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Daily Challenge #1 - String Peeler

dev.to staff on June 28, 2019

Hey, everyone. We've decided to host a daily challenge series. We'll have a variety of challenges, ranging in difficulty and complexity. If you cho...
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Alvaro Montoro • Edited

CSS

Just add the class removeFirstAndLastLetter to a tag, and see the first and last letter "removed" from the text 😋

.removeFirstAndLastLetter {
  background: #fff;
  font-family: monospace;
  white-space: nowrap;
  position: relative;
  display: inline-block;
}

.removeFirstAndLastLetter::before,
.removeFirstAndLastLetter::after {
  content: "\00a0";
  background: #fff;
  top: 0;
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
  height: 100%;
  width: auto;
}

.removeFirstAndLastLetter::after {
  right: 0;
}
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And as an extra, it can be stylized and animated, so you can see the letters fade out:

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Ben Halpern

Ha! This one is great.

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Alvaro Montoro

Thanks :)

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Ryland G • Edited

JavaScript

(someString) => someString.length > 2 ? someString.slice(1, -1) : undefined;
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Python

someString[1:-1] if len(someString) > 2 else None
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C++

someString.size() > 2 ? someString.substr(1, someString.size() - 1) : null;
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C

int trimString(char someString[])
{
  if (strlen(someString) > 2) {
    char *copy = malloc((strlen(someString) - 2) * sizeof(char));
    memmove (copy, someString + 1, strlen(someString) - 2);
    printf("%s", copy);
    free(copy);
    return 0;
  }
  return 1;
}
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Rafael Acioly

Let people do something 😂

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Jerome De Leon

HAHAHA damn. Let me finish my code LOL.

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Clay Murray • Edited

Let's just go wild

(someString) => {
   switch(someString.length){
   case 0:
   case 1:
   case 2:
       return null;
   default:
       const arr = someString.split("")
       arr.pop();
       arr.reverse();
       arr.pop();
       arr.reverse();
       return arr.join("")
   }
}

Why not?

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Ibrahim Abdullahi Aliyu

This is indeed wild

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Alvaro Montoro • Edited

In JavaScript it could be 24 bytes:

f=s=>s.slice(1,-1)||null
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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Edited

I am surprised no one wrote test code. Sometimes in interviews with challenge this simple and you have access to run ruby they are expecting to see test code. Check out my ruby test code tutorials buds.

I notice lots of people are raising an error instead of ignoring or returning null so they have failed the challenge's instructions.

require "test/unit"

# remove the first and last letter of a string
# if there is less than 2 characters return zero.
def quartered value
  raise ArgumentError, 'Argument is not a string' unless value.is_a? String
  return value unless value.size > 2
  value[0] = ''
  value.chop
end


class QaurteredTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  def test_quartered
    assert_equal 'orl', quartered('world'), "quartered('world') should return a string called 'orl'"
  end

  def test_quartered_ignore
    assert_equal 'hi', quartered('hi'), "quartered('hi') should return 'hi'"
  end

  def test_quartered_invalid
    assert_raise_message('Argument is not a string', "quartered(2) should raise exception") do
      quartered(2)
    end
  end
end
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Ben Halpern • Edited

Ruby


def remove_first_and_last(string)
  raise "Invalid" if string.size < 3
  string[1..string.size-2]
end
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MetaDave 🇪🇺

I think you can get away with string[1..-2] there, Ben.

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Ceban Dumitru • Edited

BASH

if [[ ${#1} > 2 ]]; then
    echo "${1:1:$(($#1-2))}";
else echo "not validated";
fi
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orenovadia • Edited

I was surprised to find that -1 to work as well:

V=abcde
echo "${V:1:-1}"
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Exequiel Beker

I tried to not use any str function.

char* trimFirstAndLastLetters(char* str)
{
    int index = 1;

    if(str[0] == '\0' || str[1] == '\0') {
        return NULL;
    }

    while(*(str + index) != '\0') {
        *(str + (index - 1)) = *(str + index);
        index++;
    }

    /* Remove last one */
    *(str + (index - 2)) = '\0';
    return str;
}
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Corey Alexander • Edited

Rust

fn remove_first_and_last(string: &str) -> &str {
    remove_first_and_last_n_chars(&string, 1)
}

fn remove_first_and_last_n_chars(string: &str, chars_to_remove: usize) -> &str {
    if string.len() <= (2 * chars_to_remove) {
        panic!("Input string too short")
    }
    let start = chars_to_remove;
    let end = string.len() - 1 - chars_to_remove;

    &string[start..end]
} 

fn main() {
    println!("Ans: {}", remove_first_and_last("Hello, world!"));
    println!("Ans: {}", remove_first_and_last_n_chars("Hello, world!", 2));
    println!("Ans: {}", remove_first_and_last_n_chars("aa", 1));
    println!("Ans: {}", remove_first_and_last_n_chars("aa", 2));
}

View it in the Rust Playground here: play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable...

