Questions tagged [string]
A competition to solve a particular problem through the usage and manipulation of strings.
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Convert a string of digits from words to an integer
Convert a string containing digits as words into an integer, ignoring leading zeros.
Examples
"four two" -> 42.
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I reverse the source code, you reverse the input!
Yet another blatant rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off. Go upvote those!
Your task, if you wish to accept it, is to write a program/function that outputs/returns its string input/argument. The tricky ...
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Fix my stuttered words
Stuttering is a problem which many of us might have experienced or at least seen it. Although most of famous speech recognition softwares have serious issues with stuttered speaking, let's imagine a ...
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Please Read Primes
Do you know the book Murderous Maths, in the Horrible Science series? In the book, the Laplace Princess' "ridiculous" cipher might be interesting enough and simple enough to be a code-golf challenge.
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How many spaces are there? [duplicate]
Your task is to input a string, and output the number of spaces in the string.
This is code-golf, so least number of bytes win. Your
Test Cases
Double quotes are not part of the test cases.
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Where are they calling from?
When making phone calls internationally, phone numbers are prefixed with a code indicating what country the number is located in. These codes are prefix codes, meaning that no code is a prefix of ...
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Inquiry answerer
Original: https://james-iry.blogspot.co.at/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html
Alain Colmerauer designed the logic programming language Prolog. His goal was to create a programming ...
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Cleaning the dishes
Cleaning the dishes
In this task, you will be given a bar of soap with a width of 1 or more units. You will also be given a plate, which you will have to clean, using the soap as few times as you can....
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Wrong keyboard position [duplicate]
You are in fact writing an interpreter for the language "Wrong keyboard position". You can pretend that you are not doing this and just follow the instructions below.
I typr re;atively accuratrly, ...
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Golfed “User-pinging” [closed]
In this task, given a user's display name(e.g. Display Name) from which the first space has been removed, use the Code Golf & Coding Challenges' Stack Exchange API to find a user it could be and ...
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Normalized Malbolge to Malbolge translator
In this task, you will write a program/function that takes a Normalized Malbolge program and outputs the resulting Malbolge program. (This is a secret tool that all Malbolge programmers are using!)
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Who was president of the USA?
Challenge
Write a program that takes as input a day from April 30, 1789 to August 21, 2019 and returns as output who was president of the USA that day.
Notes
For the list of US presidents, the ...
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Fancy String Replace
let S, a and b each represent a string
Goal: Write a standard string replace function where ...
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Weigh your words!
The challenge
Given two strings, each of length up to 30, consisting of printable ASCII characters (codes \$[32, 126]\$), put them onto a balance scale in the fewest bytes of code! This consists of ...
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caN it be acrOnymised? [duplicate]
The Typical Way to Make an Acronym Out of a Phrase Is to Take the First Letter of Each Word: TTWMAOPITFLEW. howeveR, sometimEs, you can make an acronym of random ...
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How much code would a codegolf golf if a codegolf could golf code?
Write a function or program that takes two words as input and outputs variants of the popular English tongue-twister "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?".
The ...
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!I!n!s!e!r!t! !n!b!e!t!w!e!e!n!
Posted from here.
This challenge is highly "distilled" from this question. Special thanks to @Akababa!
In this task, you should insert an exclamation mark at the start of the string and after every ...
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Levenshtein Neighbours
Most square numbers have at least 1 different square number with which their Levenshtein distance is exactly 1. For a given square \$x\$, each square that meets this condition is called a Levenshtein ...
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Output with the same length always
With challenges like Output with the same length as the code and Create output twice the length of the code, I thought of a separate, but similar challenge.
The task is to produce an output. It can ...
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Build a mob of suspiciously happy lenny faces ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I was going through a bizarre thread on Reddit, and came across this:
( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)
It's representing a group of people smiling somewhat suspiciously.
(In the challenge below ...
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Lípínguapua dopo Pêpê
Língua do Pê, or P Language, is a language game spoken in Brazil and Portugal with Portuguese. It is also known in other languages, such as Dutch and Afrikaans. (Wikipedia)
There are some dialects in ...
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Is this n-speak?
Inspired by Is it double speak?, I devised a harder challenge. Given a string, determine if the string is n-speak, for any \$n\geq 2\$.
N-speak is defined by repeating each letter \$n\$ times. With \$...
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Print an array as a table [closed]
Write a program that prints an associative array (key-value) to a table.
Requirements
Standard loopholes are forbidden
Please include a link to an online interpreter and the byte count in the ...
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The cat ate your input again!
Create a cat program, a.k.a a program that takes an input and prints it.
...Except, the program will randomly take characters away from your input and print that instead.
Each character in the input ...
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Is it double speak?
In an earlier challenge I asked code golfers to produce strings which copy each character in a string. For example:
TThhiiss iiss ddoouubbllee ssppeeaakk!!
