--- a/manipulating-strings/questions.rst Fri Oct 08 13:12:25 2010 +0530
+++ b/manipulating-strings/questions.rst Fri Oct 08 16:11:20 2010 +0530
@@ -1,17 +1,94 @@
-Objective
----------
+Objective Questions
+-------------------
+
+.. A mininum of 8 questions here (along with answers)
+
+1. Given the list week::
+
+ ["sun", "mon", "tue", "wed", "thu", "fri", "sat"]
+
+ ``"Sun" in week`` returns True or False?
+
+ Answer: False
+
+#. Given the string ``s = "palindrome"``, what is returned by s[4:]
+
+ Answer: ``ndrome``
+
+#. Given the string ``s = "palindrome"``, what is returned by s[-4]
+
+ Answer: ``r``
+
+#. Given the string ``s = "palindrome"``, what is returned by s[4::-1]
-.. A mininum of 8 questions here.
+ Answer: ``nilap``
+
+#. Given the string ``s = "palindrome"``, what is returned by s[-4:]
+
+ Answer: ``rome``
+
+#. Given a string ``s = "this is a string"``, how will you change it
+ to ``"this isn't a list"`` ?
-1. Question 1
-2. Question 2
-3. Question 3
+ Answer::
+
+ s = s.replace("string", "list")
+ s = s.replace("is", "isn't")
+
+#. Given a string ``s = "this is a string"``, how will you change it
+ to ``"THIS ISN'T A LIST"`` ?
+
+ Answer::
+
+ s = s.replace("string", "list")
+ s = s.replace("is", "isn't")
+ s = s.upper()
+#. Given a line from a CSV file (comma separated values), convert it
+ to a space separated line.
-Programming
------------
+ Answer: line.replace(',' ' ')
+
+#. Given the string "F.R.I.E.N.D.S" in s, obtain the friends.
+
+ Answer: ``s[::2].lower()
+
+Larger Questions
+----------------
+
+.. A minimum of 2 questions here (along with answers)
+
+1. Given the string friends, obtain the string "F.R.I.E.N.D.S".
+
+ Answer::
+
+ s = "friends"
+ s = s.upper()
+ s_list = list(s)
+ ".".join(s_list)
-.. A minimum of 2 questions here.
+2. Given a string with double quotes and single quotes. Interchange
+ all the double quotes to single quotes and vice-versa. [Solve it
+ for this particular string. Not a generic one. Solve it for a
+ generic string, if you know how to iterate over a list.]
+
+ s = """ "Isn't this a 'simple' task?" "No, it isn't." "Yes! it is." """
+
+ Answer::
+
+ s = s.replace('"', '#')
+ s = s.replace("'", '"')
+ s = s.replace('#', "'")
-1. Programming Assignment 1
-2. Programming Assignment 2
+ .. depends on ``for`` which is not an LO dependency a generic string.
+
+ For generic string
+ Answer::
+
+ S = []
+ s_list = s.split("'")
+
+ for s_s in s_list:
+ S.append(s_s.replace('"', "'"))
+
+ s = '"'.join(S)