Problem 649. Return the first and last character of a string

Created by @bmtran (Bryant Tran)

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Return the first and last character of a string, concatenated together. If there is only one character in the string, the function should give that character back twice since it is both the first and last character of the string.

Example:

   stringfirstandlast('boring example') = 'be'

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Raymond MacNeil on 18 Nov 2019 at 9:05

Well, I guess my understanding that string is defined using (" " , i.e. double quotations) is incorrect. I thought class string was formally distinguished from char (defined using ' ', i.e. single quotes). I should have looked at the test-suite.

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Adobe Fl on 22 Oct 2019

Nice!

Raymond MacNeil on 18 Nov 2019 at 9:12

Only need:
out = x([1 end])
This is legal even if length(x) == 1, because in that case, x(1) == x(end)

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vahid simintan on 10 Nov 2015

that is it

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