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I want to format an address in an html template using the following dynamic data.
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<br>{{street_addre...
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I’m new to elixir and I want to know how to format a string with unicode args
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IO.puts(:io_lib.format("hello ~10s ~n", ["👻"]))
resu...
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I’m going through Tate and DeBenedetto’s Programming Phoenix LiveView and observed the code below.
defp assign_chart_svg(%{assigns: %{...
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I’d like to be able to attach attributes to ranges within a string. Since I’m writing prototypes/spikes in Elixir for an eventual MacOS a...
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Hey, does anybody know if it is possible to escape escape characters like \r or \u2003? Given a string containing such characters, I’d li...
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I have a pretty basic question, what is the time complexity of code points?
In other languages ive used, a lookup table is employed...
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I am trying to process a text file like a kind of plain text guitar tab with etc. a bit like the Ultimate Guitar Tab site.
Each line wil...
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I want to wrap each string from the list of strings in double quotes - so given a string:
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When I define successive functions that return a string I get the error:
unexpected reserved word: end
HINT: it looks like the "end...
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sth like string — Common string operations — Python 3.10.4 documentation?
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I am trying to process a text file like a kind of plain text guitar tab with etc. a bit like the Ultimate Guitar Tab site.
Each line wil...
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Hi,
I have a pretty basic question, what is the time complexity of code points?
In other languages ive used, a lookup table is employed...
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I’d like to be able to attach attributes to ranges within a string. Since I’m writing prototypes/spikes in Elixir for an eventual MacOS a...
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code
IO.puts(:io_lib.format("hello ~10s ~n", ["👻"]))
resu...
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I’m going through Tate and DeBenedetto’s Programming Phoenix LiveView and observed the code below.
defp assign_chart_svg(%{assigns: %{...
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Hi!
I want to format an address in an html template using the following dynamic data.
<br>Attn: {{name}}
<br>{{street_addre...
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the string I ne...
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Sometimes I want to check if the input into a function is not a blank string.
My first approach:
defmodule Example do
def do_stuff(s...
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Iet say in C like languages usuall you ...
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I want to trim “s” from this sentence.
"aassddaa"
Then, I use String.trim/2 to trim “s”.
iex(1)> a = "aassddaa"
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