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Strings & Text easy

Extract digits from string

Write a function that extracts all digit characters from a given string, preserving their original order.

strings digits parsing
+6 pts 8m
Strings & Text easy

Replace Spaces with Dashes

Write a function that replaces every space in a string with a dash.

strings replace manipulation
+5 pts 5m
Strings & Text easy

Capitalize First Letter

Write a function that capitalizes the first letter of each word in a string.

string capitalization title
+8 pts 10m
Strings & Text easy

Snake case converter

Implement a function that converts a string to snake_case according to given rules.

strings snake_case formatting
+10 pts 15m
Strings & Text easy

Camel Case Converter

Write a function that converts a space-separated phrase into lower camelCase.

strings casing manipulation
+8 pts 10m
Strings & Text easy

Kebab Case Converter

Implement a function that converts any string to kebab-case, handling spaces, underscores, camelCase, and punctuation.

strings case-conversion parsing
+8 pts 15m
Strings & Text easy

Count Syllables (Simple)

Count syllables in a word by counting groups of consecutive vowels (a, e, i, o, u).

strings vowels counting
+10 pts 15m
Strings & Text easy

Is isogram?

Write a function that checks whether a given word is an isogram, ignoring letter case and only considering alphabetic characters.

strings case-insensitive set
+8 pts 12m
Strings & Text easy

Rotate String Right

Implement a function that rotates a given string to the right by a specified number of positions, handling shifts larger than the string length.

strings rotation slicing
+8 pts 10m
Strings & Text easy

Compress Consecutive Chars

Write a function that compresses a string by replacing runs of identical characters with the character followed by the count.

string run-length compression
+8 pts 12m
Strings & Text easy

Expand compressed string

Implement a function that expands run-length encoded strings (e.g., 'a3b2' → 'aaabb').

strings parsing run-length-encoding
+10 pts 15m
Strings & Text easy

Find substring index

Implement a function that returns the starting index of the first occurrence of a substring using only basic string indexing and slicing.

string search index
+10 pts 15m
Strings & Text easy

Count Substrings

Implement a function that counts non-overlapping occurrences of a substring in a given string.

strings counting substrings
+10 pts 15m
Strings & Text easy

Sort characters in string

Write a function that sorts the characters in a string and returns the sorted string.

sorting string character
+8 pts 10m
Strings & Text easy

Most Common Character

Return the character that appears most frequently in a string, breaking ties by earliest occurrence.

strings counting dictionary
+10 pts 15m
Strings & Text easy

Roman to Integer

Convert a valid Roman numeral string to an integer using standard rules.

roman string integer
+10 pts 15m
Strings & Text easy

Isomorphic Strings Check

Given two strings, check if they are isomorphic by verifying a one-to-one character mapping.

strings mapping hash-map
+10 pts 15m
Strings & Text medium

Find all anagrams

Return all starting indices where any anagram of a given word appears as a substring.

anagrams strings sliding-window
+20 pts 20m
Strings & Text medium

Substring Anagrams

Return all start indices in a string where a substring of length k is an anagram of a pattern string.

strings sliding-window hash-map
+20 pts 25m
Strings & Text medium

Longest Palindrome Substring

Given a string s, return the longest substring that reads the same forwards and backwards.

strings palindrome substring
+20 pts 25m
Strings & Text easy

Index of First Occurrence

Implement a function that finds the starting index of a substring within a string, returning -1 when absent.

strings search index
+8 pts 12m
Strings & Text easy

Safe Command Executor

Implement emulate_run that simulates running a command list and returns output and exit code.

string-parsing simulation lists
+8 pts 10m
Strings & Text easy

Error message formatter

Write a function that constructs a formatted error message from a code, an optional context, and a fallback message.

formatting strings function
+10 pts 15m
Strings & Text easy

Stack Trace Sanitizer

Implement a function that rewrites traceback file paths to basenames only.

strings regex parsing
+8 pts 12m

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