Questions tagged [string]
A competition to solve a particular problem through the usage and manipulation of strings.
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Who will win the election?
This is a challenge in which two people, 1 and 2, are running for office. People deterministically vote in certain ways in the world of 1 and 2, which can allow for the candidates to figure out the ...
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Is it Valid Modified UTF-8?
UTF-8 is a relatively simple way to encode Unicode codepoints in a variable-width format such that it doesn't easily confuse code that isn't Unicode aware.
UTF-8 overview
Bytes in the range of 1-...
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Mis-decode a date
Background
Inspired by a now deleted question by John Burger from which I quote:
Now obviously no human made this mistake. It's a mis-decode of something - perhaps the ISBN? My question is: ...
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Pattern Finder - Find Repeated Pattern in String [closed]
Introduction
This is a little challenge with the goal of identifying repeated pattern "blocks" in a string, and outputting them with their frequency of occurence from left to right.
A friend asked ...
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Write a function/method that takes in a string and spells that word out using the NATO Phonetic Alphabet. Titlecase optional
Write a program that takes in a string and spells that word out using the NATO Phonetic Alphabet.
The mapping is as follows:
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Clock (transliterate) Cipher
Introduction:
I have loads of different ciphers stored in a document I once compiled as a kid, I picked a few of the ones I thought were best suitable for challenges (not too trivial, and not too ...
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Oreoorererereoo
Oreoorererereoo
Given an input string that is similar to the word "oreo", give an ASCII representation of the cookie that is as wide as the input string (to ensure cookie stability).
Rules
The ...
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Remove indentation [duplicate]
Write a program which removes any common leading spaces from the input string. For example, if the least indented line started with 3 spaces, and every other line has ...
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Corrupting A Binary File By Interpreting It As Text
Using FTP's ASCII mode to transfer binary files is a bad idea. It is likely to corrupt your data. Badly. Let's simulate this corruption!
Your task is to write a program which takes a file as input ...
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Encode the date in Christmas Eve format
The day this post was published was Christmas Eve. Tomorrow will be Christmas. Yesterday was Christmas Eve Eve. In two days it will be
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Parse the Bookworm dictionary format
I've recently been indulging myself in some nostalgia
in the form of Bookworm Deluxe:
In case you haven't seen it before,
it's a word game where the goal is to connect adjacent tiles to form words.
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Trifid Cipher (without keyword)
Introduction:
I have loads of different ciphers stored in a document I once compiled as a kid, I picked a few of the ones I thought were best suitable for challenges (not too trivial, and not too ...
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String rotation - output string repeatedly moving first character to the end
The challenge here is to take a string and output all its rotations, by repeatedly moving the first character to the end, once per character in the string, ending with the original string:
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Doubled-letter steganography
Steganography hides a given message inside a given carrier, producing a package that does not look suspicious. For this challenge, you will write a program that takes an ASCII message and an ASCII ...
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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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Map the cheaters!
After all assignments are submitted, a dictionary is created that maps student number to the hash of their file.
This dictionary, or hashmap, or mapping (whatever your language calls it) will look as ...
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Algorithm to print the Minimum number of adjacent character swaps necessary to remove all instances of “VK” in a given string?
For example, how many adjacent swaps are at least needed to convert some string such as BVVKCV to one without any instances of VK...
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Find what a phrase with removed letters originally said in fewest characters [closed]
Write a program that, given a string of capital letters, output all possible phrases that could have been written originally, using any variant of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Input
There are two ...
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Computer Cipher
Introduction:
I have loads of different ciphers stored in a document I once compiled as a kid, I picked a few of the ones I thought were best suitable for challenges (not too trivial, and not too ...
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Make a simple word wrapper
(Note: This is my first ever code golf question, but as far as I can tell, nobody else has done exactly this, so I should be good.)
Your task is to make a program or function that takes in a string <...
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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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Split Mark's marks
Challenge
Mark is a student who receives his N marks in a concatenated way in a one single line.
The challenge is to separate his marks, knowing that each mark ...
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Lazy word problems
Summary
A teacher was told to prepare word problems for the students. She is given a list of equations and told to write them as the corresponding word problem. However, she is very lazy, so she ...
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How frustrating is my movie?
My parents have an home theater device. The remote is broken making it incredibly difficult to navigate rightwards in a menu. Most the time it doesn't work but when it does it moves rightwards ...
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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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Upward and onward to greater glory!
May this challenge serve as (another) tribute to Stan Lee, who passed away aged 95.
