Questions tagged [string]
A competition to solve a particular problem through the usage and manipulation of strings.
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BalancE the UppercasE
Oh, No!
the sentences are out of balance.
Quick! balance them.
A word is defined as follows:
A sequence of letters [A-Za-z] separated by any non-letter character ([0-9] ~+- etc.)
A word is BaLanCeD ...
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Is this an anagram of its own source code? [duplicate]
I like anagrams. I like programs that reference their own source code. So this challenge combines them!
Input.
The input to the program could be anything, including letters, numbers, symbols, you name ...
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Generating minimal regular expression character classes
Background
Character classes are a standard way to indicate a set of characters to match in regular expressions. For example, the class [ab] matches a or b, ...
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Make a !!!Batch compiler/translator
!!!Batch is another derivative of the Windows Batch programming language, its wiki is here
Your challenge is to create an compiler/translator that reads a !!!Batch program and returns a Windows Batch ...
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Write A Book Cipher [closed]
Introduction
Book cipher
A Book cipher is a very unique method of a encipher. Here's how's it done:
You have a book / a document or a article (something full of text, the more pages of text the ...
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Print your username by ONLY using the characters in your username [closed]
You have to print out your username, by only using the characters in your username.
Standard loopholes are forbidden
This is not code-golf, so shortest does not win
Don't modify your username please
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Count strictly overlapping substrings
Given two strings a and b, count how many times b occurs as a substring in ...
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How likely is this mutation?
In my previous bioinformatics challenge, I asked you to mutate a DNA sequence. This time, I'd like you to evaluate how likely a mutation, or a series of mutations, is.
The two types of substitutions ...
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Which Ninjutsu am I casting?
In the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, the Ninja class has the ability to use combinations of up to three handsigns (Ten, Chi and Jin) to perform a variety of ninjutsu skills.
The skill you cast depends on ...
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Evaluate left-or-right
Originally sandboxed by @xnor
Left-or-right is a very simple language @xnor made up. Its expressions are made of arrows < (left), ...
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Implement bottom (encode)
Challenge
The challenge is to implement the bottom encoding (only encoding, not decoding). There is a wide variety of existing implementations in the bottom-software-foundation org.
Bottom is a text ...
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Merge Two Paragraphs with Removing Duplicated Lines
Challenge
The goal of this challenge is to make a function that takes two paragraphs and output a concatenated result with removing the duplicated overlapped lines due to redundancy (but a single copy ...
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Speed of Lobsters
From the subreddit r/SpeedOfLobsters:
Edit the text of an image to create a new phrase
This meme format/style is pretty self-explanatory. Simply have a browse through the subreddit if you need more ...
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Sub-string Extractor with Specific Keywords
Challenge
The goal of this challenge is to make a function that takes an input string, a start keyword and a end keyword. The output extracted result is from (but excluded) the given start keyword to (...
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Interpret Interval Notation
Interval notation is a way to write complicated range bounds more conveniently and concisely than writing an inequality. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a program or ...
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Vandalizing Marquees
A marquee is a low-tech board that allows customizable letters. For example, here is a marquee:
SALE ON SNEAKERS
However, someone might come along and vandalize it ...
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Compute all close strings quickly
Input
A string S of length between 10 and 16 inclusive. The characters are taken from the 95 printable ASCII characters, byte values 32 (...
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How Many Atoms?
How Many Atoms?
Write the shortest code that when given a chemical formula as input, outputs the total number of atoms in the formula.
Input
A chemical formula in any reasonable format. Each chemical ...
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Animal-Alphabetical Sequence
The Animal-Alphabetical Sequence is an infinite string of letters built accordingly to the following procedure:
Start with the letter A;
Replace each letter with ...
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increment a binary number without arithmetic manipulations [closed]
Input: binary string
Output: binary string that represents the binary input + 1
Example: Given 10111 as an input, output 11000
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A Snake, A Camel And A Kebab
As many of you will know, almost every programming language has a standard casing system; unfortunately, we have not been able to agree on a singular system to use and now must frequently switch ...
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(1) Determine the amount of statues
Inspired by this stack of little statues that are currently on my desk at work, given to me by my colleagues from Sri Lanka when they visited The Netherlands:
This is split into two different ...
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(2) Can the statues be stacked?
Inspired by this stack of little statues that are currently on my desk at work, given to me by my colleagues from Sri Lanka when they visited The Netherlands:
This is split into two different ...
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Iterate over the neighborhood of a string
Input
A string S of length between 2 and 30. The only letters in the string will be a or b.
Output
All strings within ...
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Scramble a Megaminx!
Scramble a Megaminx!
A megaminx is a dodecahedral version of the familiar Rubik's cube. Since 2008, the World Cube Association uses Stefan Pochmann's megaminx scrambler. The scrambles look like this:
<...
