Gaurav63's solution to Acronym on the Go track

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Solution

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 the tests

To run the tests run the command go test from within the exercise directory.

If the test suite contains benchmarks, you can run these with the --bench and --benchmem flags:

go test -v --bench . --benchmem

Keep in mind that each reviewer will run benchmarks on a different machine, with different specs, so the results from these benchmark tests may vary.

Further information

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Source

Julien Vanier https://github.com/monkbroc

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

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acronym_test.go

package acronym

import (
	"testing"
)

func TestAcronym(t *testing.T) {
	for _, test := range stringTestCases {
		actual := Abbreviate(test.input)
		if actual != test.expected {
			t.Errorf("Acronym test [%s], expected [%s], actual [%s]", test.input, test.expected, actual)
		}
	}
}

func BenchmarkAcronym(b *testing.B) {
	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
		for _, test := range stringTestCases {
			Abbreviate(test.input)
		}
	}
}

cases_test.go

package acronym

// Source: exercism/problem-specifications
// Commit: 5ae1dba Acronym canonical-data: Remove redundant test case
// Problem Specifications Version: 1.3.0

type acronymTest struct {
	input    string
	expected string
}

var stringTestCases = []acronymTest{
	{
		input:    "Portable Network Graphics",
		expected: "PNG",
	},
	{
		input:    "Ruby on Rails",
		expected: "ROR",
	},
	{
		input:    "First In, First Out",
		expected: "FIFO",
	},
	{
		input:    "GNU Image Manipulation Program",
		expected: "GIMP",
	},
	{
		input:    "Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor",
		expected: "CMOS",
	},
}

package acronym

import (
	"strings"
	"unicode"
)

func Abbreviate(s string) string {
	result := ""
	words := strings.FieldsFunc(s, Split)
	for _, w := range words {
		result = result + strings.ToUpper(string(w[0]))
	}
	return result
}

func Split(r rune) bool {
	return !unicode.IsLetter(r) && !unicode.IsNumber(r)
}

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