How to define a mixed pattern consisting of string and regular patterns for...
I'm kinda stuck here, and I could really use some help:I want to define a function, let's call it quarterValue, that accepts a Rule as an input and returns an appropriate expression as output.A...
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I have a sentence:text= {"Concerning the main ecological question on the complexity-stability relationship, our findings reveal that high species diversities and dynamical stability of growing...
View ArticleFinding anagrams of given length from DictionaryLookup
What I'm trying to find are the 4 letter words in the Mathematica dictionary that have the most anagrams and the amount of anagrams these have each.But I can't seem to find all the 4 letter words in...
View ArticleSelecting sublists from a ragged array of lists of strings
A ragged array of strings with a mix of sublists is processed to output some sublists and not others.The sublists to output have a date, data, and information; in no particular order.The information...
View ArticlePruning units from oscilloscope data
I'm trying to import some data in a .txt file which contains numbers and words. I import a list which consists of four rows of measured data acquired with an oscilloscope, but the acquisition program...
View ArticleDefining a string based sort function
I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out the right Sort syntax to use on a list of lists. Consider the following list:list={ {"B0T", "Ch72", "T0p36K", "Vdiv2047p92", "Vg75V"}, {"B0T", "Ch70", "T0p28K",...
View ArticleRemove words from a string that contain special characters
I have a string like this:string="there is a humble-bee in Hanna's garden";Now I want to exclude those words that contain "-" and "'". My own solution would...
View ArticleHow to scramble a string of text?
How to implement foo function which works like this:foo @ "abcdef""fdbace"Steps: "bacdef", "cabdef", "dbacef", "ecabdf", "fdbace"Reverse the first two letter of the string "abcdef" which will give...
View ArticleExtract substrings with defined length from a string
I have a string like this onestr = "this and that but also thit and that";Now I want to extract, the first 3 letters before and after " and " so that the outcome is{his and tha, hit and tha}I tried it...
View ArticleElegant and fast way to join all string sequences
I want to do what title says:{"a","b",1,2,3,4,"a",2,2,2,"edg","?"} => {"ab",1,2,3,4,"a",2,2,2,"edg?"}in the most elegant way. For example one replacement rule for ReplaceAll.I have manage to do...
View ArticleUse string as name of list
I want to use a string as the name of a list. I'm reading in text file names from a directory. Each of those text files has a 1-dim list of things. I'd like to create a list from the file name which...
View ArticleSplitting a string into substrings of length 1 and 2
There is already a thread on how to split a string into equal sized chunks.I'm wanting to split a string into sets of substrings of length 1 and 2.For example, if I have the string "123456", my list...
View ArticleRandomly reversing a substring
I was thinking about how to make this with the StringReverse, but I failed:I have a sequence of (for example):str = "FDSRTYNHFNKHLIUHG";I wish to reverse a randomly long contiguous sequence of...
View Articleread Python-generated data file
I've read similar-but-not-quite-the-same questions : I have to read a python-generated data file which contains complex numbers. So, the numbers appear as (real+imag j). And of course Mathematica read...
View ArticleA function that maps Held symbol to string
Rougly my question is about constructing a function that maps Hold[var] to "var"even when var has an assigned value. In details :In[1] var=22; A=Hold[var];Can we construct a function F such thatF[A]...
View ArticleSplit a String by minus and zero
How can a String like0.0002230.0012730.000296-0.0014380.0011270.0014690.001457-0.001017`be converted to{0.000223, 0.001273, 0.000296, -0.001438, 0.001127, 0.001469, 0.001457, -0.001017}
View ArticleRemove expression with matched braces from string
I am writing a LaTeX document where the custom command \chg{...} highlights changes in some color. Here I am, with a document of about 50 of those. Sure, one could just remove "\chg" everywhere, but...
View ArticleHow to extract citations from a document
I would like to extract citations from a document. I can use the following:txt = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet Name0 (2000), consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et...
View ArticleNYT Spelling Bee puzzle
I've written some code that provides answers to the daily NYT Spelling Bee puzzles which ask you to find words that can be constructed from 7 given letters, one of which must be present in each...
View ArticleHow to separate a filename from its extension [closed]
Is there a function that separates a filename from the extension? E.g.MyNotebook.nbwould become{ "MyNotebook", ".nb" }I looked at FileNameSplit[], but that leaves "MyNotebook.nb" as the last...
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