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“DDoouubbllee ssppeeaakk!!”
Super simple challenge today, or is it?
I feel like we've heard a fair bit about double speak recently, well let's define it in a codable way...
Double speak is when each and every character in a ...
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Composing fill in the blanks
Let us say that we have a particular set of functions on strings. These functions are kind of like fill in the blanks or madlibs, except that they only take one input and use that to fill in all of ...
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Invert Some Switches on a Switchboard
Inspired by this challenge.
Goal:
Given a pre-configured switchboard and a list of indexes, invert the switches at the given indexes.
A switchboard is made up of some number of switches (...
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Character Frequency in a String [duplicate]
Given a string of printable ASCII, output the frequency of each character in that string.
The Challenge
Input is given as a string of printable ASCII characters (decimal ...
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Brute-force the switchboard
The other day, our team went to an escape room. One of the puzzles involved a board of six mechanical switches where you had to find the correct combination of on and off in order to unlock a box, ...
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Battle of the Jimmys
/o\ Jimmy has been receiving a lot of attention on this site recently and it has caused Jimmy to get a little stressed. The bodybuilder Jimmys ...
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How many pages have issues? [duplicate]
At work I've been acting as quality control on our public documents, to make sure that they are WCAG 2.0 compliant. Given the length of some of these documents there tend to be issues, and so I record ...
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Inscriptio Labyrinthica
In the burial place of King Silo of Asturias there is an inscription that reads SILO PRINCEPS FECIT (King Silo made this).
The first letter is found in the very middle, and from there one reads by ...
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Operation Unz̖̬̜̺̬a͇͖̯͔͉l̟̭g͕̝̼͇͓̪͍o̬̝͍̹̻
I'm sure you're all familiar with Z̃͗̇̚͟Ḁ̬̹̈̊̂̏̚L̜̼͊ͣ̈́̿̚G̱̮ͩ̃͑̆ͤ̂̚Õ̷͇͉̺̜̲ͩ́ͪͬͦ͐ ̪̀ͤͨ͛̍̈͢ĝ̭͇̻̊ͮ̾͂e̬̤͔̩̋ͮ̊̈ͭ̓̃n͖͎̘̭̯̳͎͒͂̏̃̾ͯe͕̖̋ͧ͑ͪ̑r̛ͩa̴͕̥̺̺̫̾ͭ͂ͥ̄ͧ͆t͍̻̘̆o͓̥ͤͫ̃̈̂r̹̤͇̰̻̯̐ͮ̈́ͦ͂͞. If not, you can play ...
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Alphanumeric Line and Curve Counting
Given an input string, write a program that outputs the total number of lines and curves it has.
The Challenge
Take input from STDIN, or any other input method.
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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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A scene of Jimmy diversity
As you probably know, there have been multiple lovely Jimmy challenges recently popping up. In these challenges, you were challenged with our beloved friend's acrobatics skills. Now we've got a ...
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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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Do you know your 'KVZ's?
Concept
In what ways can you scramble the English alphabet so that it can still be sung to the tune Twinkle Twinkle Little Star without ruining the tune?
Rules
Swapping
Let's just assume the ...
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Mutation chain generator [duplicate]
Given a start word and a target word, print the "mutation chain" that starts at the start word and ends at the target word.
You may assume both words are lowercase and only have alphabetic characters....
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String to Bit Transition
Task
Given an input string of one or more ASCII characters which codepoints are between 0 and 128 (exclusive), do the following:
Convert each character into its 7-bit ASCII code (if the ASCII code ...
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Swapping “Good” and “Bad”
Challenge Description:
Write a program that asks the user for input. The user will enter Good or Bad. You do not have to ...
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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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Jimmy needs your help!
It seems as of recent, there have been a lot a Jimmys falling to their death, as can be seen here, and here where you were asked to determine if Jimmy would fall. It is time we put a stop to this ...
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Alice's First Code Review
Alice is an intern in a company that uses Brainfuck as a primary language for both client-side and server-side development. Alice just has written her first code and she's a bit nervous as she's ...
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Can the cursor reach the bottom?
In a matrix of characters, a cursor is a movable position between two adjacent characters, before the first character or after the last character in a line, like that "I"-shaped indicator which moves ...
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How many Jimmys can fit?
In this simple but fun challenge, you were asked to determine if Jimmy would fall of their platform. Jimmy has three body parts /, ...
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Count All Possible Unique Combinations of Letters in a Word
You are given a string, which will contain ordinary a-z characters. (You can assume this will always be the case in any test, and assume that all letters will be lowercase as well). You must ...
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Print the total length of all “quoted” characters
Rules
In this challenge, I'm going to redefine the definition of "quotes" a bit.
Quotation marks (AKA quotes) are any identical characters used in pairs in various writing systems to set off direct ...
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Print the new site header
The new site header has some bits of source code from various questions as the background. Here are the first 3 lines:
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