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Strings & Text medium

Longest common prefix

Find the longest common prefix among a list of strings.

Strings & Text easy

Find all indexes of a substring

Write a function that returns a list of all starting indexes where a substring appears in a string, including overlapping occurrences.

substring string searching

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

Strings & Text easy

Parse bullet list

Parse a markdown-style bullet list and return the list of item texts, stripping bullet markers and trimming surrounding whitespace.

parsing strings markdown

Strings & Text easy

Parse numbered list

Take a string containing a numbered list and return a clean list of the item texts.

string parsing strip split

Strings & Text easy

Parse coordinate pairs

Parse a string of coordinate pairs into a list of coordinate lists.

parsing strings split

Strings & Text easy

Parse range notation

Parse a comma-separated list of ranges and individual numbers, expanding each range into its full sequence.

strings parsing ranges

Strings & Text easy

Find repeated words

Return a lowercase list of unique words that appear more than once across a given text, ignoring case.

string parsing word-count

Strings & Text easy

Crawler Log Folder

Given a list of folder navigation operations, compute the minimum steps required to return to the main folder.

strings stack simulation

Strings & Text easy

Parse Hex Dump

Write a function that parses a hex dump string into a list of integers.

hex parsing bytes

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Strings & Text — Python coding challenges

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