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Convert Two Character String into a Binary Vector
Given a string "XOXXO" convert it into a binary vector. [1 0 1 1 0] Paul Berglund implemented an optimal method in <http://ww...

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Count letters occurence in text, specific to words with a given length.
Build a function with two input arguments: a string and a word length (number of letters), that outputs a vector of counts of th...

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Simple Decoder Ring
The stereotypical _decoder ring_ is remembered as a cereal box prize from the 1950s. Kids learned about cryptography by startin...

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Is the paranthesis sequence balanced ?
Quantum mechanics and computer science are interested in bra-kets. Today however you, the player, will have to write a function ...

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Morse Code Generator! Try it!
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Eliminate Polysyllabics: Long live short words!
Given a string s1, return s2 in which all the words with more than one syllable have been removed. To make things simple, we ...

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How many digits are there?
Input(s) - any string Output(n) - number of digits within string s

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Backslang, odds are you used it at some point in time...
So backslang is a language that can be used to communicate in an easy decode code, if people know the rules of decoding it. Wel...

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Split a given string from the first instance of a given character
A simple operation to split a given string into two substrings at the point where the desired character is first found. e.g. ...

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Calculate a modified Levenshtein distance between two strings
Inspired by the Cody problem found here. The Levenshtein distance is a charater-based string metric used to measure the differe...

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Compress strings (not springs)
Please remove excess space, limit one space between others, and no space before punctuation marks. * For example, 'Trendy , ...

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Bang Bang in Bangalore
Imagine a strange language disorder, Bangolangosis, has developed among trigonometricians of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banga...

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Formatting currency numbers
Given a number, format it properly for textual display using the notation $xxx,xxx,xxx.xx. Assume that no more than two digits ...

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Convert a structure into a string
Convert the contents of each fields into a string. Example with an input structure s with 2 fields : s.age = '33' s....

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Split a string into chunks of specified length
Given a string and a vector of integers, break the string into chunks whose lengths are given by the elements of the vector. Ex...

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Transposition as a CIPHER
This all about transcripting a text message. If the input string is: s1 = 'My name is Sourav Mondal', then the output is: s2 = '...

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Large Sum (inspired by Project Euler 13)
Your function will be provided an arbitrary number of numbers of arbitrary sizes as a cell array of strings. Some numbers will b...

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Find matching parenthesis
One of the most indispensable things about a great text editor for programming is the ability to quickly jump between matching p...

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Find matching string from a list of strings
Write a function that returns a string that is a unique match (if it exists) of the string inStr from a list of strings strList....

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English to Pig Latin Translator
Pig latin is a faux-language based off of English. The rules are as follows (excerpted from the wikipedia entry for Pig Latin): ...

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Pig Latin to English Translator
Pig latin is a faux-language based off of English. The rules are as follows (excerpted from the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi...

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Decimal Comparison
*Background* A utility of particular interest to Cody and other MATLAB ventures is comparing the equality of two numbers. In ...

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QWERTY Shift Code Decoder
Decode a string encoded using the QWERTY shift code. QWERTY shift code is where the message was touch typed but with an offse...

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Without the French accent please!
Suppress the French accent. Example 'Déjà présent' -> 'Deja present'

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Ordinal numbers
Given an integer n, return the corresponding ordinal number as a character string. For example, ord(1)='1st' ord(2)=...

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Cell Counting: How Many Draws?
You are given a cell array containing information about a number of soccer games. Each cell contains one of the following: * ...

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Find Rotated Substring
Given a string s1, find if a rotated version of s1 is present in a second string s2. For example, rotated version of some strin...

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Use of regexp
Given a string, containing several sentences, such as: 'I played piano. John played football. Anita went home. Are you safe?...

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Convert String to Morse Code
Convert a given string to international <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code Morse Code> * Strings will only have [A-z], ...

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letter yes yes & letter no no
Split a string into two strings, wherein the first string has all alphabetic letters and the second string has all the remaining...

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