Questions tagged [string]
A competition to solve a particular problem through the usage and manipulation of strings.
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God is real . . . unless declared integer
This challenge is inspired by Fortran's idiosyncratic implicit typing rules. Your task will be to determine the data type of the object GOD according to the ...
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Cook me a character meal
Chef Avillez is about to cook us some really nice meal. He is just waiting for us to give him some ingredients and to request a meal.
Task
Given a list of ingredients (strings matching ...
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Pendulum Encoding
Given a string as an input (which can be any acceptable/convenient format in your language), implement pendulum encoding. The test cases are split into individual items (which aren't quoted) for a ...
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Simulate D Flip-Flop
Objective
Simulate an edge-triggered D Flip-Flop.
What is D Flip-Flop?
A D flip-flop is an electronic digital device that outputs an inputted data (abbr. D) with synchronization to a clock (abbr. ...
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Vowels up, consonants down
Challenge
You will be given a string that can contain lowercase letters, uppercase letters, or spaces. You have to turn the vowels (a, e, i, o, u) in the string to upper case and consonants to lower ...
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Name your novel disease
Introduction
The current coronavirus disease is officially named COVID-19, from the 3 words corona virus disease, and the year 2019. (Technically it's coronavirus, making 2 words, but whatever...)
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Smaller Strings in Printable ASCII base
Task
Given a input string s which contains only printable ascii characters output all strings which contain only printable ascii characters and are strictly ...
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Calculate the average longest common substring exactly
[Question inspired by Can you calculate the average Levenshtein distance exactly? . Thank you Anush. ]
The longest common substring between two strings is the longest substring which is common to ...
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Special Character Coding Challenge - Check string for validity (Lots of rules) [closed]
There are 5 different "special characters": % & # $ !
These special characters are in a string with numbers. Like so: "5 ! 60%2$5.3" (valid). You must determine the validity of the string and ...
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The SBEVE Challenge
She said s(he) be(lie)ve(d), he said sbeve.
Input
A non-empty string, s. It's guaranteed that s will have only printable ASCII ...
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Convert a string to upper case without using built in methods/functions [closed]
Challenge
You will be given a string as an argument. You need to convert that string to upper case. But you can't use any built in method or function nor any external programs.
Rule
No use of ...
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Bad factorial joke
Sometimes I make bad jokes... And a bad joke I like to make involves interpreting exclamation marks in sentences as the factorial sign.
Task
Your task is to write a program that receives a sentence ...
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When I grow up I want to be ASCII
Task
Your task is to take a character in:
AÁÀÃÂBCÇDEÉÊFGHIÍJKLMNOÕÓÔPQRSTUÚVWXYZaáàãâbcçdeéêfghiíjklmnoõóôpqrstuúvwxyz
and turn it into a characters in:
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(RGS 3/5) Help me write Portuguese!
Context
(Feel free to skip, doesn't really matter for the algorithmic explanation of the task)
European Portuguese is a fairly complicated language to learn, mostly because of its grammar. One ...
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Scream very loudly
Write a script that outputs A to stdout infinitely.
There shold be no newlines or seperators between the characters
Standard loopholes apply
This is code-golf. ...
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(RGS 2/5) How many strings can you count within these character classes?
Task
Given a string composed of ASCII printable characters, return how many strings could fit the given pattern with character literals and regex-like ranges.
Pattern string
The pattern string ...
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String-wise calculus (i)
This will turn into a series involving other aspects of calculus, including using the "derivative" of a string to find "stationary points" etc, as well as "integration" of sentences
Introduction
If ...
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Is it really time?
A time in the format hhMMss is represented by six numbers in the range 0..9 (e.g.100203 for 3 seconds after 2 minutes after 10am (10:02.03), or ...
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Put in the quotes
Background
There's a terrible problem in my console - the quotes never get included inside the arguments! So, when given this argument:
["abc","def","ghi","jkl"]
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12answers
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Creating words by structure
Context
As a conlanger, I am interested in creating a uniform, naturalistic language. One of the tricks is to create vocabulary according to certain structures of words. An example from English: In ...
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Visualize a Recursive Acronym
Background
Famously, the acronym GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix. 1
It's recursive because, after expanding it once, it still ...
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The most common substring
The purpose of this task is to write a program or function to find the most common substring within a given string, of the specified length.
Inputs
A string, s, of ...
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7answers
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String permutations
Print the biggest-size subset of strings in the input that are all permutations of each other. If there are ties, any one will do. If no strings are permutations of each other (for example, only one ...
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Answer templating
Context
Just look around! Whenever someone posts an answer, the same template is followed over and over again! A first line with the byte count and language name. Then the code. Then the TIO link. ...
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Predictor Generator [closed]
Write a program that when given a string \$S\$, it generates a program of the same language as itself.
