Questions tagged [parsing]
This tag denotes challenges where parsing input is a large / the main part of the challenge.
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Keta Bracket Autocompletion
Special thanks to Bubbler and AdmBorkBork for supplying feedback about this challenge
Keta (Keyboard tacit — clever naming, I know!) is a golfing language I’ve been working on recently. One of it’s ...
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Count the length of head movement
Once upon a time I wanted to order custom tokens for a board game. They say they can do it, and then they present me their price list. I was confused because they charge per inch of head movement, and ...
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Shorthand Combined Functions
I was doing some investigation into trig functions using compound angles recently, and noticed that the results are really long and tedious to write:
$$
\cos(A+B) = \cos A \cos B - \sin A \sin B \\
\...
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Output integer given a digital clock style input
Input
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
| _| _||_||_ |_ ||_||_|| |
||_ _| | _||_| ||_| _||_|
output
1234567890
Rules
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Duct Tape a Regex Decider
Your task is to create a program that determines whether a given string is a valid regular expression or not using code snippets sourced from sites on the StackExchange network.
For the purposes of ...
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Interpreter for number theory, modulo n
A sentence of number theory (for our purposes) is a sequence of the following symbols:
0 and ' (successor) - successor means <...
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MQTT subscription topic match
Background
MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) is an ISO standard publish-subscribe-based messaging protocol (Wikipedia).
Each message has a topic, such as the following examples:
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Jimmy needs a new pair of shoes!
Jimmy has had a busy last week with all these platforms and ropes, and poor Jimmy doesn't even have legs or feet to stand on!
Your job is to take a string containing multiple Jimmys and give them ...
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Can Jimmy hang on his rope?
Yet another Jimmy challenge by his original father. See these other lovely challenges.
As you all know, recently we've been seeing challenges related to Jimmy on platforms. Now, Jimmy is an acrobat ...
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Parse a C++14 integer literal
According to http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/integer_literal, integer literals consist of a decimal/hex/octal/binary literal and a optional integer suffix, that is obviously completely ...
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Type-check an expression
Given an infix expression, determine whether all constants are of the same type.
Operators will consist only of these dyadic operators: +-/*
Your program or ...
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Multiply Two Integer Polynomials
Your task is to take two single-variable integer polynomial expressions and multiply them into their unsimplified first-term-major left-to-right expansion (A.K.A. FOIL in the case of binomials). Do ...
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Gotta Collect 'Em All
Your task here will be to write a very dumb AI capable of fetching all treasures on a map.
Map
The map is defined as follow: (artist-mode™-powered)
Basic case:
<...
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Sum integers in a string
Input
A string.
Output
The sum of all integers in the line.
Constraints
1≤Length of line≤500
Sample test Case
Input
the 5is 108 seCONd4 a
Output
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What have we got?
Inspired by, and in memory of, our beloved genius,
R.I.P.
He invented and implemented dfns — his magnum opus and the subject of the challenge.
For the interested: latest full dfns documentation and ...
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Bracket checking [duplicate]
Consider a string like:
a.push(c.push("a",["ad","bd",2,{"ard",duo}]).pop().replace(2,"tg").enc([3,{2,adf},"atr"],5)
Write a program that will verify whether a ...
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Fully Modular C: Grading
You are a Computer Science professor teaching the C programming language. One principle you seek to impart to the students is modularity. Unfortunately, past classes have tended not to get the message,...
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Conjugation in Real Life
In @Adám's Dyalog APL Extended, the ⍢ (under) operator means conjugation: apply one function, then a second function, then the inverse of the first. It's fun to ...
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Unminify a Pythlike String
Pyth is perhaps the most successful general-purpose golfing language. Though it is somewhat in decline as a result of newer languages, from 2014 to 2016 Pyth's concise syntax, constant updates, ...
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Captcha Capture [closed]
Captchas aren't meant to be machine-readable, and that's terrible. It is time to end this obvious bout of unfounded hatred for machines just trying to let you know about great deals on ṗḧ@ṛḿ4ćëüẗ1ċäḷṡ ...
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Read out the C variable declaration
Background
Variable declaration statement in C consists of three parts: the name of the variable, its base type, and the type modifier(s).
There are three kinds of type modifiers:
Pointer ...
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Transpile Brainstract to Brainfuck
Introduction
Brainstract, a newly created dialect of Brainfuck adds a bit more elements to the syntax. In addition to the normal Brainfuck syntax, there are macros. To define a macro:
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Simulate Casio S-VPAM calulator [closed]
It is 20th anniversary of Casio's S-VPAM calculators and it is worth celebrating.
Task: Process input string as Casio S-VPAM calculator does. The infix notation and precedence of mathematical ...
