Questions tagged [strings]
Questions about sequences of symbols, sets thereof and their properties as well as uses.
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I saw this question posted and can't seem to find it for some reason, so I'm posting it again.
There's a leetcode problem that's asking for the number of possible strings that are alphabetically ...
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$\omega$-string avoiding a set of substrings
Given a set of strings $S$ over $\{a,b\}$. How to determine whether there is an infinite sequence consisting of ${a, b}$ (i.e., a $\omega$-string), which doesn't have any string in $S$ as a substring?
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which neural network is good for predecting the value of strings
I have a dataset that contains some strings. A numeric value is assigned to each string.
I want to develop a machine learning (deep learning) model to get a string and predict its value.
What neural ...
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Find words that are combinations of other words in list
I've been wondering how to solve this algorithm question recently but am not sure. What's the most optimal algorithm to solve this problem?
There is a list with words like: pin, pine, apple, pineapple....
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In a set of sentences, how could I determine the fewest sentences that contains all characters?
So, for the sake of simplicity, I am going to use English characters for this example. Let's say I have a set of strings of characters in English ranked by difficulty: Easy, Intermediate, Advanced.
So ...
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string concatenation vs language concatenation
What exactly is the difference between
$$
C = \{a^*\}\{b\}\{a^*\}\{b\}\{a^*\}\{b\}
$$
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D = \{a^nba^nba^nb | n \geq 0 \}
$$
It is known that D is non-regular and C is regular, but I am not sure ...
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A silly doubt on Computer Science Objects: Arrays, Lists, Strings, and Vectors, are they the same concept?
First of all I'm a Physics Student and I've been arguing with my brother concerning the usage and the fundamental meaning of a vector on Computer Science (CS).
I) Vectors
A vector have a axiomatic ...
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How do you prove these string/number radix encoding/decoding algorithms work?
A while back I learned of these great algorithms:
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Finding first occurence of all possible matches?
Say you have multiple strings that you're trying to match in a text. And it's possible all these strings have a match in the text. Is there a good way to return out of all the matching strings the ...
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Binary string satisfying several constraints
I'm trying to solve this problem, but without success.
Problem: You're given a binary string where some of the bits are replaced by ?. You're also given several ...
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Minimum number of given operations in order to group letters in a string
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Suppose we have a string containing letters 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', and the characters are placed in a stack. We also have an empty stack. Ultimately, we want all of the same letters to be ...
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If we want to map abbreviations of full-English words (e.g. map “Jan” to “January”), how can we identify abbreviations which map to multiple words?
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How can we construct a trie which maps abbreviations of names-of-the-month to full-month (we map the abbreviation "mar" to "march")?
The set of all abbreviations is ...
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Is there a way to determine whether a list of integers can be a prefix function?
Say you had
(0,0,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)
or
(0,1,0,1,0,1,2,3,0,1,0,0,1)
Could you use, for example, the KMP algorithm to deduce the validity of the above lists as prefix functions? I know there is a ...
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Number of words of length n for special language
Let $\Sigma$ be an alphabet and let $L$ be a language over it with the following properties:
if $w\in L$ then there exists $v\in \Sigma^*$ such that $wv \in L$ and for every $s\in \Sigma$ the word $...
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Isn't this Commentz-Walter algorithm buggy?
I've been trying to piece together an implementation of the Commentz-Walter string search algorithm. The idea is to construct a state machine from a trie, working backwards from the earliest feasible ...
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Largest set of 10-digit numbers where none have Hamming Distance = 1 with any other
I'm working on a system that will require manual data entry of 10-digit numbers (Ī£ = 0123456789). To help prevent data errors, I want to avoid generating any two ...
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Strings of infinite length?
Suddenly a thought came to my mind and I thought of resolving it as follows.
We know that:
String is a finite sequence of symbols from an alphabet $\Sigma$
i.e. we cannot have an infinite sequence ...
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Efficient way to concatenate strings to find specific split up values
I'm working with a list of objects ("Section") that contains a string value among other fields. The strings in all of the sections can be concatenated to form the complete text. I am, however, wanting ...
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What is the appropriate term for the “string splitting” problem?
To be clear, I didn't hear of this in any particular venue, and so can't point you to one.
Two variants that I can bring you:
String spitting
Given a string (sequence of elements), and a function ...
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Best way to find and store difference between two strings
I want to implement my version of the Codeshare service. Now I'm thinking of an implementation where all users have access to one string that can change (if you already have a better option here - ...
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Longest Even-Length Palindromic Subsequence (with distinct adjacent characters except for the center 2 letters)
You are given a string S containing lowercase English characters. You need to find the length of the largest subsequence of S that satisfies the following pattern:
X1,X2,X3...Xn,Xn,...X3,X2,X1
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How would I make sure my compressed string has the smallest length possible?
I'm trying to make a function that takes a string and compresses the repeating blocks. The code I'm using is implemented in such a way that a single character like 'a' would be converted to '1(a)' ...
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Is there an algorithm to find the smallest set of the shortest prefix substrings of a continuous numeric sequence?
Before anything I want to preemptively thank anyone who drops by for their patience, I don't have any formal CS background so I'm probably going to use some of these terms wrong.
I have a puzzle: ...
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Are there search algorithms that perform better on a Rope than a String?
I want to implement fast text-search over a Rope data structure. That is, a B-Tree of characters, where the characters are not sorted. (Meaning the standard way to search in a B-Tree by key does not ...
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finding all cyclic substrings of a string
I have been stuck on this problem for a while now; any help would be appreciated.
Given a string S, find the number of distinct substrings which are composed of 2 or more consecutive strings. For ...
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Should a prefix tree (trie) node store only a single character or a string?
