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Questions on the manipulation of String objects in Mathematica, and the functions used for these manipulations.

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Mma 10.2 `Alphabet` and `LanguageData` give different and both erroneous list of letters

Bug introduced in 10.2 and fixed in 10.3 The new function Alphabet introduced in Mathematica 10.2 gives the wrong list of letters for the Spanish language in my system (Windows 7 64 bits). Alphabe …
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Importing Text file with Null Character column separation

I have a text file (ANSI encoding) with two columns of real numbers separated, unfortunately, by a "Null Character" ("\.00"). How can I import this data easily? The problem: Take[Import["17Dec15450 …
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How to parse information contained in a file name

I have a set of files containing my data, and the file-names contain relevant information that I would like to extract. What I have is: SetDirectory["c:\\data"] files = FileNames["201406*.dpt"]; Take …
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Get CountryData from 3 letter abbreviation of country name

On browsing ATP rankings I stumbled on a simple problem Union@Flatten[ StringCases[ Import["http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/rankings/singles", {"HTML", "ImageLinks"}] , {__ ~~ "/flags/" ~~ countr …
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ROT13 and upside-down text (flip text)

How can we transform text in order to achieve ROT13 and flip text using Wolfram Mathematica? 1. ROT13 2. Flip text
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Understanding `Paste` and how to get a string from the Clipboard to use with `ImportString`

Trying to work on this question I got distracted by my first naive attempt of copying the data and then typing dat = ImportString[Paste[], "Table"] ImportString::string: First argument Null is n …
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