Coding Challenge
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Back in the Days of Yore we had a couple of small coding challenges such as the Lean and Mean comp. I was thinking that there are a ton of small, well defined problems that can be tackled a zillion ways in a zillion languages and that it would be cool to see what you guys can come up with. I'd like to start the ball rolling with the following simple task: Problem: Given a string of text, trim from each end of the text each all occurrences of a given set of strings Sample input: Input string: "dog cat monkey dog horse dog" Strings that need to be trimmed from each end: { "dog", "cat" } Final output should be: " monkey dog horse" Final output should be " cat monkey dog horse " [Edit: My final sample output was incorrect, so to be fair I'll accept either answer] It's up to you whether you worry about case sensitivity. Let's see who can provide the smallest, neatest most elegant, most unique and/or fastest code. For those who feel like jumping on the "No Programming questions" bandwagon, please re-read the lounge guidelines. The point of this is to have fun, not to solve each other's programming issues.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Hey Chris, may I post my own programming issue labeling it with 'Coding Challenge' or 'Fun For Everyone'? Just Kidding! Sorry for my poor understanding of English, with
Chris Maunder wrote:
from either end
Do you mean the output string should be:
" monkey dog horse "
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Hey Chris, may I post my own programming issue labeling it with 'Coding Challenge' or 'Fun For Everyone'? Just Kidding! Sorry for my poor understanding of English, with
Chris Maunder wrote:
from either end
Do you mean the output string should be:
" monkey dog horse "
?
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
[My articles]"Either end" means you can choose which, otherwise he would have said "both ends". (I can't stand the use of "either" in place of "both".)
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"Either end" means you can choose which, otherwise he would have said "both ends". (I can't stand the use of "either" in place of "both".)
Actually, he said earlier in the post "each end", so he is indicating that it is from both sides. What this shows - Chris sucks at coming up with program specifications. :)
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Hey Chris, may I post my own programming issue labeling it with 'Coding Challenge' or 'Fun For Everyone'? Just Kidding! Sorry for my poor understanding of English, with
Chris Maunder wrote:
from either end
Do you mean the output string should be:
" monkey dog horse "
?
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
[My articles]I've updated the extremely rigourous and well planned specs to change "either" to "each" and to also show the final output string (so yes: " monkey dog horse ")
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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"Either end" means you can choose which, otherwise he would have said "both ends". (I can't stand the use of "either" in place of "both".)
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Back in the Days of Yore we had a couple of small coding challenges such as the Lean and Mean comp. I was thinking that there are a ton of small, well defined problems that can be tackled a zillion ways in a zillion languages and that it would be cool to see what you guys can come up with. I'd like to start the ball rolling with the following simple task: Problem: Given a string of text, trim from each end of the text each all occurrences of a given set of strings Sample input: Input string: "dog cat monkey dog horse dog" Strings that need to be trimmed from each end: { "dog", "cat" } Final output should be: " monkey dog horse" Final output should be " cat monkey dog horse " [Edit: My final sample output was incorrect, so to be fair I'll accept either answer] It's up to you whether you worry about case sensitivity. Let's see who can provide the smallest, neatest most elegant, most unique and/or fastest code. For those who feel like jumping on the "No Programming questions" bandwagon, please re-read the lounge guidelines. The point of this is to have fun, not to solve each other's programming issues.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I've got the solution in Brainfuck, but I can't find a compiler to check. #whistles#
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Back in the Days of Yore we had a couple of small coding challenges such as the Lean and Mean comp. I was thinking that there are a ton of small, well defined problems that can be tackled a zillion ways in a zillion languages and that it would be cool to see what you guys can come up with. I'd like to start the ball rolling with the following simple task: Problem: Given a string of text, trim from each end of the text each all occurrences of a given set of strings Sample input: Input string: "dog cat monkey dog horse dog" Strings that need to be trimmed from each end: { "dog", "cat" } Final output should be: " monkey dog horse" Final output should be " cat monkey dog horse " [Edit: My final sample output was incorrect, so to be fair I'll accept either answer] It's up to you whether you worry about case sensitivity. Let's see who can provide the smallest, neatest most elegant, most unique and/or fastest code. For those who feel like jumping on the "No Programming questions" bandwagon, please re-read the lounge guidelines. The point of this is to have fun, not to solve each other's programming issues.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
We could all just do these: http://projecteuler.net/[^]
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
(I can't stand the use of "either" in place of "both".)
Either means both, well, each of two - or it did in its original 'Ye Olde English' version.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
No, it means "one or the other".
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Back in the Days of Yore we had a couple of small coding challenges such as the Lean and Mean comp. I was thinking that there are a ton of small, well defined problems that can be tackled a zillion ways in a zillion languages and that it would be cool to see what you guys can come up with. I'd like to start the ball rolling with the following simple task: Problem: Given a string of text, trim from each end of the text each all occurrences of a given set of strings Sample input: Input string: "dog cat monkey dog horse dog" Strings that need to be trimmed from each end: { "dog", "cat" } Final output should be: " monkey dog horse" Final output should be " cat monkey dog horse " [Edit: My final sample output was incorrect, so to be fair I'll accept either answer] It's up to you whether you worry about case sensitivity. Let's see who can provide the smallest, neatest most elegant, most unique and/or fastest code. For those who feel like jumping on the "No Programming questions" bandwagon, please re-read the lounge guidelines. The point of this is to have fun, not to solve each other's programming issues.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
most unique
That'll be mine. :-D
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Chris Maunder wrote:
most unique
That'll be mine. :-D
Well...we're waiting :D
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Back in the Days of Yore we had a couple of small coding challenges such as the Lean and Mean comp. I was thinking that there are a ton of small, well defined problems that can be tackled a zillion ways in a zillion languages and that it would be cool to see what you guys can come up with. I'd like to start the ball rolling with the following simple task: Problem: Given a string of text, trim from each end of the text each all occurrences of a given set of strings Sample input: Input string: "dog cat monkey dog horse dog" Strings that need to be trimmed from each end: { "dog", "cat" } Final output should be: " monkey dog horse" Final output should be " cat monkey dog horse " [Edit: My final sample output was incorrect, so to be fair I'll accept either answer] It's up to you whether you worry about case sensitivity. Let's see who can provide the smallest, neatest most elegant, most unique and/or fastest code. For those who feel like jumping on the "No Programming questions" bandwagon, please re-read the lounge guidelines. The point of this is to have fun, not to solve each other's programming issues.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
Let's see who can provide the smallest, neatest most elegant, most unique and/or fastest code.
