Questions on the manipulation of String objects in Mathematica, and the functions used for these manipulations.
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Why is StringExpression faster than RegularExpression?
Edit: as noted by Albert Retey the performance difference is only seen when sub expression extraction is performed. If this test is used below the timings are similar:
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How to convert a notebook cell to a string retaining all formatting, colorization of identifiers etc?
I have an opened Mathematica notebook containing several cells. Suppose, I am interested in one of them -- it may contain a complete or incomplete expression (e.g. with syntax errors, highlighted ...
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Unicode beyond Basic Multilingual Plane
String manipulation takes a dive when characters beyond \:FFFF are used e.g. Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols. The characters display fine but doing string ...
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Split one string about a fixed width with `SyntaxQ=True`
How to split one string about a fixed width, the string may come from the input or output cell of Notebook.
sample string
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How to look up the dictionary for some bad-form phrase
sample1 was obtained from one of my vocabulary books.
I typed 734 phrases. And they were filtered by WordData. ...