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Bárbara Perdigão • Edited

I wanted to take my chances with these challenges, but I decided to start from the beginning, so here's my (super) late entry, done in Java :

public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.println("Type the word:");
        String word = scan.nextLine();

        if (word.length() > 2) {
            System.out.printf("Result: %s%n", word.substring(1, word.length() - 1));
        } else {
            System.out.println("Invalid word.");
        }

}
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Martin Himmel

PHP

function remove_string_ends($str) {
    if (strlen($str) <= 2) {
        return null;
    }
    return substr($str, 1, -1);
}
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Claudio Scatoli • Edited

I like that substr trick with the -1, didn't think of that!

How about this one liner?

<?php

function trimThis(string $str)
{
    return (mb_strlen($str) <= 2) ? null : substr($str,1,-1);
}


Use mb_string to support multibyte chars, such as Chinese

Also typehinted the argument, you never know...


This one is even shorter, possible only if the arg is typehinted tho

<?php
function trimThis(string $str) {
    return substr($str,1,-1) ?: null;
}

When the string is shorter than 2, substr returns false;
when the length is 2, substr returns "".

In both cases it's false, the the return is null.


Edit: many typos, I'm on mobile :/

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Andreas Jakof

in C# as Extension-Method

public static string Peel(this string toPeel)
{
    int residual = toPeel.Length -2;
    if (residual < 1) return null;

    return toPeel.SubString(1,residual); //skip the first and take all but the last char
}
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Corey Alexander • Edited

Ruby

Basic

def remove_first_and_last(some_string)
  raise 'Not long enough' unless some_string.length > 2

  some_string[1..-2]
end

Extra

def remove_first_and_last_n_characters(some_string, chars_to_remove: 1)
  raise 'Not long enough' unless some_string.length > (chars_to_remove * 2)

  start_index = chars_to_remove
  end_index = -1 - chars_to_remove
  some_string[start_index..end_index]
end
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Rafi • Edited

solution in SQL (postgres)

\set str 'hello world'

select (
     case
       when (select length(:'str') > 2) 
        then (select substr(:'str', 2, length(:'str') - 2) ) 
else 'invalid string' end );
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Vladislav Guleaev • Edited
function removeChar(str){
 return str.substr(1, str.length - 2)
};
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Praneet Nadkar • Edited

In C#, I would use in built string function Trim()
In my opinion we don't need Substring() here.
Just call :

readedInput.Trim(readedInput[0], readedInput[readedInput.Length - 1])

With 2 length validation:

var trimmed = readedInput.Length > 2 ? readedInput.Trim(readedInput[0], readedInput[readedInput.Length - 1]) : "Invalid" ;
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Andreas Jakof

But what if the input would be "aaajldflbbb"?

When using Trim(char[]), all appearances of the characters given to the method at the beginning and at the end, will be removed, leaving "jldfl".

Removes all leading and trailing occurrences of a set of characters specified in an array from the current String object.

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Michael Lang

Ruby Language Version

With specs

def trim value
  value.to_s[1...-1]
end

require "spec"

describe "#trim" do
  it { expect(trim "Foo Bar").to eq "oo Ba"}
  it { expect(trim "Foo").to eq "o"}
  it { expect(trim "Fo").to eq ""}
  it { expect(trim "F").to eq ""}
  it { expect(trim nil).to be_nil}
  it { expect(trim 777).to eq "7"}
end

output

>> rspec debook_ends.rb
......

