{"id":4141,"date":"2017-02-17T00:03:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T00:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=4141"},"modified":"2017-02-17T00:05:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T00:05:23","slug":"introducing-alternative-strings-and-a-tool-of-true-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/17\/introducing-alternative-strings-and-a-tool-of-true-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing alternative strings and a tool of true tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business is a world of words. Politics is a world of nuances.\u00a0 The very same principle applies to data analysis &#8211; strings are readable, and alternative strings are readable alternatively. Given the fact the alternative strings have never been paid attention to, I introduce a new script that aims at fixing this issue.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/tools\/alt-strings.pl\">alt-strings.pl<\/a> script is written in perl and is very simple to use. All you need to do is to run it using the following syntax:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<pre>perl alt-strings.pl &lt;filename&gt;<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The resulting output is very easy to interpret &#8211; here are two examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Running the script using its own code as an input shows a number of neglected blank characters:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/altstrings1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/altstrings1-300x183.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/altstrings1-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/altstrings1-80x50.png 80w, https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/altstrings1.png 613w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Running the script on calc.exe &#8211; note the &#8216;frozen&#8217; color of the window which indicates the next-gen AI algorithm is broadcasting the bells and other weird characters to the user making the analysis great again<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/altstrings2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4143\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/altstrings2-263x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/altstrings2-263x300.png 263w, https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/altstrings2.png 509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business is a world of words. Politics is a world of nuances.\u00a0 The very same principle applies to data analysis &#8211; strings are readable, and alternative strings are readable alternatively. Given the fact the alternative strings have never been paid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/17\/introducing-alternative-strings-and-a-tool-of-true-tools\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4146,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions\/4146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}