The generated program, when given a continuous substring of \$S\$, should predict the next ...
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Find the most important character
Find the most important character
The challenge is to write a program that outputs the most occurrent character in the input string, excluding these bracketing characters ...
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Name an arbitrary string [closed]
This should be easy: given an arbitrary string, your program will give it a name.
Requirements
Your program will accept an input of a UTF8 string, and output a string representing the input's "name",...
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Implement a Caesar Cipher with a Digit Shift
I assume everyone here is familiar with the Caesar Cipher that shifts letters to a certain index. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher for those who still needs introduction.
But, we can all ...
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The Magical Piper
An old test for programmers, taken from here (Note: in italian).
Along a road (denoted by '_'), there is a Magical Piper (denoted by '...
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Print this maximally long URL
Task
This one is simple. We want to compress a URL, but don't trust URL shorteners.
Write a program that prints to stdout (or a 0-argument function that returns) the following, working URL:
http://...
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3answers
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Shortest POSIX command line that eagerly removes dual newline sequences
Example:
echo -ne 'a\n\nb\nc\n\n\n\nd\n\n\n' | your-command
should output the same as
echo -ne 'ab\ncd\n'
Watch out, some ...
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28answers
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pleTriwapt Sgpin (Triplet Swapping)
Intro/Background
I was looking at a Flybuys card at Coles recently and noticed that if I took something like this:
Source, randomly found on the Internet
And swapped some words around, I'd get ...
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Repeat every other character in string starting with second character
Requirements:
Take a single word as input with only lowercase alphabetical characters (a-z)
Output a string where every other character is repeated, with the first repeated character being the second ...
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Write a Whitespace Interpreter
Challenge:
Your challenge is to write an interpreter for Whitespace. Given a string consisting of spaces, tabs, newlines, and potential other characters, as well as possible inputs for the Whitespace ...
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Simple Circular Words
A "simple circular" word is a word whose chords do not intersect. The chords of a word may be seen by laying out the alphabet in a circle, and then connecting the word's consecutive letters.
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Narcissistic Quine [duplicate]
Write a program/method that:
Becomes a quine when the input matches the source code;
Doesn't halt otherwise.
This is code-golf, so shortest solution wins. Avoid any standard loopholes.
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Super permutations
Super permutations
Input: A string
The program should loop through all lengths of the input (decrementing one each time), generate all combinations with replacement of the string, then make ...
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1answer
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Is everything in order?
Challenge:
Input: a string, consisting of only printable ASCII characters
Output: a truthy/falsey value whether its characters are in alphabetical order (based on their UTF-8 unicode values), from any ...
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4answers
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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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Average number of strings with Levenshtein distance up to 4
This is a version of this question which should not have such a straightforward solution and so should be more of an interesting coding challenge. It seems, for example, very likely there is no easy ...
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Partial tq interpreter
In this task you are expected to provide a list output given an input tq program. The tq programs will not contain whitespace inside them.
What is tq, in the first place?
tq is a lazy-evaluated ...
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Shorten String as Much as Possible [closed]
Introduction
In a list of strings, there is a certain length you can shorten strings to before they become indistinguishable. This is a pretty bad explanation, so here is an example.
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Can you calculate the average Levenshtein distance exactly?
The Levenshtein distance between two strings is the minimum number of single character insertions, deletions, or substitutions to convert one string into the other one.
The challenge is to compute ...
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1answer
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Average number of strings with Levenshtein distance up to 3
The Levenshtein distance between two strings is the minimum number of single character insertions, deletions, or substitutions to convert one string into the other one. Given a binary string \$S\$ of ...
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CahartcreS awppnig (Character Swapping)
Intro/Background
I was looking at "You Had One Job" pictures lately, and noticed an old favourite of mine:
And I said to myself: "I need a program that can generate text like that".
So I devised a ...
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Reversing and Shifting
Sandbox
Adapted from exercise 8 of 100 little Keg exercises
String manipulation is a very important part of any programming language. Consequently, that is what this challenge is about.
The ...
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11answers
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Convert Character Substrings to Numeric
I often have to take character data and categorize it numerically at work. A common thing I do is to take character type variables and convert them to numeric type characters, keeping same categories ...
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Even-Odd chunks
(Inspired by the Keg utility of this challenge)
Given a non-empty input string, e.g. s c 1= e(a"E"), split the input into even-odd chunks.
Example (Feel free to ...
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Fill the Golfeek gutter
Golfeek is the working name of an esolang I'm occasionally working on. One distinctive feature of this language is that each statement is encoded as a sequence of bits rather than a sequence of bytes.
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Hexagonify™ a String Block
Sandbox
What is Hexagonification™?
Hexagonification™ is a transformation that creates a hexagon with 3 copies of a rectangle block, each skewed to the right by 30 degrees and then ...