Finished in 0.00696 seconds (files took 0.15187 seconds to load)
6 examples, 0 failures
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Kasper Meyer • Edited

Ruby solution

require "minitest/autorun"

class WordTrimmer
  def initialize word
    @word = word
  end

  def trim
    @word.length <= 2 ? @word : @word[1..-2]
  end
end

class WordTrimmerTest < MiniTest::Test
  def test_removing_first_and_last_letter
    assert_equal "aspe", WordTrimmer.new("kasper").trim
  end

  def test_ignoring_two_letter_word
    assert_equal "hi", WordTrimmer.new("hi").trim
  end

  def test_ignoring_one_letter_word
    assert_equal "I", WordTrimmer.new("I").trim
  end
end
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jmc

Clojure:

(defn trim [s]
  (apply str (drop-last (rest s))))
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Tom Ekander

ReasonML

let strip = text =>
  String.(
    length(text) > 2
      ? switch (sub(text, 1, length(text) - 2)) {
        | s => Some(s)
        | exception _ => None
        }
      : None
  );

strip("hello"); // Some("ell")
strip("ab"); // None
strip(""); // None
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Ilyes Chouia • Edited

PHP:


function removeFirstAndLastLetter($text){
    return substr($text, 1, -1);
}
echo removeFirstAndLastLetter("Oh no, I lost two letters");

// Outputs : h no, I lost two letter


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Iago Angelim Costa Cavalcante

Elixir

def remove_primeiro_ultimo_caracteres(string, caracter_removido \\ 1) do
    unless String.length(string) > (caracter_removido * 2) do
      raise 'Tamanho da string é menor que 2'
    end

    inicio = caracter_removido
    fim = -1 - caracter_removido
    String.slice(string, inicio..fim)
  end
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George Offley • Edited

Off the top of the head in Python 🐍🐍🐍🐍

def strip_first_last(string):
     if len(string) > 2:
          return string[1:-1]
     else:
          return None

print(strip_first_last("Hello World"))
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Peter

Solution in Go:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
)

func main() {
    p, err := peel("hello")
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    fmt.Println(p)
}

func peel(s string) (string, error) {
    if len(s) < 3 {
        return "", fmt.Errorf("Input string too short")
    }
    return s[1 : len(s)-1], nil
}

Running example in Go Playground

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Vivek

Swift - 5

var str = "Hello, playground"
func stringPeeler(input: String) -> String? {
    if (input.count <= 2) {
        return nil;
    }

    return String(input.dropLast().dropFirst())
}

print(stringPeeler(input: str)!)
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Aaron Stroud

I see a lot of solutions removing characters without checking to see if they're "letters." Here's my JavaScript solution.

// Remove the first and last _letters_ in a string
function removeFirstLastLetters(str) {
  if (str.length < 3) {
    return null;
  }
  else {
    const regex = /[a-zA-Z]/;

    let firstCharIndex = str.search(regex);

    if (firstCharIndex === -1 ) {
      return null;
    }

    else {
      let lastCharIndex = str.length - str.split("").reverse().join("").search(regex);

      return str.slice(0, firstCharIndex) + str.slice(firstCharIndex + 1, lastCharIndex - 1) + str.slice(lastCharIndex, str.length);
    }
  }
}
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Werner Echezuría

Rust

fn trim_string(string: &str) -> &str {
    if string.len() <= 2 {
        panic!("Input string too short");
    }
    &string[1..string.len() - 1]
}
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kesprit

Swift

func removeFirstAndLastLetter(value: String) -> String? {
    guard value.count > 3 else { return nil }
    var result = value.dropFirst()
    result.popLast()
    return String(result)
}
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Kyle Jones

In Python:

def peel_string(text):
    if len(text) > 2:
        return text[1:(len(text) - 1)]
    return None

print(peel_string("Testing"))
print(peel_string("Hi"))
print(peel_string(""))
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Josh • Edited

Trivial in Ruby:

def double_chop(string)
  return string if string.length <= 2
  string[1..-2]
end

double_chop("hello world") # => "ello worl"
double_chop("book")        # => "oo"
double_chop("OOP")         # => "O"
double_chop("hi")          # => "hi"
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Vinicius Cavagnolli

VB5 / VB6

Function Challenge1(input As String) As String
    If len(input) <= 2 Then
        Challenge1 = Nothing
    Else
        Challenge1 = Mid$(input, 2, len(input) - 2) 
    End If
End Function

Visual Basic .NET

Function Challenge1(input as String)
    Return If(input.Length > 2, Mid(input, 2, len(input) - 2), Nothing)
End Function

