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A competition to solve a particular problem through the usage and manipulation of strings.
0
votes
Answer to life, the universe, and everything
R, 99
f=function(x){s="";for(i in 1:26)s=c(s,(rep(letters[i],each=i)));s=paste(s,collapse="");if(x==s)42}
Usage:
f("test")
f("abbcccddddeeeeeffffffggggggghhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiijjjjjjjjjjkkkkkkkkkkkllll …
2
votes
Print custom alphabet
R, 219
Ugly, long... still works.
f=function(l){if(!nchar(l)%in%c(1,2))invisible()else{s=ifelse(nchar(l)==1," ","\n");l=substr(l,1,1);v=letters;if(l%in%v){}else v=LETTERS;l=grep(l,v);if(l==26)cat(v[ …
3
votes
How to randomize letters in a word
R, 104 (126)
f=function(w){s=strsplit(w,"")[[1]];paste(c(s[1],sample(s[2:(length(s)-1)]),s[length(s)]),collapse="")}
Usage:
for (i in 1:10) print(f("parola"))
[1] "plraoa"
[1] "prolaa"
[1] "praola …
0
votes
Cambridge Transposition
R, 179
Using the function I wrote for the randomize letters in a word problem:
Input:
s <- "According to a researcher at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word …
2
votes
Determine whether strings are anagrams
R, 77
f=function(x,y)identical(sort(strsplit(x,"")[[1]]),sort(strsplit(y,"")[[1]]))
Sample output:
f("boat","boat")
[1] TRUE
f("toab","boat")
[1] TRUE
f("oabt","toab")
[1] TRUE
f("a","aa")
[1] FAL …
15
votes
Print the alphabet without using each vowel
R, 17 + 19 = 36 characters
no ae (17):
intToUtf8(97:122)
no iou (19):
cat(letters,sep="")