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Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

Start file

z

End file

print(f"{z}")

View Diff

1c1
< z
\ No newline at end of file
---
> print(f"{z}")
\ No newline at end of file

Solutions

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liprint("<BS>f"{<BS><BS>{"<BS><BS>"{l<BS><Esc>la}")<Esc>:<CR><Down><Down><Down><Down><Down><Down><Down>i<Esc>hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhlllllllllllll:WQ<BS><BS>wq<CR>

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314 active golfers, 561 entries

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#296 - Daniel Moore / @xdhmoore

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#299 - YinChuang / @yinchuang96

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