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Function that finds the exact number of times a string appears in a text
So I was tasked with providing a function that returns how many exact occurrences of attribute word appear in attribute text. The goal is for the function to be as fast as possible, and I managed to ...
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Matching words from a text with a big list of keywords in Python
I implemented the following code to retrieve medication names from a given text (prescription_text in the code). It works by matching words in the text with a list ...
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Adding string to a text file without duplicates
I have a function below, store_in_matchid_file, and it adds certain strings to a .txt file as long as that string doesn't already exist in the file. However that ...
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Python program to take in two strings and print the larger string
I have written a Python program to take in two strings and print the larger of the two strings.
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Check if we can form a word across words in a sentence
I've come across a simple challenge: given a phrase, check if we can form the given word vertically by stacking words in rows. For example, we can form the word ...
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Small Chatbot challenge
The Challenge :
You have a list conversations, in which each element is a conversation
that is represented as an array of words. You need to create a chatbot
that will complete a conversation ...
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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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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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Large number to many characters
My goal is to take any size number, and convert it to a string of smaller characters that represent the concatenation of the binary expansion of the number. To illustrate what I am talking about, here ...
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