Problem 649. Return the first and last characters of a character array
Return the first and last characters of a character array, concatenated together. If there is only one character in the character array, the function should give that character back twice since it is both the first and last character of the character array.
Example:
stringfirstandlast('boring example') = 'be'
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Rik
on 19 Jan 2021
There is a difference between string and char array since R2016b. Before that they could be used interchangeably, but now that is no longer true (although I believe some doc pages are still not careful about this).
goc3
on 20 Jan 2021
The title and description have been updated, along with a few new test cases.
Bryce Lewis
on 5 May 2021
Wow this actually is such a great question
ML
on 28 Jan 2023
good problem
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