def strip_string()

in lm_eval/tasks/hendrycks_math/utils.py [0:0]

• 30 lines of code
• 14 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def strip_string(string):
    # linebreaks
    string = string.replace("\n", "")

    # remove inverse spaces
    string = string.replace("\\!", "")

    # replace \\ with \
    string = string.replace("\\\\", "\\")

    # replace tfrac and dfrac with frac
    string = string.replace("tfrac", "frac")
    string = string.replace("dfrac", "frac")

    # remove \left and \right
    string = string.replace("\\left", "")
    string = string.replace("\\right", "")

    # Remove circ (degrees)
    string = string.replace("^{\\circ}", "")
    string = string.replace("^\\circ", "")

    # remove dollar signs
    string = string.replace("\\$", "")

    # remove units (on the right)
    string = remove_right_units(string)

    # remove percentage
    string = string.replace("\\%", "")
    string = string.replace("\%", "")  # noqa: W605

    # " 0." equivalent to " ." and "{0." equivalent to "{." Alternatively, add "0" if "." is the start of the string
    string = string.replace(" .", " 0.")
    string = string.replace("{.", "{0.")
    # if empty, return empty string
    if len(string) == 0:
        return string
    if string[0] == ".":
        string = "0" + string

    # to consider: get rid of e.g. "k = " or "q = " at beginning
    if len(string.split("=")) == 2:
        if len(string.split("=")[0]) <= 2:
            string = string.split("=")[1]

    # fix sqrt3 --> sqrt{3}
    string = fix_sqrt(string)

    # remove spaces
    string = string.replace(" ", "")

    # \frac1b or \frac12 --> \frac{1}{b} and \frac{1}{2}, etc. Even works with \frac1{72} (but not \frac{72}1). Also does a/b --> \\frac{a}{b}
    string = fix_fracs(string)

    # manually change 0.5 --> \frac{1}{2}
    if string == "0.5":
        string = "\\frac{1}{2}"

    # NOTE: X/Y changed to \frac{X}{Y} in dataset, but in simple cases fix in case the model output is X/Y
    string = fix_a_slash_b(string)

    return string