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Q&A stpecpy(): Design a better string copy function that truncates

I was directed a few days ago to a post about a string copy function, which IMO improves the commonly known string copy functions, including strlcpy(3BSD), strlcat(3BSD), and strscpy(9). It define...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by alx‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by alx‭

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Q&A How to efficiently remove every occurrence of one string inside another

I have two strings and want to remove every occurrence of the second string inside the first one starting from the beginning of the first string and as if each occurrence was removed immediately. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by dumplings‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by __blackjack__‭

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Q&A array of arrays vs array of pointers to store array of string literals

Let's consider the following code: const char a[][4] = {"aa", "aaa"}; const char *b[] = {"bb", "bbb"}; const char *const c[] = {"cc", "ccc"}; For shared libraries, both b and c arrays require...

0 answers  ·  posted 12mo ago by alx‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by alx‭

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Q&A Vim: how to search for all instances of a string, except for those that are between two specific strings

Using Vim, I am trying to search for all instances of a specific string, except for those that fall somewhere in between two other specific strings. For example, I want to determine all instances ...

2 answers  ·  posted 12mo ago by Trevor‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by Dirk Herrmann‭

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Q&A Delete all occurrences of a character in a webpage with vanilla JavaScript

Primarily for learning, I would like to try to delete a specific character (letter or number or special character), wherever it is in a webpage, with vanilla JavaScript. The webpage won't change a...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 1y ago by hkotsubo‭

Question javascript replace
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Q&A Understanding createTreeWalker method in the context of replacing strings (or parts of them)

I want to ensure I understand the following code; credit to user:m3g4p0p on Sitepoint, for this code: const walker = document.createTreeWalker( document.body, NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT ) let...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 1y ago by hkotsubo‭

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Q&A Common string handling pitfalls in C programming

Preface: This is a self-answered Q&amp;A meant as a C string handling FAQ. It will ask several question at once which isn't ideal, but they are all closely related and I'd rather not fragment the p...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Separate digits of a number in groups with different sizes

I have a list of 11-digit numbers stored in one single column in Excel, and I need to separate the digits according to this pattern: 2-2-1-3-3. Example: 00002451018 becomes 00 00 2 451 018. How c...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by sfrow‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A How to get string length in D?

I'm new to D and am planning to use it for golfing. I want to make a ROT13 converter and I want to determine the length of an inputted string. Is there a function for this? If not, what ways can I...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by hkotsubo‭

Question string function d
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Q&A Input taking only first character of a string

I wrote a program named Kernel.c 2 months into my life in programming and created 4 functions at the time, and now there are 7 functions. Recently, I updated the program completely onto an online ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by elgonzo‭

Question c string input
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Q&A How to calculate the Hamming weight of a binary string?

A presently unanswered question on Stack Overflow asks: Does there exist a popcount function in libreoffice calc? and clarifies that "I often use BASE(A1;2;8) to show a number in binary".

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by pnuts‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Count the number of occurrences in a text string

The question about LibreOffice Calc - Number of occurrences in text string from Binz Nakama at Stack Overflow interested me because of one of the comments posted there: OK, I think this would requ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by pnuts‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Multiple string concatenation in Excel

In Excel I would like to concatenate several strings into one. I could type and fill in the blanks CONCATENATE(A1, A2, ....) but it is a lot of work This would be cool, but it does not work CONCATE...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by James Jenkins‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A How does Zalgo Text work, and how can I prevent my application from accepting it?

A Zalgo Text is something like this: T̃͟͏̧̟͓̯̘͓͙͔o̤̫͋ͯͫ̂ ̥͍̫̻͚̦͖͇̌ͪ̇ͤ̑̐͋̾̕i̢͖̩͙͐͑ͬ̄̿̍̚ͅn̵̢̼̙̳̒̄ͥ̋̐v̡̟̗̹̻̜͕̲ͣ̐ͤͤ͒́oͫ͂̆͑ͩ҉͇̰͚̹̠̫͔̗k̷̭̬̭͙̹̺̯ͩ̌̾̒̋̓ͤ͛͘͠e̥͙̓̄̕ ̵̫͈ͪţ̱̺̺̑̿̉̌͛̂̇h͙̣̬̓̂͞ę̡̲̟͎͉̟͛̓̉̆̉͘ ͬ̒...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by hkotsubo‭

Question string character
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Q&A Help me understand why python3 string.format() raises Attribute error [closed]

I'd like some help understanding why the third call to print() raises AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'format' from os import path import inspect def myfunction(): pri...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Greg‭  ·  closed 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A How to override default string formatter?

It is possible to create a new formatter class by subclassing string.Formatter class and then to use it like myformatter.format("{foo:customformat}", foo=foo). It's not super-convenient though, and...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by luser‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A What is a standard definition (or a CS theory based formal definition) for Escaping?

I personally would define "escaping" in software development in general and coding in particular as follows: Making an exception to match data which otherwise would not be allowed to be matched: I...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

Question string escaping
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Q&A Is concatenation a logical AND?

As a person with no significant background in mathematics and computer science I thought that concatenation and AND are logically identical if not very similar because both add something to somethi...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 2y ago by deleted user

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Q&A Does using an Integer have any speed/performance benefits over a string in JSON

I'm working on an API to respond some data about a bunch of orders and items. The order and item numbers are always an integer (it's the order.id and item.id value, respectively). Originally the re...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Welz‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by .                                                .‭