Questions tagged [isalpha]
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Python: Only keep lines with more than 3 words if characters in words are alphabetic
the following code 1 allows me to only keep lines with more than 3 words. In some lines of my large text document, there are lines with non-alphabetic characters and 3 words or less which I would like to exclude as well from my cleaned list of…
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Challenges with guessing game of integers
I am brand new to programming and I'm building a guessing game for fun as a first program. I've already figured out the following:
How to set a specific number for them to guess between 1-50 (for example)
What happens when they guess outside the…
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Trouble implementing isalpha
I've been working on the readability problem in CS50. The first step is to create a way to count only the alphabetical characters. It suggests to use the isalpha function, but doesn't really include directions on how to implement it.
Below is my…
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Why does isalpha() counter program gives wrong output? C
I'm trying to run a simple program that reads a file and returns the context and the number of alphabetical characters. Im getting a wrong output.
#include
#include
int main()
{
FILE *f;
char path[100],c;
int sum;
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isalpha() function in C don't read
I'm trying to write the substitution cipher but, a part of it, in particular the one where it sees me if the inserted alphabet is composed only of text characters "a ... z", doesn't work me. Could you tell me why the isalpha function…
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Replacing characters in a text using isalpha()
I want to remove the apostrophes from a text file given a certain condition, they aren't surrounded by letters. I've been able to figure out how to get the sum of apostrophes surrounded by letters with the following, using isalpha()…
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Python: Using .isalpha() to count specific words/characters in a word count
I've created a function which can count specific words or characters in a text file.
But I want to create a condition where the function only counts a character if it is surrounded by letters. For example in the text file.
'This test is an example,…
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How to use properly isalpha function regarding array of strings?
I am trying to use isaplha() function in order to check every character of each string to be sure if it is alphabetic. But for some reason it does not work. Program always goes into printf() function despite of an argument of an if statement.
It…
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isalpha()? or others... debug assertion failed, circlemud game
Please excuse me for using the translator.
I'm a beginner in programming.
The decades-old circlemud is being modified. Although it is already localized and can be implemented in VC6.0 without any problems, there is a problem in the entry of Korean…
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Don't understand this AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'isalpha'
Refer the following code
# import
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import string
# create data frame
data = {'Name': ['Jas,on', 'Mo.lly', 'Ti;na', 'J:ake', '!Amy', "Myself"]}
df = pd.DataFrame(data, columns = ['Name'])
df
# get cleanName -…
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Making a small calculator program, need to check if user input is a letter
I've been trying to make a small calculator program to test my own skills, due to me being pretty green when talking about coding. Anyways I'm trying to make a function with a loop that will ask for a number until a number is inputted and reject…
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Functionality of isalpha function
The Python program below checks if there exists an alphabet in the string and if there is no alphabet it translates it to english using a custom API and writes it to a file. Since isalpha() checks for -…
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A single palindrome recursive function
Is it possible to turn this program I have written into a single recursion function that ignores case differences, white spaces, and non-English letters? For example, the program must be able to return "True" to the following string, ignoring the…
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Palindrome comparing punctuation only at the end, using pointers
This is a palindrome checker I have made in c. It works for all inputs, whether they have punctuation or not EXCEPT when the last item is a punctuation. In this case it does not skip it and compares and then says that it is not a palindrome when in…
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Iteratively testing for an input that is numeric in Python3
I have to test if user's input is numeric. Otherwise, I need to ask for input again. It sounds simple, right? But, check the following function
# Request number from user
def request_number():
number = input("Please, enter the card number you…
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