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Popular programming languages provide methods or functions which locate a substring in a given string. In C it is the function strstr , the C++ class std::string has the method find , Python's string has methods pos and index , and so on, so forth. All these APIs were designed for one-shot searches . During past…
Recently, I came across a function that checks whether an array is sorted, i.e. if there is no element which would be greater than its successor. Below is a sample implementation:
Removing spaces from a string is a common task in text processing. Instead of removing single character we often want to remove all the white space characters or the punctuation characters etc.