golfing tips that can be easily applied to <all languages> rather than a specific one.
Only post answers that its ...
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What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9? (42)
I love math. But I can't find a single calculator that can multiply correctly. They seem to get everything right except 6*9 (It's the question to life, the universe, and everything! How could they get ...
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Sing Baby Shark
"Baby Shark" is a children's song about a family of sharks. Having long been popular as a campfire song, it has been popularized since the mid-2000s by social media, online video and radio. - ...
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Bernardino identifies unaltered dollar words
Definition
A dollar word is a word where when each of its letters is given a cent value, from a = 1 to z = 26, and the letters are summed, the result is 100. Here is an example on CodeReview, and here ...
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Randomizing until 0
Challenge
Sandbox post
Given a positive integer (K) Output a uniformly-random integer (Y) between ...
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Create an "H" from smaller "H"s
Challenge
Create a function or program that, when given an integer size, does the following:
If size is equal to 1, output
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Invert a boolean array
A nice simple one
Input
Given a boolean array (Or an acceptable alternative), you can assume the array will never be more than 32 elements long.
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Output the language name times the number of characters [closed]
Challenge:
Your task is to use any language to output that language's name times the number of character's in its name.
Use the common name or acronym of the language.
If there are
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Write a Deadfish Interpreter
Sandbox, Codidact
A rewrite of this question with a simpler input format and guidelines.
Challenge
Deadfish uses a single accumulator, on which all commands are to be performed.
It has the following ...
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Write a haiku-w detector
A haiku is a poem with three lines, with a 5/7/5 syllable count, respectively.
A haiku-w is poem with three lines, with a 5/7/5 word count, respectively.
Challenge
Write a program that will return ...
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Split string on first occurrence of each character
Related.
Given a printable ASCII string, split it into a list of non-empty strings with a new sub-string beginning every time a character, which has not previously been seen in the same case, occurs.
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The world ends in ed
Taken straight from the ACM Winter Programming Contest 2013. You are a person who likes to take things literally. Therefore, for you, the end of The World is ed; the last letters of "The" and "World" ...
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Create an ASCII line, given a length
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Create a diagonal line given its length (let’s call the variable, say, \$n\$ where \$n > 0\$)
The diagonal line starts from the top left and goes to the bottom right.
You must use the ...
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