tivasyk's solution to Leap on the Bash track

Instructions

Test suite

Solution

Given a year, report if it is a leap year.

The tricky thing here is that a leap year in the Gregorian calendar occurs:

on every year that is evenly divisible by 4
  except every year that is evenly divisible by 100
    unless the year is also evenly divisible by 400

For example, 1997 is not a leap year, but 1996 is. 1900 is not a leap year, but 2000 is.

If your language provides a method in the standard library that does this look-up, pretend it doesn't exist and implement it yourself.

Notes

Though our exercise adopts some very simple rules, there is more to learn!

For a delightful, four minute explanation of the whole leap year phenomenon, go watch this youtube video.

Run the tests with:

bats leap_test.sh

After the first test(s) pass, continue by commenting out or removing the skip annotations prepending other tests.

Source

JavaRanch Cattle Drive, exercise 3 http://www.javaranch.com/leap.jsp

External utilities

Bash is a language to write scripts that works closely with various system utilities, like sed, awk, date and even other programming languages, like Python. This track does not restrict the usage of these utilities, and as long as your solution is portable between systems and does not require installing third party applications, feel free to use them to solve the exercise.

For an extra challenge, if you would like to have a better understanding of the language, try to re-implement the solution in pure Bash, without using any external tools.

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

leap_test.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

@test 'year not divisible by 4: common year' {
  #skip
  run bash leap.sh 2015

  [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
  [ "$output" = 'false' ]
}

@test 'year divisible by 4, not divisible by 100: leap year' {
  skip
  run bash leap.sh 1996

  [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
  [ "$output" = 'true' ]
}

@test 'year divisible by 100, not divisible by 400: common year' {
  skip
  run bash leap.sh 2100

  [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
  [ "$output" = 'false' ]
}

@test 'year divisible by 400: leap year' {
  skip
  run bash leap.sh 2000

  [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
  [ "$output" = 'true' ]
}

@test 'No input should return an error' {
  skip
  run bash leap.sh

  [ "$status" -eq 1 ]
  [ "$output" = 'Usage: leap.sh <year>' ]
}

@test 'Too many arguments should return an error' {
  skip
  run bash leap.sh 2016 4562 4566

  [ "$status" -eq 1 ]
  [ "$output" = 'Usage: leap.sh <year>' ]
}

@test 'Float number input should return an error' {
  skip
  run bash leap.sh 2016.54

  [ "$status" -eq 1 ]
  [ "$output" = 'Usage: leap.sh <year>' ]
}

@test 'Alpha input should return an error' {
  skip
  run bash leap.sh 'abcd'

  [ "$status" -eq 1 ]
  [ "$output" = 'Usage: leap.sh <year>' ]
}

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# tivasyk <tivasyk@gmail.com>

show_help() {
    local NAME
    NAME=$(basename "$0")
    cat <<EOF
Usage: $NAME <year>
EOF
}

main () {
    # If not one argument only, or if the argument contains anything but digits...
    if [[ "$#" -ne 1 || ! -z "${1//[0-9]/}" ]]; then
        show_help
        exit 1
    fi

    # Check for leapiness
    if [[ $(( $1 % 400)) -eq 0 || ( $(( $1 % 4 )) -eq 0 && $(( $1 % 100 )) -ne 0 ) ]] ; then
        echo "true"
    else
        echo "false"
    fi
}

main "$@"

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tivasyk's Reflection

well, figuring out that test for "leapiness" line was definitely a pain =)

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