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What is the optimal way to perform 5000 unique string replace functions in terms of performance?
Restructuring some code, and the way I built it up over time has portions that look something like this: s.replace("ABW"," Aruba "); s.replace("AFG"," Afghanistan "); s.replace("AGO"," Angola "); s....
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Is placing text markers inside of strings bad style? Is there an alternative?
I work with massive strings which need a lot of manipulation. For example, I might generate a string like this: Part 1 Boat Section A Programming Part 2 Partitioning boats for ...
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What string will match the regular expression (^$)|(^.*\\{count\\}.*$)\n?
I'm trying to pass a parameter to create a thumbnail in AWS Elastic transcoder, which shouldn't be that difficult except I know nothing about regular expressions. My log is giving me the following ...
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Finding and counting equal substrings in a set of strings
I'm thinking about a way of finding similar parts in Strings. I have a set of strings of varying length i.e: The quick brown fox jumps fox force five the bunny is much quicker than the fox is First, i ...
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why regex, when using global search and {0,} quantifier, match the end of the string?
I have asked a question here about js, regex, quantifiers and global search. I've understood finally how this works, but, let's take a concrete example and then I`ll write my question. Based on the ...
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Regex to String generation
Let's say that we have a regex and an index i. If we suppose that the set of strings that match our regex are sorted in a lexicographical order, how could we get the i element of this list? Edit : I ...
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Word recognition in a string without spaces or punctuation marks
I have a small C# project that reads a file and gives me an output: a string that does not contain spaces nor any types of punctuation marks. It may also contain a few misspellings. Ex. Output: ...
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