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Many of you may have interacted with people from Russia on the internet at some point, and a subset of you may have noticed the slightly odd method they have of expressing themselves.

e.g. деинсталляция игра нуб))) - (forgive the google translate)

where the ))) are added for emphasis on the previous statement, I have been working on a theory that the ratio of )'s to the rest of the string is directly proportional to the amount of implied emphasis, however I oftentimes find it difficult to compute the ratio on the fly, as I am also trying to cope with a slew of abuse, so I would like the shortest possible code to help me calculate what the resulting string should be, for a value of enthusiasm between 0 and 500%, given the original, unenthusiastic string, this will aid my research greatly as I will not have to type out bulky scripts every time I wish to test my hypothesis.

So, the challenge:

write a full program or function, which, provided two arguments, a string of unknown length, and a number, in either integer format (between 0 and 500) or in decimal format (between 0 and 5, with 2 points of accuracy) will

  • return/display the original string, suffixed with a number of )'s
  • the number will be the calculated as a ratio of the input number to the string length.
  • so if the number 200, or 2.00 was provided, 200% of the string must be suffixed as )'s
  • the number of brackets rounded to in decimal situations does not matter.
  • script is required to support Printable ASCII characters.
  • only has to support one input number format, of your choice.

Examples:

"codegolf" 125      = codegolf))))))))))
"codegolf" 75       = codegolf))))))
"noob team omg" 0.5 = noob team omg))))))
"hi!" 4.99          = hi!)))))))))))))))

Example code (PowerShell) (with decimal input):

Function Get-RussianString ([string]$InputStr,[decimal]$Ratio){
    $StrLen = $InputStr.Length
    $SuffixCount = $StrLen * $Ratio
    $Suffix = [string]::New(")",$SuffixCount)
    return $InputStr + $Suffix
}

Get-RussianString "codegolf" 0.5
codegolf))))

This is so shortest code wins!

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You were picking up those Russians on a dating site, weren't you? – Dmitry Grigoryev 2 days ago
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@DmitryGrigoryev the banner ad told me they were beautiful and looking for love. – ConnorLSW 2 days ago
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I wonder if it makes up for all the unmatched ('s in TI-BASIC... – 12Me21 2 days ago
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@CaptainMan No ) is reduced emoticon :). It is used very common between young people as far as I know. – talex 2 days ago
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@Juris it's as hard to write : on Russian layout (ЙЦУКЕН) as it is to type ^ on QWERTY. But indeed, the ) is a reduced version of :). It's much easier to press and hold Shift-0 than to repeatedly alternate keys. – Ruslan 2 days ago

31 Answers 31

Jelly, 7 bytes

ȮL×Ċ”)x

Try it online!

Uses the decimal format.

How?

ȮL×Ċ”)x - Main link: string, decimal
Ȯ       - print string
 L      - length(string)
  ×     - multiply by the decimal
   Ċ    - ceiling (since rounding method is flexible)
    ”)  - a ')' character
      x - repeated that many times
        - implicit print
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@ConnorLSW I just noticed that this will print the required string as a full program, but that the specification states "return" - is this OK? – Jonathan Allan 2 days ago
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any standard accepted output format is fine – ConnorLSW 2 days ago
    
Thanks, I just thought it best to double check. – Jonathan Allan 2 days ago
    
no worries - this is my first challenge so there's a few of these things that I missed, i've updated it in the question to be more clear - thanks for asking. – ConnorLSW 2 days ago

Perl 6, 21 bytes

{$^a~")"x$^b*$a.comb}
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JavaScript ES6, 38 31 30 bytes

s=>n=>s+')'.repeat(s.length*n)

f=s=>n=>s+')'.repeat(s.length*n)

console.log(f("hi!")(4.99))

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Nice, I think that's the shortest possible. You can save a byte through currying: s=>n=>s+')'.repeat(s.length*n) (it would then be called like f("hi!")(4.99)) – ETHproductions 2 days ago

Common Lisp, 59 52

Parentheses? I am in.

(lambda(s n)(format()"~a~v{)~}"s(*(length s)n)'(_)))

Details

(lambda(s n)                  ; two arguments (string and ratio)
  (format ()                  ; format as string
          "~a~v{)~}"          ; control string (see below)
          s                   ; first argument (string)
          (* (length s) n)    ; second argument (number of parens)
          '(_)))              ; a dummy list of one element

Format control string

  • ~a : pretty print argument (here the given string)
  • ~v{...~} : iteration block, limited to V iteration, where V is taken as an argument, namely the (* ...) expression. The iteration is supposed to iterate over a list, which is why there is a dummy non-empty list '(_) given as an argument (an empty list would not work).

Since no element in the list is consumed by the format, the loop is infinite but fortunately, it is also bounded by V, a.k.a. the number of parentheses to be printed.


Edit: thanks to Michael Vehrs for pointing out that there is no need to round the numerical argument (the question allows to truncate/round however we want, so the default behavior works here).

