Abbreviations, easy
This task is an easier (to code) variant of the Rosetta Code task: Abbreviations, simple.
For this task, the following command table will be used:
Add ALTer BAckup Bottom CAppend Change SCHANGE CInsert CLAst COMPress COpy COUnt COVerlay CURsor DELete CDelete Down DUPlicate Xedit EXPand EXTract Find NFind NFINDUp NFUp CFind FINdup FUp FOrward GET Help HEXType Input POWerinput Join SPlit SPLTJOIN LOAD Locate CLocate LOWercase UPPercase LPrefix MACRO MErge MODify MOve MSG Next Overlay PARSE PREServe PURge PUT PUTD Query QUIT READ RECover REFRESH RENum REPeat Replace CReplace RESet RESTore RGTLEFT RIght LEft SAVE SET SHift SI SORT SOS STAck STATus TOP TRAnsfer Type Up
Notes concerning the above command table:
- it can be thought of as one long literal string (with blanks at end-of-lines)
- it may have superfluous blanks
- it may be in any order (not sorted), but the order (as shown) must be preserved
- it must be in a specific upper─ and mixed case sequence
- the user input(s) may be in any case (upper/lower/mixed)
- commands will be restricted to the Latin alphabet (A ──► Z, a ──► z)
- o, ov, ove, over, overL, overla are all acceptable abbreviations for overlay
- if there isn't a number after the command, then there isn't an abbreviation permitted
- Task
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- The command table needn't be verified/validated.
- Write a function to validate if the user "words" (given as input) are valid (in the command table).
- If the word is valid, then return the full uppercase version of that "word".
- If the word isn't valid, then return the lowercase string: *error* (7 characters).
- A blank input (or a null input) should return a null string.
- Show all output here.
- An example test case to be used for this task
For a user string of:
riG rePEAT copies put mo rest types fup. 6 poweRin
the computer program should return the string:
RIGHT REPEAT *error* PUT MOVE RESTORE *error* *error* *error* POWERINPUT
- Related tasks
Perl 6
This strictly follows the task requirements including the one "if there isn't a number after the command, then there isn't an abbreviation permitted". Its output is different than the example given but I would argue this is more correct according to the task requirements.
<lang perl6>my @commands = < Add ALTer BAckup Bottom CAppend Change SCHANGE CInsert CLAst COMPress COpy COUnt COVerlay CURsor DELete CDelete Down DUPlicate Xedit EXPand EXTract Find NFind NFINDUp NFUp CFind FINdup FUp FOrward GET Help HEXType Input POWerinput Join SPlit SPLTJOIN LOAD Locate CLocate LOWercase UPPercase LPrefix MACRO MErge MODify MOve MSG Next Overlay PARSE PREServe PURge PUT PUTD Query QUIT READ RECover REFRESH RENum REPeat Replace CReplace RESet RESTore RGTLEFT RIght LEft SAVE SET SHift SI SORT SOS STAck STATus TOP TRAnsfer Type Up >;
put <riG rePEAT copies put mo rest types fup. 6 poweRin>».fc.map(
{(my $command = @commands».fc.grep( $_ eq * )) ?? $command.uc !! '*error*' } ).join: ' ';</lang>
- Output:
*error* REPEAT *error* PUT *error* *error* *error* *error* *error* *error*
REXX
<lang>/*REXX program validates a user "word" against a "command table" with abbreviations.*/ parse arg uw /*obtain optional arguments from the CL*/ if uw= then uw= 'riG rePEAT copies put mo rest types fup. 6 poweRin' say 'user words: ' uw
@= 'Add ALTer BAckup Bottom CAppend Change SCHANGE CInsert CLAst COMPress COpy' ,
'COUnt COVerlay CURsor DELete CDelete Down DUPlicate Xedit EXPand EXTract Find' , 'NFind NFINDUp NFUp CFind FINdup FUp FOrward GET Help HEXType Input POWerinput' , 'Join SPlit SPLTJOIN LOAD Locate CLocate LOWercase UPPercase LPrefix MACRO' , 'MErge MOve MODify MSG Next Overlay PARSE PREServe PURge PUT PUTD Query QUIT' , 'READ RECover REFRESH RENum REPeat Replace CReplace RESet RESTore RGTLEFT' , 'RIght LEft SAVE SET SHift SI SORT SOS STAck STATus TOP TRAnsfer Type Up'
say 'full words: ' validate(uw) /*display the result(s) to the terminal*/ exit /*stick a fork in it, we're all done. */ /*──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────*/ validate: procedure expose @; arg x; upper @ /*ARG capitalizes all the X words. */
$= /*initialize the return string to null.*/ do j=1 to words(x); _=word(x, j) /*obtain a word from the X list. */ do k=1 to words(@); a=word(@, k) /*get a legitimate command name from @.*/ L=verify(_, 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', "M") /*maybe get abbrev's len.*/ if L==0 then L=length(_) /*0? Command name can't be abbreviated*/ if abbrev(a, _, L) then do; $=$ a; iterate j; end /*is valid abbrev?*/ end /*k*/ $=$ '*error*' /*processed the whole list, not valid. */ end /*j*/ return strip($) /*elide the superfluous leading blank. */</lang>
- output when using the default input:
user words: riG rePEAT copies put mo rest types fup. 6 poweRin full words: RIGHT REPEAT *error* PUT MOVE RESTORE *error* *error* *error* POWERINPUT