I've just implemented a Trie and I thought it would be a good idea to store strings in the Trie nodes in contrast to storing single characters.
Storing strings is for sure more space-efficient and ...
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Given a list of strings, find every pair $(x,y)$ where $x$ is a subsequence of $y$. Possible to do better than $O(n^2)$?
Consider the following algorithmic problem: Given a list of strings $L = [s_1, s_2, \dots, s_n]$, we want to know all pairs $(x,y)$ where $x$ is a subsequence of $y$. We can assume all strings are of ...
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Fastest way to find a substring 'ab' inside a string 'abab'
Let $A$ be an input alphabet - a finite set of symbols. Elements of $A$ are called the characters.
The alphabet I am interested in is the set of all ordinary letters ...
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Sorting array of strings (with repetitions) according to a given ordering
We get two arrays:
ordering = ["one", "two", "three"]
and
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Good algorithm to find all pairs of strings between 2 sets so that all words from the 1st string are all contained in the 2nd string?
I have 2 large sets of strings (actually they are product names). "Large" means few millions of strings.
Example:
Set 1:
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Why does it take more than the original alphabet to generate sets of strings?
I am reading Computability by Nigel Cutland and I'm stumped on a brief statement about generating particular sets of strings that is not explained or given any examples.
First, here are some ...
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Given a list of strings, find every pair $(x,y)$ where $x$ is a substring of $y$. Possible to do better than $O(n^2)$?
Consider the following algorithmic problem: Given a list of strings $L = [s_1, s_2, \dots, s_n]$, we want to know all pairs $(x,y)$ where $x$ is a substring of $y$. We can assume all strings are of ...
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Spliting strings into groups of similar strings
I would like to group a list of strings into groups of strings differing by max 1 character:
For instance, given:
[John, Alibaba, Johny, Alidaba, Mary]
I would ...
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How can you compute the expected edit distance in $O(2^{3n/2})$ time?
In a coding challenge an answer claimed to be able to compute the expected edit distance between two binary strings of length $n$ in $O(2^{3n/2})$ edit distance calculations by dynamic programming. A ...
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How many operations of flipping all brackets on a substring of a string of brackets are needed to make the string 'correct'?
I call a string of brackets 'correct' if every opening bracket has a corresponding closing bracket somewhere after it and every closing bracket has a corresponding opening bracket somewhere before it. ...
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Can I solve my decision problem in $O(n)$ time?
My algorithm solves a custom string problem but it loops twice making it $O(n^2)$ time. I'm asking here as I'm a beginner in self-learning algorithms.
Decision Problem: Given an input list $A$, can ...
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Lexicographically minimal string rotation
In this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicographically_minimal_string_rotation there is the Booth's Algorithm for lexicographically minimal string rotation but there is no proof. I can't access ...
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Finding fewest strings that cover $\Sigma^n$ up to $R$ edit operations
Let $\Sigma$ be the alphabet, $0<R<n$ be an integer and let $\Sigma^n$ denote the set of all strings of length $n$ over the alphabet. The task is to find the minimum $m$ such that there exist ...
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Primitive word and cyclic rotations
Definition. A word $w \in \Sigma^*$ is primitive if $w=u^n \rightarrow n=1$.
Is it true that a word is primitive if and only if its all cyclic rotations are dstinct?
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How to construct a DFA which accepts all the strings endig with aa and no two consecutive b (bb)
I have to construct a DFA which ends with aa and does not contain any pair of b-s. A = {a,b}, {aa,baa,aaa,abaa,babaa,...}. I know how to construct them as separate DFAs but not together merged.
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Find number of awesome substring of a given binary string
A binary string is given to us and we need to find number of awesome substring of that string .Definition of awesome string : A string is awesome if its length is divisible by number of 1's in it.
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Does this kind of āconversation treeā has a specific name?
Does a Tree of infinite width and depth where each node represents a syntactically valid response to (a node of) a previous response to which it's connected via an edge has a specific name?
(It seems ...
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Efficiently extendable hash function?
I'm wondering whether there exist any good hash functions with the following property: Assume that $x$ is some string over some alphabet $A$, then given $H(x)$ we can compute in $O(1)$ time both $H(ax)...
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Inverse of Burrows-Wheeler
We can invert the Burrows-Wheeler with this method:
The inverse can be understood this way. Take the final table in the
BWT algorithm, and erase all but the last column. Given only this
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Does there exist a subset of substrings for reconstructing another string?
I am looking for a high performance algorithm to check whether I can reconstruct a given string using a given set of substrings. More details:
Let's say our strings are over the alphabet $\Sigma$.
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Find the closest string to a fixed set of strings
I want to find the closest string to a fixed set of strings. The strings are all equal in length, and the number of strings in the set is relatively small (compared to all the possible strings of the ...
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Find the 'best' longest common subsequence
I am writing a program that computes and displays diffs. I implemented Meyers algorithm that computes the LCS between 2 subsequences (seq1 and ...
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Evaluating predicate on binary strings
Consider two unknown binary strings $$X = x_{1} x_{2} \dots x_{n^{2}}, \quad Y = y_{1} y_{2} \dots y_{n^{2}}, \quad x_{i}, y_{i} \in \{0, 1\} .$$ We may request a string $Z = z_{1} z_{2} \dots z_{n^{2}...
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How many “compressible” strings are there?
Let's say that a string of length $N$ is "compressible" iff its Kolmogorov complexity is less than $N$. To keep it simple, we can assume binary strings for this.
It is easy to see that almost all ...
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Little Endian and Decimal numbers
I understand that, for some hex string like 0xF0B0D0, the reverse byte order is 0xD0B0F0 since two hexademical digits represent ...