Stan Lee has left us an invaluable legacy and a peculiar catch word: Excelsior. So here's a small challenge based ...
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Should this identifier be suggested?
Introduction
In Android Studio and other IDEs there are code completions to assist efficient code insertion (especially when the names of the classes or methods are so verbose), like the one in the ...
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Doce logf a string swapper [closed]
Challenge
Take an input string \$s\$, and split it into words \$w_1, w_2, ..., w_n\$. If the amount of words is odd, then return \$s\$. Otherwise, for each word: Take the second last letter, and swap ...
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How fast am I vrooooming?
Introduction
My car speedometer was hacked! Instead of showing me how fast i'm driving, it just shows: "Vroooom!" Please help me know how fast i'm going.
Challenge
Take a string as input, and check ...
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0xDEADBEEF is not tasty, but still 0xFEEDBEEF
Inspired by "You had me at hello"
Introduction
For those who don't know, hexadecimal is a base system like decimal. Contrary to decimal however, it uses 16 (hence the name) digits instead of 10.
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x bottles of y on the z [duplicate]
I do not believe this question to be a duplicate of this one, since this one requires more string manipulation, if it is still a duplicate feel free to close this question
Introduction
Your ...
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Split it. But not all!
Inspired by this StackOverflow question.
Input:
We'll take three inputs:
A delimiter-character D to split on
A character I ...
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Find a recursive acronym
Introduction
A recursive acronym is an acronym that contains or refers to itself, for example:
Fish could be a recursive acronym for ...
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Array indexes to number and number reversed
Given an input array having minimum length 2 and maximum length 9 having any initial values output an array having length ...
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Playing with the musical turtle
My two kids like to play with the following toy:
The colored areas with the shapes inside can be touched and the turtle then lights the area and plays a sound or says the name of the color or the ...
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Find the closest RGB color [closed]
Input: A valid 6 HEX digit color code wihout a # prefix
Valid:
000000
FF00FF
ABC123
Your job is to find to which one of these:
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IP address or not?
Your network scanning tool is annoyingly picky about input, and immediately crashes if you feed it an IPv4 address that contains improper characters or isn't properly formatted.
An IPv4 address is ...
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Let's play tennis 2: east-west game
There is a challenge Let's play tennis by Daniel. He proposes to place a court in the North-South direction. My proposal is to create a court to play tennis in the East-West direction too.
You ...
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String analyser
Use any programming language to display "AWSALILAND" in such a way, so that each letter is in a new line and repeated as many times as its position in the English alphabet. For example letter, (A) ...
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Japanese pitch accent numbers
Your challenge is to turn a Japanese word and a dictionary pitch accent number into a new string where the rises and falls in pitch are marked: e.g. (2, ウシロ) → ウ/シ\ロ...
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Print a Wavy String Line-by-Line
Challenge
Write a program or function that takes in a string s and integer n as parameters. Your program should print (or ...
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Text compression
With the given text below, there are some words in the text that repeats several times in the text. Use any programming language to write a short code that compresses the text to display it. Or in ...
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Cycle my input please [duplicate]
Input
A string s of printable ASCII characters, newlines, and spaces (0x20 ( ) to 0x7E (~)),...
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Accordion Solitaire: Which First Moves Can I Make?
Introduction:
Unfortunately an Accordion Solitaire Solver challenge already exists (Solve a game of Accordion), so instead this easier related challenge.
Let's start by explaining how Accordion ...
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Can the number be split into powers of 2?
Yesterday while playing with my kid I noticed the number in his toy train:
So we have $$4281$$ that can be split into $$4-2-8-1$$ or $$2^2-2^1-2^3-2^0$$
So simple challenge: given a non-negative ...
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One line Keyboard
The Challenge
The goal of this challenge is to determine whether a given String can be typed using only one line of a standard UK QWERTY keyboard.
This is ...
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Ternary-if Converter
In Java/.NET/C/JavaScript/etc. you can use ternary-ifs to shorten if-statements.
For example (in Java):
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Be there, for the square [duplicate]
Sometimes when you're lying in bed and reading a message, your phone screen will pop into landscape mode right in the middle of a sentence. Only being able to read left to right, you find yourself ...
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You are given a string to make and starting with the empty string, make it using appending and cloning cost
Your task is to create the given target string. Starting with an string that is empty, you will have to add characters to it, until your string is the same as the one we want. You can either add a ...
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Supreme Sum String
Supreme Sum String
Given an input string, return the word with the highest sum of each of its unicode characters.
Rules
The input should be seperated by whitespace
The value of each word is based ...
