Problem 290. Make one big string out of two smaller strings

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Nicholas Howe on 23 Apr 2012

Needs a better test suite, although the problem is so simple it almost doesn't matter.

Claudio Gelmi on 18 Nov 2012

There is a typo in the second Test Suite answer.

Florent Hennart on 12 Jun 2013

A small but useful improvment would be to do NOT give the answer when starting the problem. Clicking submit is not a problem.

Timothy Greco on 6 Jun 2016

Props to everyone who solved it with a size not equal to 14 for displaying originality despite the best efforts of whoever posted this problem.

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sea knowledge on 27 Feb 2013

this problem confused me which l thought to be hard

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William Smith on 25 Sep 2012

Why not make it insist that you take an arbitrary number of parameters. There's no 'extra credit' in this problem.

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Jan on 6 Mar 2012

2nd half of the format string is not needed.

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