angelikatyborska's solution to Acronym on the Elixir track

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Note:

This solution was written on an old version of Exercism. The tests below might not correspond to the solution code, and the exercise may have changed since this code was written.

Convert a phrase to its acronym.

Techies love their TLA (Three Letter Acronyms)!

Help generate some jargon by writing a program that converts a long name like Portable Network Graphics to its acronym (PNG).

Running tests

Execute the tests with:

$ elixir acronym_test.exs

Pending tests

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# @tag :pending
test "shouting" do
  assert Bob.hey("WATCH OUT!") == "Whoa, chill out!"
end

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# ExUnit.configure exclude: :pending, trace: true

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Source

Julien Vanier https://github.com/monkbroc

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acronym_test.exs

if !System.get_env("EXERCISM_TEST_EXAMPLES") do
  Code.load_file("acronym.exs", __DIR__)
end

ExUnit.start()
ExUnit.configure(exclude: :pending, trace: true)

defmodule AcronymTest do
  use ExUnit.Case

  test "it produces acronyms from title case" do
    assert Acronym.abbreviate("Portable Networks Graphic") === "PNG"
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "it produces acronyms from lower case" do
    assert Acronym.abbreviate("Ruby on Rails") === "ROR"
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "it produces acronyms from inconsistent case" do
    assert Acronym.abbreviate("HyperText Markup Language") === "HTML"
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "it ignores punctuation" do
    assert Acronym.abbreviate("First in, First out") === "FIFO"
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "it produces acronyms ignoring punctuation and casing" do
    assert Acronym.abbreviate("Complementary Metal-Oxide semiconductor") === "CMOS"
  end
end

defmodule Acronym do
  @doc """
  Generate an acronym from a string.
  "This is a string" => "TIAS"
  """
  @spec abbreviate(String.t()) :: String.t()
  def abbreviate(string) do
    string |>
    String.split(~r/[\s-]|(?=[A-Z])/) |>
    Enum.map(&(&1 |> String.at(0) |> String.upcase)) |>
    Enum.join
  end
end

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