C#

string Challenge1(string input) => input.Length > 2 ? input.Substring(1, input.Length - 2) : null;

C# using LINQ (because yes)

string Challenge1(string input) => input.Length > 2 ? string.Concat(input.Skip(1).Take(input.Length - 2)) : null;
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Shannon Crabill

I liked today's challenge so I'm going back to do past ones

def string_peeler(string)
  if string.length > 2
    string.delete(string[0]).delete(string[-1])
  end
end

Returns

string_peeler("hi") => nil 
string_peeler("killer") => "ille" 
string_peeler("BOB") => "O" 
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Jarod Smith

// "enterprise" solution
function peelString(str = '')
{
  //validate
  if(typeof(str) != 'string')
    throw new Error(`${str}, ${typeof(str)} is not a string`);
  if(str.length <= 2)
    throw new Error(`${str} does not have atleast 3 letters`);

  // process
  return str.substring(1,str.length-1);
}

My "enterprise" solution

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Robin Victorino • Edited

Hi!

A bit late to the party, but here's a Groovy one:

String peel(String toPeel) {
    if(!(toPeel?.length() > 2)) {
        throw new Exception('Can\'t peel a string shorter than 3 characters')
    }
    return toPeel[1..-2]
}
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flamangoes

My approach in groovy...

Not sure if "ignore <2 chars" means "don't consider" or "ignore the trimming"

Don't consider =>

String peel(String toPeel) {
    toPeel[1..-2]
}

Ignore =>

String peel(String toPeel) {
    toPeel?.length() >2 ? toPeel[1..-2] : toPeel
}

I don't like returning null.

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Anil Kumar Khandei

I am so many months late in the game so starting with the first one.

 public static string StringPeeler(string InputStr)
        {
            if (InputStr.Length <= 2)
            {
                return "invalid";
            }
            else
            {
                return InputStr.Substring(1, InputStr.Length - 2);
            }
        }

And also unit tested the same:

 [TestMethod]
        public void StringPeeler_InvalidTest()
        {
           var result= DEVToChallenges.StringPeeler("a");

            Assert.IsTrue(result == "invalid");
        }
        [TestMethod]
        public void StringPeeler_InvalidTestTwo()
        {
            var result = DEVToChallenges.StringPeeler("an");

            Assert.IsTrue(result == "invalid");
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void StringPeeler_InvalidTestThree()
        {
            var result = DEVToChallenges.StringPeeler("ant");

            Assert.IsFalse(result == "invalid");
        }

        [TestMethod]
        public void StringPeeler_ValidTestOne()
        {
            var result = DEVToChallenges.StringPeeler("cobol");

            Assert.IsTrue(result == "obo");
        }
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Devendra Dhanal
const stringTrimmer = input => input.length <=2 ? null : input.substring(1, input.length - 1)



console.log(stringTrimmer("Lorem Ipsum")) // orem Ipsu
console.log(stringTrimmer("John Doe")) // ohn Do
console.log(stringTrimmer("Fox jumps over")) // ox jumps ove
console.log(stringTrimmer("Lorem")) // ore
console.log(stringTrimmer("Lo")) // null
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Ganesh Prasad

const test = require ('./tester');

const f = str => str.length > 2 ? str.slice(1, -1) : null;
test (f, [
    {
        in: ['Dev'],
        out: 'e',
    },
    {
        in: ['GP'],
        out: null,
    },
    {
        in: ['hello'],
        out: 'ell'
    }
]);

[PASSED]  Case #1: e
[PASSED]  Case #2: null
[PASSED]  Case #3: ell

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Bruce Axtens

I've only just stumbled over the Daily Challenge. Oh well, here's my C# Linq solution (different from the other one) and returns an empty string if length <= 2.

public static string StringPeeler(string str) => string.Join("", from ch in str.ToCharArray(1, str.Length - 2) select ch);
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Michael Baas

APL (using Dyalog APL)

as a direct function:

      peeler←{1↓¯1↓⍵}

Testing it

      peeler 'Works'
ork

Try it online!

