Count words in a sentence
Implement a function to count words in a sentence, ignoring extra whitespace and handling empty strings.
Center a string in a width
Write a function that centers a string within a specified width by adding spaces on both sides.
Caesar Cipher Shift
Write a function that shifts letters in a string by a given amount, preserving case and ignoring non-letters.
Reverse Words in a Sentence
Reverse the order of words in a sentence while preserving single spaces between words.
Count consonants
Write a function that counts the number of consonant letters in a string.
Is pangram?
Implement is_pangram(s) to return True if the string contains every letter from 'a' to 'z' at least once, ignoring case and non-alphabetic characters.
Remove Duplicates from String
Given a string, return a new string with each character that repeats consecutively reduced to a single occurrence.
Longest Word Finder
Write a function that extracts alphabetic words from a string and returns the longest one, with ties broken by earliest position.
Abbreviate Name
Create a function that takes a full name and returns an abbreviated version with initials and the last name.
Mask email address
Given an email address, return a masked version that hides everything but the first and last character of the local part and the domain.
Extract digits from string
Write a function that extracts all digit characters from a given string, preserving their original order.
Replace Spaces with Dashes
Write a function that replaces every space in a string with a dash.
Capitalize First Letter
Write a function that capitalizes the first letter of each word in a string.
Snake case converter
Implement a function that converts a string to snake_case according to given rules.
Camel Case Converter
Write a function that converts a space-separated phrase into lower camelCase.
Kebab Case Converter
Implement a function that converts any string to kebab-case, handling spaces, underscores, camelCase, and punctuation.
Count Syllables (Simple)
Count syllables in a word by counting groups of consecutive vowels (a, e, i, o, u).
Is isogram?
Write a function that checks whether a given word is an isogram, ignoring letter case and only considering alphabetic characters.
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.
Compress Consecutive Chars
Write a function that compresses a string by replacing runs of identical characters with the character followed by the count.
Expand compressed string
Implement a function that expands run-length encoded strings (e.g., 'a3b2' → 'aaabb').
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.
Count Substrings
Implement a function that counts non-overlapping occurrences of a substring in a given string.
Sort characters in string
Write a function that sorts the characters in a string and returns the sorted string.
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