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follow-up - Checking Nested Bracket Levels in Strings Programming Challenge
A follow-up to this question, this post improves on test case issues. To restate problem parameters, a given string S is considered closed if it: Has a matching ...
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Exercism: determine if a word or phrase is an isogram
The task: Determine if a word or phrase is an isogram. An isogram (also known as a "nonpattern word") is a word or phrase without a repeating letter, however spaces and hyphens are allowed ...
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Find and return the earliest occurring word from a string which contains the most repeating letters
I'd like feedback on my solution to the outlined programming challenge (medium level). I've tried it fast in any way I know how to, but, what might be a more efficient and/or pythonic solution? [...
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Run length encoding of an input string (Coderbyte 'Run Length' challenge)
I'd like feedback on my solution to the outlined (medium level) programming challenge. What might be a more efficient or Pythonic solution? The challenge as outlined by Coderbyte: [Run Length] (...
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String Rotation
I have solved a previous year question of 2018 codevita (link) in Python. Problem Description: Rotate a given String in the specified direction by specified magnitude. After each rotation make a ...
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Find the first non-recurring character in string
I wrote a solution to first-unique-character-in-a-string: Given a string, find the first non-repeating character in it and return its index. If it doesn't exist, return -1. If there is better way ...
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Find a substring count in an string
This code is written to find substring count in a string in Python 3. The original problem description is here. Please suggest better ways of solving this. ...
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Largest substring which starts and ends with some substring
This code is meant to find the length of the largest substring within a string that starts and ends with a given non-empty substring. Here are some examples: ...
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Reduce as many adjacent chars as possible in string
This code is meant to reduce a given string as much as possible by deleting adjacent characters. Here are some examples: ...
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Hackerrank Funny String python solution
"Funny String" problem from Hackerrank Suppose you have a String, \$S\$ of length \$N\$ indexed from \$0\$ to \$N-1\$. You also have some String, \$R\$, that is the reverse of \$S\$, where \$S\$ is ...
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Number of sub strings with same first and last character
Problem Statement: You are given a function \$f(x)\$, where \$f(x)\$ is \$1\$ if the first and last characters of string \$x\$ are equal; else it is \$0\$. You are given a string \$S\$ and you ...
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