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DeleteCases not working as expected
I am trying to reproduce the example of Data Cleaning from here.
I had to make a slight change in input 13 to
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What is the point of StringForm?
I never really understood the point of StringForm returning a StringForm rather than a String...
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Unexpected behaviour when pattern matching with Longest
I came across some unexpected behaviour today when using the Longest function when trying to do some pattern matching.
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Why was StringRepeat designed so that StringRepeat[s, 0] throws an error?
Update
In version 13.2 StringRepeat[" ", 0] produces an empty string.
I'm wondering about the rationale behind the design decision that leads to the ...
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Strange answer from StringReplace
I have a list of strings and I would check if there is an empty string element, that's "", because I need to replace it with a "0". I try the following
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Specifying string patterns in DeleteCases
It seems that DeleteCases is not compatible with string patterns, at least directly (see, for example, this question). Is this true? If so, why is this the case? ...
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