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Back in the Days of Yore we had a couple of small coding challenges such as the Lean and Mean comp. I was thinking that there are a ton of small, well defined problems that can be tackled a zillion ways in a zillion languages and that it would be cool to see what you guys can come up with. I'd like to start the ball rolling with the following simple task: Problem: Given a string of text, trim from each end of the text each all occurrences of a given set of strings Sample input: Input string: "dog cat monkey dog horse dog" Strings that need to be trimmed from each end: { "dog", "cat" } Final output should be: " monkey dog horse" Final output should be " cat monkey dog horse " [Edit: My final sample output was incorrect, so to be fair I'll accept either answer] It's up to you whether you worry about case sensitivity. Let's see who can provide the smallest, neatest most elegant, most unique and/or fastest code. For those who feel like jumping on the "No Programming questions" bandwagon, please re-read the lounge guidelines. The point of this is to have fun, not to solve each other's programming issues.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
can we assume the input string is going to be tokenizable on ' ' ? or, should we expect things like "dogcatcotblahfoodog"
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Back in the Days of Yore we had a couple of small coding challenges such as the Lean and Mean comp. I was thinking that there are a ton of small, well defined problems that can be tackled a zillion ways in a zillion languages and that it would be cool to see what you guys can come up with. I'd like to start the ball rolling with the following simple task: Problem: Given a string of text, trim from each end of the text each all occurrences of a given set of strings Sample input: Input string: "dog cat monkey dog horse dog" Strings that need to be trimmed from each end: { "dog", "cat" } Final output should be: " monkey dog horse" Final output should be " cat monkey dog horse " [Edit: My final sample output was incorrect, so to be fair I'll accept either answer] It's up to you whether you worry about case sensitivity. Let's see who can provide the smallest, neatest most elegant, most unique and/or fastest code. For those who feel like jumping on the "No Programming questions" bandwagon, please re-read the lounge guidelines. The point of this is to have fun, not to solve each other's programming issues.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
How can anything be described as "Most Unique"? Unique is an absolute, it either is or isn't. Perhaps "Most Elegant" would be a more apposite epithet?
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Back in the Days of Yore we had a couple of small coding challenges such as the Lean and Mean comp. I was thinking that there are a ton of small, well defined problems that can be tackled a zillion ways in a zillion languages and that it would be cool to see what you guys can come up with. I'd like to start the ball rolling with the following simple task: Problem: Given a string of text, trim from each end of the text each all occurrences of a given set of strings Sample input: Input string: "dog cat monkey dog horse dog" Strings that need to be trimmed from each end: { "dog", "cat" } Final output should be: " monkey dog horse" Final output should be " cat monkey dog horse " [Edit: My final sample output was incorrect, so to be fair I'll accept either answer] It's up to you whether you worry about case sensitivity. Let's see who can provide the smallest, neatest most elegant, most unique and/or fastest code. For those who feel like jumping on the "No Programming questions" bandwagon, please re-read the lounge guidelines. The point of this is to have fun, not to solve each other's programming issues.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
How should whitespace at the ends of the input string be treated - does " cat dog " match or only "cat dog"?
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How should whitespace at the ends of the input string be treated - does " cat dog " match or only "cat dog"?
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How can anything be described as "Most Unique"? Unique is an absolute, it either is or isn't. Perhaps "Most Elegant" would be a more apposite epithet?
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
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Actually, he said earlier in the post "each end", so he is indicating that it is from both sides. What this shows - Chris sucks at coming up with program specifications. :)
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
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I thought it meant that he didn't like dogs or cats but horses and monkey's are OK?
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Back in the Days of Yore we had a couple of small coding challenges such as the Lean and Mean comp. I was thinking that there are a ton of small, well defined problems that can be tackled a zillion ways in a zillion languages and that it would be cool to see what you guys can come up with. I'd like to start the ball rolling with the following simple task: Problem: Given a string of text, trim from each end of the text each all occurrences of a given set of strings Sample input: Input string: "dog cat monkey dog horse dog" Strings that need to be trimmed from each end: { "dog", "cat" } Final output should be: " monkey dog horse" Final output should be " cat monkey dog horse " [Edit: My final sample output was incorrect, so to be fair I'll accept either answer] It's up to you whether you worry about case sensitivity. Let's see who can provide the smallest, neatest most elegant, most unique and/or fastest code. For those who feel like jumping on the "No Programming questions" bandwagon, please re-read the lounge guidelines. The point of this is to have fun, not to solve each other's programming issues.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris barely posted and already there is a design review, rejects from marketing, the devs want to shoot the PM. The PM is whistling nastily (Nagy you dog ... cat... horse... dog) and the mischievous ones reach for the assembler books. What we miss here is QA and we can start a death-march :laugh: EDIT-------------------------- I forgot legal as well. Legal department share its thoughts here with the assistance of the tech writers ;P
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No, it means "one or the other".