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Adan ϟ

I'll start doing this challenges in Dart :D

import 'dart:io';

main() {
  stdout.writeln('Phrase?');
  String phrase = stdin.readLineSync();
  phrase.length > 2 ? print(phrase.substring(1, phrase.length - 1)) : print('Invalid Phrase');
}

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David Wickes

Factor

USING: kernel math sequences ;
IN: dev.to-daily-challenge

: not-first-and-last ( str -- str ) dup length 2 >  [ rest but-last ] [ ] if ;

and some tests

USING: tools.test dev.to-daily-challenge ;
IN: dev.to-daily-challenge.tests

{ "ell" } [ "hello" not-first-and-last ] unit-test
{ "e" } [ "hel" not-first-and-last ] unit-test
{ "ha" } [ "ha" not-first-and-last ] unit-test
{ "" } [ "" not-first-and-last ] unit-test
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Peter Bunting

In F#. Not the most straightforward way to solve this, but I wanted to use the language Array splicing.

let stringToByteArray (s:string)= System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes s
let byteArraySplice x y (b: byte[]) = b.[x..y]
let byteArrayToString (b: byte[]) = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString b

let stringPeeler s = 
    s
    |> stringToByteArray
    |> byteArraySplice 1 (s.Length - 2)
    |> byteArrayToString

printfn "%s" <| stringPeeler "abcdefgh"
printfn "%s" <| stringPeeler "ab"
printfn "%s" <| stringPeeler "a"
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Peter Bunting

And it turns out that you don't even need to explicitly convert it to an array. F# will let you do splicing on a string. So a much better solution is:

let stringPeeler (s: string) = s.[1..(s.Length - 2)]
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Tallie

My solution using Python and list comprehension :)

def stringPeeler(string_to_peel):
    if len(string_to_peel) > 2:
        return "".join([x for i, x in enumerate(list(string_to_peel)) if (len(string_to_peel) - 1) > i > 0])
    else:
        return None
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David Figueroa

Powershell

function Remove-FirstAndLastCharacter {
    param(
        [parameter(Mandatory,ValueFromPipelineByName)]
        [string]$Input
    )
    if ($Input.length -ge 3)
    { 
        return $Input.SubString(1,$Input.Length - 2)
    }
}
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Rodrigo Sene

JAVA

public class Solution {

    public static String getStringCore(String input){
        if(input.length() > 2){
            return input.substring(1, input.length() -1);
        }
        return "invalid input";
    }

    public static void main(String[] arg){
        System.out.println(Solution.getStringCore("let's do it agin"));
    }
}
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Jesse Doka • Edited

Python

def string_peeler(string):
    stringarr = []
    newstring = ''

    for x in string:
        stringarr.append(x)

    del(stringarr[0])
    del(stringarr[-1])

    for em in stringarr:
        newstring += em
    print(newstring)

string_peeler('Missing two letters')

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margo1993

Yesterday I started to discover golang, so i try do make these daily challenges in go.

My simple go solution

func RemoveFirstAndLastCharacterInWord(word string) (string, error) {
    wordLen := len(word)
    if wordLen < 3 {
        return "", errors.New("String: word is too short")
    }
    return word[1 : wordLen-1], nil
}
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Jen Chan • Edited

Handwrote my answer to practice:

const firstLast = (str) => {
const letters = [...str];

if (letters.length <=2){
return null;
}

let trimmed = letters.shift().pop();
return trimmed.join('');
}
Now to see if it works...

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Caleb Rudder • Edited

C++ that takes user input

string prompt = "Enter a string: ";
string userInput;

cout << prompt << endl;
getline(cin,userInput);

if (userInput.length() > 2) {

    userInput = userInput.substr(1, (userInput.length() - 2));

}

cout << userInput;
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Geofrey Aduda • Edited

java function using string builder

public String removefirstWordLastWord(String mystring )
{
///Delete last and first character

StringBuilder chr=new StringBuilder(mystring);
String strresult="";
if (mystring.length()>=2)
{
chr.deleteCharAt(0);
chr.deleteCharAt(chr.length()-1);
strresult=chr.toString();
}else{
strresult=("Invalid String");
}
}

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khaloscar • Edited

Im new to rust, and tried to get in some detailed error-handling.
Also added the functionality to not peel text that is too long as it does not make sense to me rn.
Maybe it would be better to take an String instead of &str as an argument, but idk.

fn peel_string(input: &str) -> Result<&str, Box<dyn Error>> {
    let output = match input.len() {
        3..=16 => Ok(&input[1..input.len() - 1]),
        len if len > 16 => Err("Input too long, should be 3-16 chars".into()),
        len if len == 0 =>Err("No input, should be 3-16 chars".into()),
        _ => Err("Input too short, should be 3-16 chars".into()),
    };

    output
}
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karthick rajan • Edited

