Communities

Writing
Writing
Codidact Meta
Codidact Meta
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
Photography & Video
Photography & Video
Scientific Speculation
Scientific Speculation
Cooking
Cooking
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Judaism
Judaism
Languages & Linguistics
Languages & Linguistics
Software Development
Software Development
Mathematics
Mathematics
Christianity
Christianity
Code Golf
Code Golf
Music
Music
Physics
Physics
Linux Systems
Linux Systems
Power Users
Power Users
Tabletop RPGs
Tabletop RPGs
Community Proposals
Community Proposals
tag:snake search within a tag
answers:0 unanswered questions
user:xxxx search by author id
score:0.5 posts with 0.5+ score
"snake oil" exact phrase
votes:4 posts with 4+ votes
created:<1w created < 1 week ago
post_type:xxxx type of post
Search help
Notifications
Mark all as read See all your notifications »
Challenges

Post History

86%
+11 −0
Challenges Merge two strings

Challenge Given two strings a and b, return the shortest string s so that s starts with a and ends with b. (Inspired by https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/57816868#57816868 ) Exam...

8 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by rak1507‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by radarek‭

Question code-golf
#3: Post edited by user avatar rak1507‭ · 2021-04-29T11:47:42Z (over 3 years ago)
  • ## Challenge
  • Given two strings a and b, return the shortest string s so that s starts with a and ends with b.
  • (Inspired by https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/57816868#57816868 )
  • ## Examples
  • ```
  • 'ABCDEF', 'EFGHI' -> 'ABCDEFGHI'
  • 'AAAAAA', 'AAAAAAAA' -> 'AAAAAAAA'
  • 'ABC', '123' -> 'ABC123'
  • '', 'ABCDE', -> 'ABCDE'
  • 'ABCD', 'ABCD' -> 'ABCD'
  • '', '' -> ''
  • ```
  • Brownie points for beating my 26 in APL.
  • ## Challenge
  • Given two strings a and b, return the shortest string s so that s starts with a and ends with b.
  • (Inspired by https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/57816868#57816868 )
  • ## Examples
  • ```
  • 'ABCDEF', 'EFGHI' -> 'ABCDEFGHI'
  • 'AAAAAA', 'AAAAAAAA' -> 'AAAAAAAA'
  • 'ABC', '123' -> 'ABC123'
  • '', 'ABCDE' -> 'ABCDE'
  • 'ABCD', 'ABCD' -> 'ABCD'
  • '', '' -> ''
  • ```
  • Brownie points for beating my 26 in APL.
#2: Post edited by user avatar rak1507‭ · 2021-04-29T11:32:10Z (over 3 years ago)
  • ## Challenge
  • Given two strings a and b, return the shortest string s so that s starts with a and ends with b.
  • (Inspired by https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/57816868#57816868 )
  • ## Examples
  • ```
  • 'ABCDEF', 'EFGHI' -> 'ABCDEFGHI'
  • 'AAAAAA', 'AAAAAAAA' -> 'AAAAAAAA'
  • 'ABC', '123' -> 'ABC123'
  • '', 'ABCDE', -> 'ABCDE'
  • ```
  • Brownie points for beating my 26 in APL.
  • ## Challenge
  • Given two strings a and b, return the shortest string s so that s starts with a and ends with b.
  • (Inspired by https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/57816868#57816868 )
  • ## Examples
  • ```
  • 'ABCDEF', 'EFGHI' -> 'ABCDEFGHI'
  • 'AAAAAA', 'AAAAAAAA' -> 'AAAAAAAA'
  • 'ABC', '123' -> 'ABC123'
  • '', 'ABCDE', -> 'ABCDE'
  • 'ABCD', 'ABCD' -> 'ABCD'
  • '', '' -> ''
  • ```
  • Brownie points for beating my 26 in APL.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar rak1507‭ · 2021-04-29T11:21:54Z (over 3 years ago)
Merge two strings
## Challenge

Given two strings a and b, return the shortest string s so that s starts with a and ends with b.

(Inspired by https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/57816868#57816868 )

## Examples

```
'ABCDEF', 'EFGHI' -> 'ABCDEFGHI'
'AAAAAA', 'AAAAAAAA' -> 'AAAAAAAA'
'ABC', '123' -> 'ABC123'
'', 'ABCDE', -> 'ABCDE'
```

Brownie points for beating my 26 in APL.