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(())/10 not enough parentheses – BgrWorker yesterday
    
Who thought this language is a good idea? – downrep_nation yesterday
    
Scheme's format accepts a decimal argument to v. Maybe Common Lisp's does, too? – Michael Vehrs 21 hours ago
    
@MichaelVehrs Indeed, thanks a lot. – coredump 21 hours ago
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@coredump Actually, I should have said "Guile's format accepts ...", since standard Scheme format does not support ~r; and Guile's format follows the example of Common Lisp's. – Michael Vehrs 19 hours ago

Python, 30 bytes

lambda s,r:s+')'*int(len(s)*r)

Uses the decimal input.

Try it online!

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Python 2, 29 bytes

lambda s,p:s+len(s)*p/100*')'

s in the string, p is the percentage (integer).

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05AB1E, 9 8 bytes

g*ï')×¹ì

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g*       # Length, multiplied by emphasis.
  ï')×   # Covnerted to an integer, push that many parenthesis.
      ¹ì # Prepend original string.

Works for both integer and decimal, arguments order: f(String, Double)

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PowerShell, 33 bytes

$a,$b=$args;$a+')'*($b*$a.Length)

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Supports decimal format.

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R, 62 46 bytes

Anonymous function that takes string s and decimal n, prints output to stdout.

function(s,n)cat(s,rep(")",n*nchar(s)),sep="")
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Pyth, 8 bytes

*\)s*lpz

Online Test! Takes the excitement ratio first, then the string to be enthused about.

Explanation:

      pz  print out the enthused string
     l    ... and get its length
    *...Q multiply that by the ratio
   s      floor to get an integer, let's call this S
 \)       single-character string ")"
* ")" S   multiply that integer by the string, which gives a string of )s of length S.
          implicitly print that string of S )s.
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Pyth, 9 bytes

*s*lpzE")

Takes two lines of input: string and ratio (decimal).

Try it on pyth.herokuapp.com

Explanation

A denotes a function's first argument, B its second argument.

*s*lpzE")
    pz     # print the input string
   lAA     # take the length of the printed string
      E    # read the next line of input (the emphasis ratio)
  *AAAB    # multiply the length by the ratio
 sAAAAA    # floor the result
*AAAAAA")  # repeat ")" n times
           # implicit print
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TI-Basic, 33 bytes

Takes decimal input.

Prompt Str1,A
")
For(I,0,9
Ans+Ans
End
Str1+sub(Ans,1,AI
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CJam, 9 bytes

l_,ld*')*

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Input string on the first line, emphasis ratio in range 0 to 5 on the second.

Explanation

l    e# Read input string.
_,   e# Duplicate, get length.
ld   e# Read emphasis ratio.
*    e# Multiply by length.
')*  e# Get that many parentheses.
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Perl 5, 29 bytes

sub{($_=pop).')'x(y///c*pop)}

(Number is first arg, string is second.)

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MATL, 11 10 8 bytes

yn*:"41h

This solution uses the decimal form of the second input

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Explanation

        % Implicitly grab first input as a string
        % Implicitly grab the second input as a number
y       % Make a copy of the first input
n       % Compute the length of the string
*       % Multiply the decimal by the length to determine the # of )'s (N)
:       % Create the array [1...N]
"       % For each element in this array
  41    % Push 41 to the stack (ACSII for ")")
  h     % Horizontally concatenate this with the current string
        % Implicit end of for loop and display
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sB~, 17 bytes

i\,N?\;')'*(N*l(\

Explained:

i\,N    input a string and a number
?\;     print the string
')'*    also print ) multiplied by...
(N*l(\  the number times the string length.

Parentheses are closed automatically

Here's the output of the compiler, if you're interested:

 INPUT  S$ ,N? S$ ;")"*(N* LEN(  S$ ))

This version of the compiler was written on 1/27/2017 at 11:12 pm, which might have been a few minutes after this question was posted. So here's a version which works on the oldest version of the compiler, written an hour earlier: iS$,N?S$;')'*(N*l(S$)) (22 bytes)

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Rebol, 39 bytes

func[a b][append/dup a")"b * length? a]
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SimpleTemplate, 92 bytes

Takes the string as the first parameter and the "ratio" as the second.
The ratio is between 0 and 5, with 2 decimal places.

{@echoargv.0}{@callstrlen intoL argv.0}{@set*Y argv.1,L}{@callstr_repeat intoO")",Y}{@echoO}

As you can see, it is non-optimal.
The 2 {echo} there could be reduced to 1.
Due to a bug in the compiler, this code can't be reduced much further.


Ungolfed:

{@echo argv.0}
{@call strlen into length argv.0}
{@set* ratio argv.1, length}
{@call str_repeat into parenthesis ")", ratio}
{@echo parenthesis}

If no bug existed, the code would look like this, 86 bytes:

{@callstrlen intoL argv.0}{@set*Y argv.1,L}{@callstr_repeat intoO")",Y}{@echoargv.0,O}
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C# Interactive, 77 67 bytes

string r(string s,int p)=>s+new string(')',(int)(s.Length*p/100d));

C# interactive is sweet.

