Problem 44380. ASCII Birthday Cake

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Given an age and a name, give draw an ASCII birthday cake. For example, given the name "CODY" and the age 5, return a string with the following (no trailing spaces)

   6 6 6 6 6
   | | | | |
 __|_|_|_|_|__
{             }
{             }
{    CODY     }
{             }
{_____________}

This uses the string datatype, not a char array.

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Elmar Zander on 17 Oct 2017

Maybe it comes from the new matlab strings introduced only recently in R2017a. You can notices them by the 'string' constructor and the double quotes in the test cases.
String concatenation and some other things seem to work differently for them, than for the good old char arrays.

Yona on 18 Oct 2017

maybe you right. the question is how i can remove it after or during the construction?

Yona on 18 Oct 2017

I found the difference and add a patch (cost me 50 in length)

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