Category "string"

Python fuzzy matches of elements from two lists of song titles

I have two lists of titles for jazz standards. Both lists have a couple thousand entries, and I would like to find the songs in the second list that are not co

Longest Common Prefix in Javascript

I am trying to solve the Leet Code challenge 14. Longest Common Prefix: Write a function to find the longest common prefix string amongst an array of strings.

Python FTP return corrupted name of file: じし->し ゙し (how can i properly decode/encode a string)

In my open source application, I use rented hosting with FTP. My application needs to read a list of files from a directory and parse it. However, some of the f

UITextView - limit amount of characters per line

I have a UITextView and I want to line break each time a user is extending a limit of chars per line (let's say 30 chars per line is the maximum). And I want to

Why does my string not match when reading user input from stdin?

I'm trying to get user input and check if the user put in "y" or "n". Surprisingly, in the below code, neither the if nor the if else case executes! Apparently,

Python: find the start index of a specific word number in a string

I have this string: myString = "Tomorrow will be very very rainy" I would like to get the start index of the word number 5 (very). What I do currently, I do sp

Evaluate String expression in Swift just like javascript eval

I am getting dynamic conditions through API to apply in the application. It could be any logical expression. The task is to run all the condition received in mo

R function to start new line every n words?

I want to create an R function that inserts a "\n" after every n words in a string (where n is an argument). e.g. startstring <- "I like to eat fried potat

Python Convert YYYYMMDD string to YYYY-MM-DD string Without Using Datetime

How can I convert a string such as: '20190501' To a string such as: '2019-05-01' Without first converting to datetime, for example: from datetime import

How to index a text field or make it searchable in MySQL?

I have stored about 7 million biological protein sequences in text field of MySQL table (using InnoDB storage engine and latin1_swedish_ci collation). Sequence

Removing the first occurrence of a string from another string in Python

I am trying to write a function that will remove the first occurrence of a string from another string, like: remove("an", "banana") == "bana" The goal is not t

how shall i call out this function using string format method?

i'm learning Python and have began with Google's Python Automation Beginner course. Idk if i chose it right but im already in week 4 and now have started facing

my compiler gives an error E0393 using a pointer to an incomplete type of the "String" class::Srep" is not allowed in inline functions

I tried to write a custom type from a book, my compiler gives an error E0393 using a pointer to an incomplete type of the "String" class::Srep" is not allowed i

remove consecutive substrings from a string without importing any packages

I want to remove consecutive "a" substrings and replace them with one "a" from a string without importing any packages. For example, I want to get abbccca from

What does this char string related piece of C++ code do?

bool check(const char *text) { char c; while (c = *text++) { if ((c & 0x80) && ((*text) & 0x80)) { return true;

String anagram in Java

i am trying to create a program for string anagram that follows these conditions: method should allow only letters, white space, commas and dots in an anagram.

Faced an error: excess elements in char array initializer during print out of array of strings

I've tryed to print out some array of strings but faced error: excess elements in char array initializer Please make a hint what's worng with this code? Step 1

Concatenate strings with quotation marks separated by commas

I want to write a function that concatenates multiple strings into one one string, but each part is marked with quotation marks and separated by a comma. The fu

How can I join strings within a list in Python? [closed]

I have the following list: values = ['A', 'C', 'B', 'D'] Is there a way I can get it to output the list as the following string? result = 'AC

Given a list of strings, return characters that appear in more than one string

I'm trying to implement a function which receives a variable number of strings and returns characters that appear at least in two strings: test_strings = ["hel