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If you are using C# Interactive that needs to be in the header otherwise, in C#, you should include the using System; or fully qualify Math. Also, not sure if you can do it in interactive, but you could compile to a Func<string, Func<int, string>> to save bytes i.e. s=>p=>s+new... – TheLethalCoder yesterday
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Also you probably don't need the call to Math.Round just casting to an int should call Floor and the OP said either Floor or Ceiling is fine – TheLethalCoder yesterday

PostgreSQL, 102 bytes

create function q(text,int)returns text as $$select rpad($1,(100+$2)*length($1)/100,')')$$language sql

Details

Uses the integer input format.

This simply right-pads the input string with parens out to the target length.

create function q(text,int)
returns text as $$
    select rpad($1,             -- Pad the string input
        (100 + $2) *            -- to 100 + int input % ...
        length($1) / 100,       -- ...of the input string
        ')')                    -- with ) characters
$$ language sql

Called with

select q('codegolf', 125), q('codegolf', 75);
select q('noob team omg', 50), q('hi!', 499);
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SmileBASIC, 29 bytes

INPUT S$,N?S$;")"*(LEN(S$)*N)
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since 3*4.99 = 14.97, only 14 or 15 would be acceptable as answers, the 29 bytes version should work fine though, sorry! – ConnorLSW 2 days ago

Gol><> (Golfish), 17 bytes

i:a=?v
R*Il~/Hr)`

Try it here.

The top line reads characters (i) until it finds a newline (ASCII 10, a), then goes down (v).

Then we discard one character (the newline) with ~, push the length of the stack (l), read a float (I), multiply the two, and repeatedly (R) push the character ")" that many times. Finally, reverse the stack (r), output it and halt (H).

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Bash + coreutils, 45 bytes

echo $1`seq -s\) $[${#1}*$2/100+1]|tr -cd \)`

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Integer input.

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PHP, 50 bytes

<?=str_pad($s=$argv[1],strlen($s)*++$argv[2],")");

takes string and decimal number as command line arguments; cuts padding. Run with -r;

breakdown

<?=                     // print ...
str_pad(                    // pad
    $s=$argv[1],            // string=argument 1
    strlen($s)*++$argv[2],  // to string length*(1+argument 2) 
    ")"                     // using ")" as padding string
);
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Groovy, 27 bytes

Straightforward solution

{s,r->s+')'*(s.length()*r)}

Test program :

def f = {s,r->s+')'*(s.length()*r)}

println f("hi!", 4.99)
println f("noob team omg", 0.5)
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Mathematica, 24 bytes

#<>Table[")",#2Tr[1^#]]&

Unnamed function taking a list of characters and a decimal numbr as input and returning a string. Tr[1^#] is a sneaky golfy way to calculate the length of a list, so #2Tr[1^#] computes the required number of parentheses. Table[")",...] produces a list of that many right parentheses (all decimals automatically rounded down, which is nice). Finally, #<> concatenates the input string to the parentheses, flattening the list produced by Table as it goes.

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That's quite cheaty, taking the string as a list of characters, but returning as a multi-character string. For consistent IO formats you could replace <> with ~Join~ at a cost of 4 bytes – LLlAMnYP 16 hours ago
    
I'd be interested in a community judgment on this issue. If it's cheating, then of course I'll avoid this type of mismatch. But if it's just cheaty - well, it seems to me that cheaty is very much on topic for this site :) – Greg Martin 11 hours ago

Clojure, 40 bytes

Quite boring solution :

#(reduce str %(repeat(*(count %)%2)")"))

Just reduces str function on a list of closing parentheses with a string as initial parameter.

See it online : https://ideone.com/5jEgWS

Not-so-boring solution (64 bytes) :

#(.replace(str(nth(iterate list(symbol %))(*(count %)%2)))"(""")

Converts input string to a symbol (to get rid of quotes) and repeatedly applies function list on it generating infinite sequence like this: (a (a) ((a)) (((a))) ... ). Takes nth element converts it to string and replaces all opening parentheses with nothing.

See it online : https://ideone.com/C8JmaU

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Ruby, 25 bytes

->(s,n){s+')'*(s.size*n)}

I'm using lambdas. The test program would be something like:

f=->(s,n){s+')'*(s.size*n)}
f.("codegolf", 1.5)        # => "codegolf))))))))))))"
f.("hi!", 4.99)            # => "hi!))))))))))))))"
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GNU AWK, 59 bytes

{t=sprintf("%"n*length(s)"s","");gsub(/ /,")",t);print s t}

Accepts arguments on command line (using the decimal form) like so:

: | awk -v s="codegolf" -v n=0.75 -f russianify.awk

Yes, AWK requires something to be attached to stdin, even if that something is 0 bytes returned by the no-op shell builtin. You could also use echo | awk ..., or really anything that doesn't contain a newline.

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Clojure, 68 bytes

An anonymous function that accepts decimal input.

(fn [s n] (print (str s (reduce str (repeat (* n (count s)) ")")))))

Literally the first Lisp program I've ever written! I'm already having fun.

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