Questions tagged [string]
A string is a finite sequence of symbols, commonly used for text, though sometimes for arbitrary data.
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What is the difference between String and string in C#?
What are the differences between these two, and which one should I use?
string s = "Hello world!";
String s = "Hello world!";
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How to check whether a string contains a substring in JavaScript?
Usually I would expect a String.contains() method, but there doesn't seem to be one.
What is a reasonable way to check for this?
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How do I replace all occurrences of a string in JavaScript?
Given a string:
string = "Test abc test test abc test test test abc test test abc";
This seems to only remove the first occurrence of abc in the string above:
string = string.replace('abc', ...
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How do I make the first letter of a string uppercase in JavaScript?
How do I make the first character of a string uppercase if it's a letter, but not change the case of any of the other letters?
For example:
"this is a test" �� "This is a test"
&...
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How do I read / convert an InputStream into a String in Java?
If you have a java.io.InputStream object, how should you process that object and produce a String?
Suppose I have an InputStream that contains text data, and I want to convert it to a String, so for ...
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Why is char[] preferred over String for passwords?
In Swing, the password field has a getPassword() (returns char[]) method instead of the usual getText() (returns String) method. Similarly, I have come across a suggestion not to use String to handle ...
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Convert bytes to a string in Python 3
I captured the standard output of an external program into a bytes object:
>>> from subprocess import *
>>> stdout = Popen(['ls', '-l'], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0]
>>> ...
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Does Python have a string 'contains' substring method?
I'm looking for a string.contains or string.indexof method in Python.
I want to do:
if not somestring.contains("blah"):
continue
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How to check if a string contains a substring in Bash
I have a string in Bash:
string="My string"
How can I test if it contains another string?
if [ $string ?? 'foo' ]; then
echo "It's there!"
fi
Where ?? is my unknown operator. ...
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How do I convert a String to an int in Java?
How can I convert a String value to an int type?
"1234" → 1234
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How to assign a multiline string literal to a variable?
How do I convert this Ruby code with a multiline string into JavaScript?
text = <<"HERE"
This
Is
A
Multiline
String
HERE
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Case insensitive 'Contains(string)'
Is there a way to make the following return true?
string title = "ASTRINGTOTEST";
title.Contains("string");
There doesn't seem to be an overload that allows me to set the case ...
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How do I iterate over the words of a string?
How do I iterate over the words of a string composed of words separated by whitespace?
Note that I'm not interested in C string functions or that kind of character manipulation/access. I prefer ...
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Generate random string/characters in JavaScript
I want a 5 character string composed of characters picked randomly from the set [a-zA-Z0-9].
What's the best way to do this with JavaScript?
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Extract filename and extension in Bash
I want to get the filename (without extension) and the extension separately.
The best solution I found so far is:
NAME=`echo "$FILE" | cut -d'.' -f1`
EXTENSION=`echo "$FILE" | cut -d'.' -f2`
This ...
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