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Find state names that start with the letter N
Given a list of US states, remove all the states that start with the letter N. If s1 = 'Alabama Montana Nebraska Vermont Ne...

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Clean the List of Names
Given a list of names in a cell array, remove any duplications that result from different capitalizations of the same string. So...

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Find the palindrome
Given the string a, find the longest palindromic sub-string b. So when a = 'xkayakyy'; you should return b = 'kayak';

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Extract leading non-zero digit
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law Benford's Law> states that the distribution of leading digits is not random. This...

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Pascal's Triangle
Given an integer n >= 0, generate the length n+1 row vector representing the n-th row of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascals_t...

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Quote Doubler
Given a string s1, find all occurrences of the single quote character and replace them with two occurrences of the single quote ...

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Most nonzero elements in row
Given the matrix a, return the index r of the row with the most nonzero elements. Assume there will always be exactly one row th...

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Remove all the words that end with "ain"
Given the string s1, return the string s2 with the target characters removed. For example, given s1 = 'the main event' your ...

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Counting Money
Add the numbers given in the cell array of strings. The strings represent amounts of money using this notation: $99,999.99. E...

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Counting in Finnish
Sort a vector of single digit whole numbers alphabetically by their name, in Finnish. See the Wikipedia page for <http://en.wik...

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Which values occur exactly three times?
Return a list of all values (sorted smallest to largest) that appear exactly three times in the input vector x. So if x = [1 2...

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Find state names that end with the letter A
Given a list of US states, remove all the states that end with the letter A. Example: Input s1 = 'Alabama Montana Nebras...

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Find mistyped words in text (mixed-up letters)
Mistyped words are a regular occurrence in emails, texts, status updates, and the like. Many times, people send or post a second...

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Calculate a modified Levenshtein distance between two strings
Inspired by the Cody problem found <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/93-calculate-the-levenshtein-distance-b...

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QWERTY Shift Code Decoder
Decode a string encoded using the QWERTY shift code. QWERTY shift code is where the message was touch typed but with an offse...

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QWERTY Shift Encoder
Encode a string using the QWERTY shift code. This code is where you touch type but are offset by one character to the right. ...

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Use of regexp
Given a string, containing several sentences, such as: 'I played piano. John played football. Anita went home. Are you safe?...

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Formatting currency numbers
Given a number, format it properly for textual display using the notation $xxx,xxx,xxx.xx. Assume that no more than two digits ...

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String substitution, sub problem to cryptoMath
This is a sub problem related to this problem: <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/621-cryptomath-addition>...

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Compress strings (not springs)
Please remove excess space, limit one space between others, and no space before punctuation marks. * For example, 'Trendy , ...

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Find matching parenthesis
One of the most indispensable things about a great text editor for programming is the ability to quickly jump between matching p...

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Find matching string from a list of strings
Write a function that returns a string that is a unique match (if it exists) of the string |inStr| from a list of strings |strLi...

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letter yes yes & letter no no
Split a string into two strings, wherein the first string has all alphabetic letters and the second string has all the remaining...

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Convert String to Morse Code
Convert a given string to international <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code Morse Code> * Strings will only have [A-z], ...

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Decimal Comparison
*Background* A utility of particular interest to Cody and other MATLAB ventures is comparing the equality of two numbers. In ...

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Find Rotated Substring
Given a string s1, find if a rotated version of s1 is present in a second string s2. For example, rotated version of some str...

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Pig Latin to English Translator
Pig latin is a faux-language based off of English. The rules are as follows (excerpted from the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi...

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Calculate the Hamming distance between two strings
Inspired by a similar Cody problem found <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/93-calculate-the-levenshtein-dist...

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Reverse the Words (not letters) of a String
*Description* Change the words of a string such that the words appear in reverse order. You may assume that the string is a n...

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Space Saver
Remove all characters that are below a space in ASCII value.

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