Purescript

flremove val =
let
value = toCharArray val
value1 = Array.length value
in
if (length val > 2)
then do
show $ fromCharArray $ Array.slice 1 (value1 -1) value
else ""

main = render =<< withConsole do
log $ flremove "string"

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official_dulin

Go:

package kata

func RemoveChar(word string) string {
  return word[1:len(word)-1]
}
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Rafael Acioly

Go

func strip(content string) (string, error){
    if len(content) <= 2 {
        return "", error.New("invalid length")
    }

    return content[1:len(content)-1], nil
}        
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Cent

JS

Codepen


const stringPeeler = text => {
  return text.length < 3 ? null : text.substr(1, text.length-2);
}

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diegous

Haskell

middleChars :: String -> String
middleChars = tail . dropLast
            where dropLast (last:[])   = []
                  dropLast (head:tail) = head : (dropLast tail)
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Jeffrey Hill

JS

const str => str.length > 2 ? str.slice(1, -1) : undefined;
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Rachit Sharma

Too late to the wagon, but here.

JS:

function peeler(str){
    return str.length > 2 ? str.slice(1).slice(0, str.length - 2) : null
}
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Craig McIlwrath

Haskell:

removeFirstAndLast :: [a] -> Maybe [a]
removeFirstAndLast xs 
  | length xs < 3 = Nothing 
  | otherwise = Just $ init $ tail xs

As a bonus, it works on any type of list

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Vivek • Edited

Javascript

const stringPeeler = str => {
  if (undefined === str || null === str || 2 >= str) {
    throw new Error('Invalid String');
  }

  return str.slice(1, -1);
};
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Palash Bauri 👻

Here The Journey Begins.. 🚀

Python

def challenge1(s):
    if len(s)<2:
        return None
    else:
        return s[1:-1:]
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Rafi

Rust

fn main() {
  let input = "Hello, world!";
  let output = &input[1..(input.len() - 1)];
  println!("{}", output);
}
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pochirajuAnirudh

Python 3

def remove_first_and_last_characters(input_string):
    if len(input_string) < 3 or type(input_string) != str:
        return "invalid"
    return input_string[1:-1]
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sachindra@work

function stringPeeler(str) {
return str.length > 2 ? str.substr(1, str.length-2) : 'Invalid String'
}

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Dinny Paul • Edited

I think Javascript is the most efficient line liner, I have also added trim :) to take care of extra white spaces

console.log(" String ".trim().slice(1,-1)||null);
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Nedy Udombat

Javascript

const strip = (string) => {
  if(string.length <= 2) return 'Invalid'
  return string.substring(1, string.length-1)
}
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Ben Lovy

I'm late to the party, catching up one by one!

Haskell:

trimAtBothEnds :: String -> Maybe String
trimAtBothEnds s = if ((length s) <= 2) then Nothing else Just (init.tail $ s)
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Tori Crawford

Ruby

def remove_char(s)
  raise "invalid string" if s.size < 3

  return s[1..-1].chop
end
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Vicente G. Reyes • Edited

Python

def remove(yo):
    if yo <= 2:
        print("Not enough characters in string")
    else:
    return yo[1:-1]
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Arit Developer

Ruby

def first_last_gone(string)
    return "Invalid Entry" unless string.length > 2
    string.slice!(0)
    string.slice!(-1)
    string
end
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Darrik Moberg

R

peel <-function(inputString) {
  ifelse(nchar(inputString) <=2, NA,
 substr(inputString,2,nchar(inputString)-1))
}

Natively works on matrices/vectors of strings, which is cool.

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Harshal Raverkar
private void RemoveFirstandLast(string str){

str = str.Substring(1,str.Length-2);
Console.WriteLine(str);
}
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willsmart

Seat of your pants GNU C

printf(“String: %s”, s);
printf(“ trin : %s”, ({s[strlen(s)-1]=0;s+1;}));

(untested, also a bad idea in multiple ways)

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Jordon Replogle

Perl?

