OCTAVE with enlarging width of elements - vector

I have a problem (Octave):
lets say I have a = 1 2 3 4 5
and I want to add 'b' character to every element in a.. So that I get something like that: a = 1b 2b 3b 4b 5b
How do I do that?
Thanx

To be able to do that, a must be defined as a string of characters rather than an array of doubles. There may be a more elegant solution, but the following works:
a = num2str(1:5); % '1' is a(1), '2' is a(5), etc...
% a(2) to a(4) are white spaces
for k=2:4:18
a(k) = 'b';
end

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Can Powerbi count multiple occurrences of a specific text within a cell?

What i am trying to find out is, for example let's take as an example the following table:
| Col 1 | Col 2 |
|-------|---------|
| ab | 1 |
| ab ab | 2 |
| ac | 1 |
| ae | 1 |
| ae ae | 2 |
| af | 1 |
So basically if there are two occurrences of the same item in the cell, I want to display 2 in the next column. If there are 3, then 3 and so on. The thing is that I am looking for specific strings most of the time. Its a text and number string.
Is this doable in Power BI?
Assuming you want to count the number of occurrences of the first non-space characters that occur before the first separating space, you can do the following:
Col 2 =
VAR Trimmed = TRIM(Table2[Col 1])
VAR FirstSpace = SEARCH(" ", Trimmed, 1, LEN(Trimmed) + 1)
VAR FirstString = LEFT(Trimmed, FirstSpace - 1)
RETURN DIVIDE(
LEN(Trimmed) - LEN(SUBSTITUTE(Trimmed, FirstString, "")),
FirstSpace - 1
)
Let's go through an example to see how this works. Suppose we have a string " abc abc abc ".
The TRIM function removes any extraneous spaces at the beginning an end, so Trimmed = "abc abc abc".
The FirstSpace searches for the first space in Trimmed. In this case, FirstSpace = 4. (If there is no first space, then we define FirstSpace to be the length of Trimmed + 1 so the next part works correctly.)
The FirstString uses FirstSpace to find the first chunk. In this case, FirstString = "abc".
Finally, we use SUBSTITUTE to replace each FirstString with an empty string (leaving only the middle spaces) and look at how that changes the length of Trimmed. We know LEN(Trimmed) = 11 and LEN(" ") = 2, so the difference is the 9 characters we removed by substitution. We know that the 9 characters are n copies of FirstString, "abc" and we know the length of FirstString is FirstSpace - 1 = 3.
Thus we can solve 3n = 9 for n to get n = 9/3 = 3, the count of the "abc" substrings.

is it possible to get a new instance for namedtuple pushed into a dictionary before values are known?

It looks like things are going wrong on line 9 for me. Here I wish to push a new copy of the TagsTable into a dictionary. I'm aware that once a namedtuple field is recorded, it can not be changed. However, results baffle me as it looks like the values do change - when this code exits all entries of mp3_tags[ any of the three dictionary keys ].date are set to the last date of "1999_03_21"
So, two questions:
Is there a way to get a new TagsTable pushed into the dictionary ?
Why doesnt the code fail and not allow the second (and even third) date to be written to the TagsTable.date field (since it seems to be references to the same namedtuple) ? I thought you could not write a second value ?
from collections import namedtuple
2 TagsTable = namedtuple('TagsTable',['title','date','subtitle','artist','summary','length','duration','pub_date'])
3 mp3files = ['42-001.mp3','42-002.mp3','42-003.mp3']
4 dates = ['1999_01_07', '1999_02_14', '1999_03_21']
5
6 mp3_tags = {}
7
8 for mp3file in mp3files:
9 mp3_tags[mp3file] = TagsTable
10
11 for mp3file,date_string in zip(mp3files,dates):
12 mp3_tags[mp3file].date = date_string
13
14 for mp3file in mp3files:
15 print( mp3_tags[mp3file].date )
looks like this is the fix I was looking for:
from collections import namedtuple
mp3files = ['42-001.mp3','42-002.mp3','42-003.mp3']
dates = ['1999_01_07', '1999_02_14', '1999_03_21']
mp3_tags = {}
for mp3file in mp3files:
mp3_tags[mp3file] = namedtuple('TagsTable',['title','date','subtitle','artist','summary','length','duration','pub_date'])
for mp3file,date_string in zip(mp3files,dates):
mp3_tags[mp3file].date = date_string
for mp3file in mp3files:
print( mp3_tags[mp3file].date )

Classic ASP - Subtracting numbers but keep leading zeros

I was wondering if someone could help me out.
I have a number, it could be 004 or 010 ... I would like to subtract it by 1 and keep the leading zero.
Everytime i try to subtract, it always takes away the leading zero.
for instance
004 - 1
This always ends up as just
3
But i would like it to be
003
Having said that if i have 010 and i subtract 1 i would like it to be 009
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Do your calculations with integers then change to a string to display them. then concatenate "0" or "00" where needed eg
c = a - b
displayvalue = cstr(c)
if c < 100 then
displayvalue = "0" & cstr(c)
end if
if c < 10 then
displayvalue = "00" & cstr(c)
end if
Continue doing the math as you are but include some padding 0's using the Right and String functions.
Dim a, b
a = 003
b = 1
Right(String(3,"0") + cstr(a-b), 3)

Grep examples - can't understand

Given the following commands:
ls | grep ^b[^b]*b[^b]
ls | grep ^b[^b]*b[^b]*
I know that ^ marks the start of the line, but can anyone give me a brief explanation about
these commands? what do they do? (Step by step)
thanks!
^ can mean two things:
mark the beginning of a line
or it negates the character set (whithin [])
So, it means:
lines starting with 'b'
matching any (0+) characters Other than 'b'
matching another 'b'
followed by something not-'b' (or nothing at all)
It will match
bb
bzzzzzb
bzzzzzbzzzzzzz
but not
zzzzbb
bzzzzzxzzzzzz
1)starts with b and name continues with a 0 or more characters which are not b and then b and then continues with a character which is not b
2)starts with b and name continues with a 0 or more characters which are not b and then b and then continues with 0 or more characters which are not b

Regular expression to validate a string representing either number or addition of numbers

Help on validation expression to validate a string representing either number or addition of numbers.
e.g:
2 OK
22 + 3 OK
2+3 not OK
2 +3 not OK
2 + 34 + 45 OK
2 + 33 + not OK
2 + 33+ 4 not OK
This would be quite a simple pattern
^\d+(?: \+ \d+)*$
See it here on Regexr
^ anchor for the start of the string
$ anchor for the end of the string
The anchors are needed, otherwise the pattern will match "partly"
\d+ is at least one digit
(?: \+ \d+)* is a non capturing group that can be there 0 or more times (because of the * quantifier at the end)
Try:
/^\d+(\s+\+\s+\d+)*$/
This matches a number followed by an optional plus sign and number, which can then be repeated.

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