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Mimic the X11 Primary selection
Background
In X11 (a windowing system used by a lot of Unix-like OS), what you would call the clipboard behave a bit differently than on other OSes like MacOS or Windows. While the "traditional&...
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Translate English to English
You have been hired by the American embassy in the UK to act as a translator. Being a programmer, you decide to write a program to do a bit of the work for you.
You've found out that often just doing ...
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Advent of Code 2020, Day 2, Part 1
Today, my girlfriend and I started with this year's Advent of Code to improve our Python. So far we only did Day 1 and the first part of Day 2. The latter, I found to be very fun, so, to spice it up a ...
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Compatible strings
When studying numerology, you can say two words (strings consisting entirely of letters) are compatible if they produce the same number under the following operation (let's use the string ...
asked Nov 20 '20 at 16:00
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Align a list of numbers [duplicate]
Perhaps something like this is here already, but I couldn't find it.
It is not the same as Aligning Lines!.
Example:
Input:
98.6
$2,750.17
-$23
-86
3,120,487.19
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Hacker Challenge: Guess the Correct Password
In an attempt to “liberate” their fellow birds, a group of highly intelligent hens are
attempting to compromise the zoo’s security system. To get access to the zoo’s mainframe,
the hens first need to ...
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Is It A Rainbow Color?
Challenge:
The challenge is to determine whether or not a color, given it's name, is one of the colors in the rainbow.
When supplied with a color, your program should output a truthy value if it is a ...
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Bi-directional translator
Bi-directional translator
The challenge is to create a translator that can translate a [a-zA-Z ] string into another string according to the mappings below. The ...
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Day of Week - Natural language processing and date parsing
You'll get a human-readable question matching one of the following syntaxes, and are expected to print/return the corresponding result. Finding similarities between the human-readable inputs and ...
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Simulate my keyboard wave light!
(The word frame in the following text does not mean an actual frame, it is used as a placeholder for an undefined time unit)
The task
Imagine you have a keyboard layout with only letters like so:
<...
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Get the Systematic Chemical Symbol
Background
The systematic chemical symbol is defined as such for \$ 118 < n < 1000 \$:
The first letter corresponds to the first digit, capitalized.
The second letter corresponds to the second ...
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Is it a digit haiku?
We can read 13576870234289 digit-by-digit in English, and it makes a haiku:
one three five seven
six eight seven zero two
three four two eight nine
We say it's a &...
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Unscramble the letters by letter frequency analysis [closed]
You know those riddles where every letter is swapped for another letter?
E.g. you get a text like
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We're much closer than you think
Martin Ender's 2D programming language Alice has two different modes depending on what orientation the IP has: orthogonal (Cardinal mode) or diagonal (Ordinal mode). Commands in Alice change their ...
asked Oct 16 '20 at 22:58
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Create an Accurate How-To Article
Here is an easy-intermediate challenge for anyone interested!
What is that?
A thing me and brother do a bit too often is this:
One of us has a problem and asks the other to explain how to do certain ...
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Decide a C integer literal
Objective
Given an ASCII string, decide whether it is a valid C integer literal.
C integer literal
A C integer literal consists of:
One of:
0 followed by zero or ...
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Converting Strings to Decimals (Gone Wrong)
What?
Many programming languages, both practical and esoteric, have functions, methods, etc to convert a given string to a decimal number. This is how the process might work:
For each character in ...
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Parse a Scala expression
Scala isn't a very commonly used language around here. Most of those who know it like it[citation needed], but some go :\ when they encounter its user-defined ...
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Size up a number
Intro
Given a whole number \$< 100,\$ extend/shorten the english representation of the number to have as many characters as it's value.
Sandbox
Rules
Take the number \$n\$, and get it in words ...
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Palindrome distance
Find what is the distance for a given string to its closest palindrome of the same length.
For this task I decided to give the characters further away from the string's center more weight (think of it ...
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Parse a nested parentheses
Objective
Mimic Haskell's reads :: ReadS ().
Or in other words, parse nested parentheses. Since the target type is () (the type ...
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Compactify the query string
Introduction
Just on Hacker news, John Resig contemplates
transforming a query “foo=1&foo=2&foo=3&blah=a&blah=b” into one that looks like this: “foo=1,2,3&blah=a,b", https://...
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Find the result of some assignment statements
In this challenge, the goal is to find the values of some variables after a number of assignments are done. An example input:
a = 5
b = 4
c = a = b
a = 2
b = a
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Will all the dominoes fall?
The purpose of this challenge is to figure out whether all the dominoes will fall, given an input string representing a top view of the table.
Input format
The program can take the input as a single ...