$testing = "Happy coding!";
print &peeler($testing) . "\n";

sub peeler {
    my $str = shift;
    if(length($str) > 2) {
        return substr($str, 1, -1);
    }
}

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E. Choroba

Or maybe just

sub peeler { shift =~ s/^.|.$//gr }
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Harshal Raverkar
private void RemoveFirstandLast(string str){

str = str.Substring(1,str.Length-2);
Console.WriteLine(str);
}

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Harshal Raverkar

if (str.Length <= 2) return;
var t = str.Substring(1, str.Length - 2);
Console.Write(t);

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Long Nguyen

Javascript

function removeFirstAndLast(txt) {
  if (typeof txt != "string" || !txt || txt.length < 2) {
    return null;
  }
  return txt.slice(1, txt.length - 1);
}
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Ronak Jethwa
function remove_ends(str) {
    return str.length <= 2 ? null : str.substr(1,str.length-2);
}
remove_ends("string");
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cloudyhug

Haskell

removeFirstAndLast :: String -> String
removeFirstAndLast s
  | length s <= 2 = s
  | otherwise     = init $ tail s
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Steve Moon

Erlang

fltrim (Input) when length(Input) > 2 ->
    string:slice(Input, 1, length(Input) - 2).
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Maynard Cabalitan • Edited

Ruby

def trimmer(str)
  str.length  > 2  ? str[1..-2] : 'invalid'
end

Or

class String
  def trimmer
    self.length > 2 ? self[1..-2] : 'invalid'
  end
end
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K.V.Harish

My solution in js


const stringPeeler = (str) => str.length > 2 ? str.substr(1, str.length - 2) : `Invalid input to stringPeeler function ${str}`;

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Theo • Edited

The SmEXy python.

ToModify = input("Input:")
size = len(ToModify)
if size > 2:
  print(ToModify[1:-1])
else:
   print("String can't be less than two characters")
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Akash Deep

Java:

someString.length()<=2?someString:someString.substring(1,someString.length()-1)

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Michael Treanor

Python:

code:

import sys
print("\n".join([arg[1:-1] for arg in sys.argv[1:] if len(arg) > 2]))

example:

# example

❯ ./first_and_last.py this is a bad example
hi
a
xampl
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spyrosko • Edited
function word(str) {

   let i = str.slice(1, -1);

   if (i) {
      return i;
   } else {
      return 'null';
   }
}
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Noorul Ameen K M

const strig_slicer = (some_string) => some_string.length >= 2 : some_string.slice(1,-1) : null

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Dimitri Lahaye

Here in JS

function remove(str) {
  if (str.length >= 3) {
    return str.slice(1, -1);
  }
}
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Mohit Mahajan

I am new to the coding world so my code may not be that much efficient, but i am happy with the fact that i wrote it.

import sys
def trim_characters(input_string):
return_string=""
#print(return_string)
if (len(input_string))>2:
for i in range(0, len(input_string)):
if i!=0 and i!=len(input_string)-1:
return_string=return_string + input_string[i]
print("Output string : "+ return_string)
else:
print("Minnimum 3 characters are allowed")
trim_characters(sys.argv[1])

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David Leger
const peelString = (s: string): string => {
  return s.length > 2 ? s.slice(1, -1) : null;
}
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peter279k

Here is my simple solution :).

function removeChar(str){
 //You got this!
  return str.substr(1, str.length-2);
};
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Ronak Jethwa
return str.length > 2 ? str.slice(1,str.length-1) : str;
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Umesh Jadhav

javascript

(function (str) {
if (str.length <= 2) {
return null;
}
console.log(str.slice(1, str.length - 1));
})('cut me from start and end')

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AnfossiStudio

JavaScript

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Rong Sen Ng

Just to clarify. Can any given string contain whitespace character? What is the expected output of " \r\n"?

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heeba khan

this is very basic but i'm just a beginner :

a = "challenge of the day"

if (len(a)) > 2:
print( a[ 1 : len(a)-1])
else :
print(a)

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Mohit Mahajan

I am new to coding world, so my code might not be that efficient but i am happy with the fact that i have completed it.

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mufadhal • Edited

Javascript :
s1 = s.length > 2 ? s.slice(1,s.length-1):null

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rahul0706

public static String removeFirstAndLastLetter(String str) {
if(str.length()>2) {
return str.substring(1, str.length()-1);
}
return null;
}

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Harshal Raverkar

if (str.Length <= 2) return;
var t = str.Substring(1, str.Length - 2);
Console.Write(t);