rcolinray's solution to Anagram on the Clojure track

Instructions

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Solution

Given a word and a list of possible anagrams, select the correct sublist.

Given "listen" and a list of candidates like "enlists" "google" "inlets" "banana" the program should return a list containing "inlets".

Source

Inspired by the Extreme Startup game https://github.com/rchatley/extreme_startup

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anagram_test.clj

(ns anagram-test
  (:require [clojure.test :refer [deftest is]]
            anagram))

(deftest no-matches
  (is (= []
         (anagram/anagrams-for "diaper" ["hello" "world" "zombies" "pants"]))))

(deftest detect-simple-anagram
  (is (= ["tan"] (anagram/anagrams-for "ant" ["tan" "stand" "at"]))))

(deftest does-not-confuse-different-duplicates
  (is (= [] (anagram/anagrams-for "galea" ["eagle"]))))

(deftest eliminate-anagram-subsets
  (is (= [] (anagram/anagrams-for "good" ["dog" "goody"]))))

(deftest detect-anagram
  (is (= ["inlets"]
         (let [coll ["enlists" "google" "inlets" "banana"]]
           (anagram/anagrams-for "listen" coll)))))

(deftest multiple-anagrams
  (is (= ["gallery" "regally" "largely"]
         (let [coll ["gallery" "ballerina" "regally"
                     "clergy"  "largely"   "leading"]]
           (anagram/anagrams-for "allergy" coll)))))

(deftest case-insensitive-anagrams
  (is (= ["Carthorse"]
         (let [coll ["cashregister" "Carthorse" "radishes"]]
           (anagram/anagrams-for "Orchestra" coll)))))

(deftest word-is-not-own-anagram
  (is (= [] (anagram/anagrams-for "banana" ["banana"]))))

(deftest capital-word-is-not-own-anagram
  (is (= [] (anagram/anagrams-for "BANANA" ["banana"]))))

(ns anagram
  (require [clojure.string :as string]))

(defn- anagrams?
  "Given two words, this function tests if they are
  anagrams of each other."
  [word-one word-two]
  (let [lower-one (string/lower-case word-one)
        lower-two (string/lower-case word-two)]
    (and (not= lower-one lower-two)
         (= (sort lower-one)
            (sort lower-two)))))

(defn anagrams-for
  "Given a target word and a list of words, this function
  determines if the list of words contains an anagram of
  the target."
  [word word-list]
  (filter (partial anagrams? word) word-list))

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