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A competition to solve a particular problem through the usage and manipulation of strings.

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Find patterns in numbers based on the similarity of characters?

Python 2, 48 46 bytes Saved two bytes thanks to @ovs! s=set(''.join(l)) while s:s&=set(l[input()-1]) Try it online! Renamed numbers to l. If that's not okay then add 10 bytes for l=numbers.
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Output a text that doesn't output any of the characters used in the instructions to output t...

Python 2, 14 bytes, score 27672892.1429 print"\n"*9**9 Prints 387420490 newlines. Output truncated on TIO. Try it online!
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Sequence splitting

Scala, 20 bytes _.replace("A","\nA") Try it online! (Not sure if putting the types in the header is allowed, I'll change it if not.)
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Sequence splitting

Standard ML (MLton), 40 bytes String.translate(fn#"A"=>"\nA"|x=>str x) Try it online! Unfortunate that String.translate is so long...
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Enklactify these strings

Returns False if no valid enklaction string exists. Try it online! …
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3 votes

Who committed most?

Bash, 20 bytes head -1|cut -d\( -f1 Try it online!
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26 votes
38 answers
2k views

Divide a string

Challenge Given a string and a number, divide the string into that many equal-sized parts. … For example, if the number is 3, you should divide the string into 3 pieces no matter how long the string is. …
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13 votes
4 answers
456 views

Read a password: on mobile!

Challenge Read a string from the keyboard. Each time a characterk is entered, display it for a short time interval. …
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1 vote

Does the start equal the end?

Standard ML - 52 54 bytes open String fn s=>s<>""andalso sub(s,0)=sub(s,size s-1) …
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0 votes

Count the number of "e"s in a string without using the letter "e"

Scala, 20 bytes _.count(_=='\u0065') Try it online!
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2 votes

Isogram checker

Python 3, 46 bytes lambda s:s.isalpha()*len(s)==len({*s.lower()}) Try it online!
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13 votes
3 answers
347 views

Quote my quote!

Challenge Given a string as input, output a quotable version of that string by exchanging double- and single-quotation marks that are used for inner quotation. …
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56 votes
17 answers
3k views

"99 bottles of fizz"

Challenge Write a program that outputs the lyrics to 99 Bottles of Beer, but instead of "beer", output "fizz" if the number of bottles on the wall is a multiple of 3, "buzz" if it is a multiple of 5, …
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Is there an unmatched parenthesis in this String?

Python 2, 61 bytes Saved 4 bytes thanks to WheatWizard! lambda s:any(s.count(i)^s.count(j)for i,j in['{}','[]','()']) Try it online!
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3 votes

Print a shuffled deck of cards

Python 3, 107 bytes Saved 6 bytes thanks to @totallyhuman and 3 thanks to @CCB60! from random import* print(*sample([chr(int('1F0'+a+b,16))for a in'ABCD'for b in'123456789ABDE'],52),sep='') Try …
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