lujanfernaud's solution to Word Count on the Elixir track

Instructions

Test suite

Solution

Given a phrase, count the occurrences of each word in that phrase.

For example for the input "olly olly in come free"

olly: 2
in: 1
come: 1
free: 1

Words are compared case-insensitively. The keys are lowercase.

Running tests

Execute the tests with:

$ mix test

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

This is a classic toy problem, but we were reminded of it by seeing it in the Go Tour.

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test_helper.exs

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

word_count_test.exs

defmodule WordCountTest do
  use ExUnit.Case

  test "count one word" do
    assert WordCount.count("word") == %{"word" => 1}
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "count one of each" do
    expected = %{"one" => 1, "of" => 1, "each" => 1}
    assert WordCount.count("one of each") == expected
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "count multiple occurrences" do
    expected = %{"one" => 1, "fish" => 4, "two" => 1, "red" => 1, "blue" => 1}
    assert WordCount.count("one fish two fish red fish blue fish") == expected
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "ignore punctuation" do
    expected = %{"car" => 1, "carpet" => 1, "as" => 1, "java" => 1, "javascript" => 1}
    assert WordCount.count("car : carpet as java : javascript!!&@$%^&") == expected
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "include numbers" do
    expected = %{"testing" => 2, "1" => 1, "2" => 1}
    assert WordCount.count("testing, 1, 2 testing") == expected
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "hyphens" do
    expected = %{"co-operative" => 1}
    assert WordCount.count("co-operative") == expected
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "ignore underscores" do
    expected = %{"two" => 1, "words" => 1}
    assert WordCount.count("two_words") == expected
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "normalize case" do
    expected = %{"go" => 3}
    assert WordCount.count("go Go GO") == expected
  end

  @tag :pending
  test "German" do
    expected = %{"götterfunken" => 1, "schöner" => 1, "freude" => 1}
    assert WordCount.count("Freude schöner Götterfunken") == expected
  end
end

defmodule WordCount do
  @non_word_characters_regexp ~r/[^-[:word:]]|_/u

  @doc """
  Count the number of words in the sentence.

  Words are compared case-insensitively.
  """
  @spec count(String.t()) :: map
  def count(sentence) do
    sentence
    |> String.downcase()
    |> String.split(@non_word_characters_regexp, trim: true)
    |> Enum.reduce(%{}, &word_with_count(&1, &2))
  end

  defp word_with_count(word, acc) do
    Map.update(acc, word, 1, fn count -> count + 1 end)
  end
end

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