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Strings & Text easy

Title case converter

Return the string with each word capitalised.

Strings & Text easy

Longest word in a sentence

Write a function that returns the longest word from a sentence, with first-occurrence tie-breaking.

strings parsing split

Strings & Text easy

Initials from a Full Name

Return the uppercase initials of each word in a given full name.

strings splitting uppercase

Strings & Text easy

Count words in a sentence

Implement a function to count words in a sentence, ignoring extra whitespace and handling empty strings.

strings split counting

Strings & Text easy

Reverse Words in a Sentence

Reverse the order of words in a sentence while preserving single spaces between words.

strings split reverse

Strings & Text easy

Abbreviate Name

Create a function that takes a full name and returns an abbreviated version with initials and the last name.

strings formatting split

Strings & Text easy

Parse Log Line

Write a function that parses a log line and returns a dictionary with timestamp, level, and message.

string-parsing split strip

Strings & Text easy

Split on camelCase

Given a camelCase string, split it into words at uppercase letters and return them as lowercase words.

strings parsing camelcase

Strings & Text easy

Normalize Whitespace

Write a function that normalizes any whitespace in a string to single spaces and trims the ends.

strings whitespace split-join

Strings & Text easy

Parse URL components

Write parse_url that splits a URL into its standard components with defaults for missing parts.

url-parsing strings parsing

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

Compare Version Strings

Given two version strings, compare them numerically by splitting on dots and ignoring leading zeros.

strings parsing comparison

Strings & Text easy

Parse path segments

Implement a function that parses a path string into clean segments, ignoring slashes, empty parts, and dot segments.

strings parsing split

Strings & Text easy

Parse coordinate pairs

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

parsing strings split

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Strings & Text — Python coding challenges

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