Questions tagged [letters]
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Remove letters from a cell leaving numbers only
I am trying to remove all letters from a cell and leave the numbers remaining.
I have found bits of code and other questions on here but none are making much sense to me.
I have in cell E23 "as12df34" and want the value of Cell E23 to read "12…
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Random letter sequencing with a pattern
I'd like get random letters together to generate weird words with a specified pattern like cvvcv (consonants and vowels). No consonant variations like th- sh- ch- etc needed.
The problem is, when I attempt to do one, I have to specify the length of…
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How to present letter as a bitmap?
I know how to present number as a bitmap, for instance:
17 = 010001
11 = 001011
This is about numbers, but what about letters? Is there a way to do this? For example:
w = ??
[ = ??
Bartłomiej Semańczyk
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extract letters by counting them
I am looking for extracting some of the string by counting the letter from the beginning in csh shell. For example,
set a = "hello 911 is not 91 only"
I want to extract letter from position 8 to 10 which is 911, similar to a(8:10). Similarly, 20 to…
user3288812
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Batch file to allow encrypt and decrypt capital letters for this code
i want this code to be able to encrypt the capital letters because when i add capital letters it will be encrypted like the small letters
this is the code
encryption code
http://pastebin.com/Xy2gCmtQ
decryption code
http://pastebin.com/rZtrwaJD
user3752270
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Alphabetical value
Return the number of times that the string "code" appears anywhere in the given string,
except we'll accept any letter for the 'd', so "cope" and "cooe" count.
Is there a value that I can input that means any letter or do I have to make a case…
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Word Wheel Game - randomising letters with Javascript
Thanks Adrian for sharing some code with me. Unfortunately I was unable to integrate it into my project (newbie!) but it did put me on the correct course. After a bit of a rethink, I included a function to shuffle the letters to rather a nice…
Matt
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Random letters in C++ struct
So I have a structure I'm making, which I can also make a class, but when I try to get the properties of them...it gives me random letters. Like completely random. I'm seeing stuff like "(▌ ¶∞♥!¶↑♥!¶≤ ≈ ¶⌠ ☻!¶≈ Ç┌ ¶√ Φ`◄¶ ◄▬¶Ç┌…
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Matching letters in 2 strings with haskell
I just started with haskell and im wondering if there is a easy way to match the letters between 2 string and output them.
like:
iced and liked will return i,e,d
Thank you!
Sevo
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php register script same nicknames
I would like to know how to check if login exist in my database. At this moment I am using mysql_num_rows() ,but two hours ago I realised that this is not safe for my website because if I Sign up with nickname: Paul and my friend sign up with…
user1607019
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capital letters in firt letter
In python, I want a program that turn the first leter on a word capital letter.
For exemple:
turn "a red apple is sweeter than a green apple" in "A Red Apple is Sweeter Than A Green Apple"
How can I do?
I've tried this:
d = input('insert a…
Pedro Amorim
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How I can count a a non-numeric value in R?
I have a vector of letters:
v <- c("M", "W", "M", "M", "M", "W", "M", "X", "X", "M", "X", "M",
"M", "M", "W")
How can I have R count the letters in the vector?
Like:
M 9
W 3
X 3
dolu28
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sorting letters in a string with double pointer
I'm stuck with sorting letters in a string. It must be sorted in alphabetical order using double pointers.
#define SIZE 21 //defined index of the array
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
// an array with 21 strings
char * string[SIZE] =…
arsy
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Is it possible to ignore certain characters in "scanf_s"?
So here is my code. Its a school assignment. I had to make a program to calculate the square root of a number using a method the Babylonians developed etc, that's not the important part. What I was wondering is if it's possible to ignore letters in…
Adnan Hossain
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capitalize first letter in file
I'm trying to capitalize first letter. The chars are read from text file. Unfortunately, I can't. I read an idea it says add two boolean variables, which could be of type int: one variable will hold 1 when the current character is part of a word,…
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