Update: As a matter of fact, I did. Here’s some Python code to prove it:
# Counts how many times a particular letter appears in a string.# Very basic code, made it just to clown on the AI bubble.
appearances = int(0) # Counts how many times the selected char appears.
sentence = input("Write some shit: ")
sentence_length = len(sentence) # We need to know how long the sentence is for later
character_select = input("Select a character: ") # Your input can be as long as you wish, but only the first char will be taken
chosen_char = chr(ord(character_select[0]))
# Three-line versionfor i inrange (0, sentence_length):
if chosen_char in sentence[i]:
appearances = appearances + 1# Two-line version (doesn't work - not sure why)# for chosen_char in sentence:# appearances = appearances + 1# (Tested using "strawberry" as sentence and "r" as character_select. Ended up getting a result of 10 ("strawberry" is 10 chars long BTW))# Finally, print the fucking resultprint("Your input contains "+str(appearances)+" appearances of the character ("+character_select+").")
There’s probably a bug or two in this I missed, but hey, it still proves I’m more of a programmer than Sam Altman ever will be.
the for x in y statement takes iterable y and assigns a value from it to x per iteration (loop), so what happens is that it’s reassigning chosen_char each loop to the next item from the sentence
(sum([x for x in sentence if x== chosen_char]) would be a quick one-liner, presuming one has downcased the sentence and other input/safety checks)
(e: this post was in response to your 2-liner comment in the code)
Update: As a matter of fact, I did. Here’s some Python code to prove it:
# Counts how many times a particular letter appears in a string. # Very basic code, made it just to clown on the AI bubble. appearances = int(0) # Counts how many times the selected char appears. sentence = input("Write some shit: ") sentence_length = len(sentence) # We need to know how long the sentence is for later character_select = input("Select a character: ") # Your input can be as long as you wish, but only the first char will be taken chosen_char = chr(ord(character_select[0])) # Three-line version for i in range (0, sentence_length): if chosen_char in sentence[i]: appearances = appearances + 1 # Two-line version (doesn't work - not sure why) # for chosen_char in sentence: # appearances = appearances + 1 # (Tested using "strawberry" as sentence and "r" as character_select. Ended up getting a result of 10 ("strawberry" is 10 chars long BTW)) # Finally, print the fucking result print("Your input contains "+str(appearances)+" appearances of the character ("+character_select+").")There’s probably a bug or two in this I missed, but hey, it still proves I’m more of a programmer than Sam Altman ever will be.
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for x in ystatement takes iterableyand assigns a value from it toxper iteration (loop), so what happens is that it’s reassigningchosen_chareach loop to the next item from the sentence(
sum([x for x in sentence if x == chosen_char])would be a quick one-liner, presuming one has downcased the sentence and other input/safety checks)(e: this post was in response to your 2-liner comment in the code)