• BlueMonday1984@awful.systems
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    27 days ago

    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.

    • froztbyte@awful.systems
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      27 days ago

      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)