Questions tagged [syntax]
For challenges related to programming or markup language syntax, including but not limited to checking syntax for validity, converting from one syntax to another or fixing invalid syntax. See also the [balanced-string] tag.
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Is it a valid Go type?
Write the shortest program or function that will determine if an input is a valid Go type.
Spec
This challenge will use the following simplified subset of Go types. For more information, see the ...
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Convert the type modifiers from prefix to C-fix
Given a base type T, this can be augmented with * or [], each meaning pointer and array. For ...
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Read out the C variable declaration
Background
Variable declaration statement in C consists of three parts: the name of the variable, its base type, and the type modifier(s).
There are three kinds of type modifiers:
Pointer ...
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Flatten a Stack Cats program
Stack Cats is a reversible, stack-based language. Its reversible nature makes for somewhat weird loops. This challenge is about the conditional loop (...). When ...
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Expand Comparison Chains
Unlike most languages, Python evaluates a<b<c as it would be done in mathematics, actually comparing the three numbers, as opposed to comparing the boolean <...
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SQL select number ranges
I found it quite hard to achieve a range of numbers as rows in MySQL.
For example the range 1-5 is achieved by:
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Reindent Java/C/C++/etc. code
Write a program that adds or removes whitespace to format code nicely. Rules for what the code should look like when you're done:
No line should contain more than one of ...
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Sugar Free Syntax
In Haskell the list notation:
[a,b,c]
Is just syntactic sugar for:
a:b:c:[]
And the string notation:
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Fix my notation for lists of matrices, part 1
Sometimes, I have lists of constant matrices in my code:
[ [[1, 0],
[0, 1]],
[[1, 0],
[0,-1]],
[[0, 1],
[1, 0]],
[[0,-1],
[1, 0]] ]
That's ...
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Close your tags!
This is based off a previous deleted challenge of mine with the same name
Introduction
You are tasked with writing a program that returns a truthy or falsey value based on if the input has all its ...
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Prove 2+2=2*2 (and similar)
Output a full formal poof of such statements such as 1+2=3, 2+2=2*(1+1) etc.
Introuction
If you know Peano Arithmetic you can ...
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Ungolf batch programs [closed]
This question wants you to golf batch programms. In Batch you can use
set x=averylongbatchcommand
%x% arg1
which expands to
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Evaluate an expression of ternary operators
Consider a grammar over the alphabet {0, 1, ?, :} ...
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RegEx-golf: match all contents in a string
Your task is to write a RegEx that matches everything inside strings.
A string is defined as everything surrounded by (but not including) two unescaped ".
A ...
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Translate a Glypho program
Given an input of any valid Glypho program,
output its "human-readable" counterpart.
Glypho is an interesting esolang idea:
The instruction reference is given here. For each instruction, the ...