Linked Questions
37 questions linked to/from Tips for golfing in Perl?
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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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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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Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Recently, I've seen Hare Krishna people with their mantra on the emblem and I've found it may be quite interesting to code golf.
The challenge
Write the Hare Krishna mantra, i.e.:
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Pointers, pointers, pointers!
Introduction
In the error outputs of some languages such as Java, a pointer is shown to give the programmer an idea of exactly where the error went wrong.
Take this example on Ideone:
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A simple TCP server
Write a program or function that listens for incoming TCP traffic on port N. It offers a simple service: it calculates sum of IP address fields of incoming connection and returns.
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My daughter's alphabet
The other day we were writing sentences with my daughter with a fridge magnet letter. While we were able to make some(I love cat), we didn't have enough letters to ...
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The Curious Case of Steve Ballmer
Steve Ballmer is the ex-CEO of Microsoft, and in a recent article, claimed that he "still does not know what he did wrong with mobile".
As CodeProject's newsletter pointed out, "That article's title ...
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Insist on an answer
At runtime, keep prompting for a line of input until the user inputs something (other than an empty newline), i.e. does not just press Enter or OK. Output or result is neither required nor prohibited.
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Don't give me five!
Question :
You will be given the starting and ending integers of a sequence and should return the number of integers within it which do not contain the digit 5. The ...
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AlTeRnAtE tHe CaSe
For today's challenge, you must write a program or function that alternates the case of a string. However, you must ignore non-alphabetic characters. This means that every alphabetic character must ...
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xkcd-Style Page Numbering
Randall Munroe's book "xkcd, volume 0" uses a rather odd number system for the page numbers. The first few page numbers are
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Erverse Hte Ifrst Wto Eltters fo Aech Owrd
Inspired by this accidental misspelling
If you could read the title, then you already know what the challenge is about. If not, then I'll tell you. Easy: simply take each word (single space delimited)...
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Java is to JavaScript as Car is to Carpet
Title stolen inspired by Greg Hewgill's answer to What's the difference between JavaScript and Java?
Introduction
Java and JavaScript are commonly used languages among programmers, and are currently ...
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Reverse the consonants
The program should take a string as input and reverse the consonants in it, while keeping the order of vowels. All the letters will be lowercase, so you don't have to worry about casing. Examples ...
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Implement "tac": Print lines from a file in reverse
Between the kitten question and seeing this question at U&L about some sed magic, how about implementing tac?
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