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Consider the following input string: 'MATCHES__STRING' I want to split that string wherever the "delimiter" __ occurs. This should output a list of strings: ['MATCHES', 'STRING'] To sp...
Streamline asked 13/8, 2010 at 8:46

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In Objective-C I used to convert an unsigned integer into a hex string with: NSString *st = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%2X", n]; I tried for a long time to translate this into Swift bu...
Vescuso asked 15/6, 2014 at 12:17

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I am parsing some delimiter separated values, where ? is specified as the escape character in case the delimiter appears as part of one of the values. For instance: if : is the delimiter, and a ce...
Sheepshearing asked 2/10, 2015 at 11:43

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I'm wanting to capitalize the fist letter of a string but leave the rest What I have: racEcar What I want: RacEcar
Laceylach asked 2/8, 2015 at 0:49

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I have a set of strings, e.g. my_prefix_what_ever my_prefix_what_so_ever my_prefix_doesnt_matter I simply want to find the longest common portion of these strings, here the prefix. In the above ...
Arachne asked 16/7, 2011 at 15:3

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There is a function similar_text() in the PHP library. The documentation (http://php.net/manual/en/function.similar-text.php) tells me that "This calculates the similarity between two strings...
Varden asked 21/6, 2010 at 12:32

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Just wondering, is there any equivalent in VBA to VB .NET's PadLeft and PadRight methods? As of right now, whenever I want to take a string and make it a fixed length with leading spaces, I do a F...
Ozonize asked 21/8, 2012 at 17:52

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In my current program one method asks the user to enter the description of a product as a String input. However, when I later attempt to print out this information, only the first word of the Strin...
Theolatheologian asked 30/10, 2011 at 17:49

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Months ago I made a short code that uses mb_strimwidth() to exactly fit some text into a table cell, putting dots at the end of a truncated string. Now, after some times, I tried to execute that sa...
Blende asked 10/1, 2013 at 9:50

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Good day, I would like to know if there is an easy way to chunk/split a string without breaking the words. Eg: var input = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin placera...
Overview asked 9/7, 2011 at 3:29

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A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction. To check whether a word is a palindrome I get the char array of the word and co...
Jochbed asked 9/11, 2010 at 21:28

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How do I make the first character of a string uppercase if it's a letter, but not change the case of any of the other letters? For example: "this is a test" → "This is a test" ...
Ori asked 22/6, 2009 at 8:25

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I have a data frame similar to the one below: Name Volume Value May21 23 21321 James 12 12311 Adi22 11 4435 Hello 34 32454 Girl90 56 654654 I want the output to be in the format: Name Volume Va...
Rillings asked 18/1, 2017 at 12:20

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Is there a nice way to iterate on the characters of a string? I'd like to be able to do foreach, array_map, array_walk, array_filter etc. on the characters of a string. Type casting/juggling didnt...
Reamonn asked 5/1, 2011 at 5:14

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I am writing a program that will be emailing reports out many (~100) clients which I want to test before I spam everyone. I want to do a test run against my production data and actually send the m...
Orcus asked 27/10, 2008 at 20:26

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I'm dividing a very long into much smaller number. Both are of type decimal.Decimal(). The result is coming out in scientific notation. How do I stop this? I need to print the number in full. >&...
Scherzo asked 7/6, 2021 at 23:19

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What is the difference between backticks (``) & double quotes ("") in golang?
Ramiform asked 24/10, 2017 at 18:12

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How do I split a string into a list of characters? str.split does not work. "foobar" → ['f', 'o', 'o', 'b', 'a', 'r']
Advocation asked 12/2, 2011 at 15:14

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I have an array of Strings that represent Binary numbers (without leading zeroes) that I want to convert to their corresponding base 10 numbers. Consider: binary 1011 becomes integer 11 binary 100...
Quake asked 16/4, 2012 at 17:45

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How do I join the result of ls -1 into a single line and delimit it with whatever I want?
Intimist asked 4/5, 2010 at 9:9

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I would like to count the number of lines in a string. I tried to use this stackoverflow answer, lines = str.split("\r\n|\r|\n"); return lines.length; on this string (which was original...
Crossbill asked 13/12, 2011 at 11:49

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I want to count the frequency of occurrences of all the letters in a string. Say I have $str = "cdcdcdcdeeeef"; I can use str_split and array_count_values to achieve this. array_count_values(...
Pottage asked 6/9, 2015 at 6:49

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I want to scan my Android project for all hardcoded Strings so I can localize the project, putting the Strings in strings.xml. I see an option in Eclipse to 'Externalize Strings...' but it isn't sp...
Decommission asked 6/11, 2011 at 3:15

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I have an integer that was generated from an android.graphics.Color. It has a value of -16776961. How do I convert it into a hex string with the format #RRGGBB? Simply put: I would like to output #...
Diapositive asked 30/6, 2011 at 19:12

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I found a Windows API function that performs "natural comparison" of strings. It is defined as follows: int StrCmpLogicalW( LPCWSTR psz1, LPCWSTR psz2 ); To use it in Delphi, I declared it thi...
Martin asked 21/6, 2009 at 18:50

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