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Decrypt the extended Wechsler format
This challenge is based on a sandbox post by user48538. Since he is no longer active on this site, I took over this challenge.
apgsearch, the distributed soup search program for Conway's Game of Life ...
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What associativity was it again
Non-associative operators (for example the subtraction-operator) often are either left- or right associative, such that one has to write less parentheses. Consider for example the following:
$$
a-b-c
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Decoding the Kaadi system
You have come across an old Indian manuscript, one that describes mounds of buried treasure. The manuscript also tells you the location of the treasure, except that some crucial numbers have been ...
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Elixir Array Syntactic Sugar
In Elixir, (linked) lists are in the format [head | tail] where head can be anything and tail is a list of the rest of the list, and ...
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Get the number of images on a webpage [closed]
Recreational languages win at code golf too much. This challenge is simple, when using higher level functions.
The task is as follows:
Given any valid url, which is guaranteed to result in a valid ...
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Complement of a Regex
For the purposes of this challenge, we define a postfix regex dialect with alphabet {1, 0} and the following operations:
1 and <...
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Ten-pin bowling score - World Bowling edition
World Bowling scoring
Many people have gone to their local bowling center to play a few games of bowling, and many people continue to struggle to calculate their scores. World Bowling has introduced ...
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Panfix to parenthesized infix
Quylthulg is a language by Chris Pressey that attempts to solve the problem of infix notation using what it calls panfix:
like postfix, panfix does not require the deployment of arcane contrivances ...
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Write a bullet-proof “Atof” [closed]
Write a bullet-proof "Atof"
Atof (Array to float) is a function that every language has to have. (K&R: Atof in chapter 4.2 ...
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Of Dumps and Cubes, and Structured Nonsense
Your challenge is to translate a Cubically cube-dump to the format specified in this challenge.
Input
The input will represent a Rubik's Cube, formatted how Cubically prints its memory cube at the ...
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Same Name, Lame!
Write a function or program that, when given a list of names, outputs or returns a list where duplicates of given names have a unique shortened version of their surname.
Input:
A list of names, ...
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Compare two numbers given as strings
I have a problem at work. I need to compare two numbers that come as strings from two different databases. The numbers may come with leading zeroes and/or leading/trailing spaces. So I may have ...
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Convert a HTML page into a mountain
Task: convert a HTML page into a mountain!
When HTML pages are indented, they can look like:
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R[oman|everse] Polish Notation
It is the year MDLXVII in a world in which the Roman Empire never fell, and the collapse into the dark ages never occurred. Due to the extended period of Pax Romana, the empire's economic stability ...
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2017 SCRAM Finder
Background
The nuclear industry has term, SCRAM, used to describe a quick shutdown of the reactor. There's a fun myth that it stands for "Safety Control Rod Ax Man," the role which served to shut ...
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Parse the Parcel
Thanks to your help in the Mark My Mail challenge, PPCG-Post has successfully stamped all of its parcels with the generated barcodes!
Now, it's time to decode them.
In this challenge your program ...
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Parse a list of signed unary numbers
Unary numbers typically only represent nonnegative integers, but we can extend them to represent all integers as follows:
A positive integer N is represented as N 1...
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Clearly parenthesize APL trains
In APL, you can write tacit functions, called trains. How they work is irrelevant for this challenge. Here are the different ways they can be grouped, using ⍴ as ...
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The Missing Number - Version 2
Background:
This question is a remix of the one that I made previously on this forum. The only difference with this one is: the range is significantly larger, AND dynamic. Details below!
Also, I'm ...
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The Missing Number Revised
Background:
I originally posted this question last night, and received backlash on its vagueness. I have since consulted many personnel concerning not only the wording of the problem, but also its ...
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Parse my Esperanto!
The famous constructed language Esperanto uses the Latin alphabet (mostly, see the linked wikipedia page for details). However, there are some characters with accents: ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ, and ŭ. (C-...
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Simple markdown rendering
There are several ways to create headers on posts on the Stack Exchange network. The format that's most commonly1 used on PPCG seems to be:
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Expand Comparison Chains
Unlike most languages, Python evaluates a<b<c as it would be done in mathematics, actually comparing the three numbers, as opposed to comparing the boolean <...
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Exponentiation to multiplication to addition
Multiplication between 2 integers can be reduced into a series of addition like so
3 * 5 = 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 5 + 5 + 5
Exponentiation (raising a to the power b)...
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Exact Cover Puzzle
CHALLENGE
Given a set of grouped letters, arrange them onto the board so that they cover the area entirely.
Board Representation (a.k.a. the SHIP DECK)
The board is a 6x6 grid.
There will always be ...
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Increasing, decreasing, none or all?
Take two inputs, a non-empty vector/list containing digits 1 and 2 and a string (no, you may not take ...
