nicolemon's solution to Acronym on the Haskell track

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Solution

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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).

Getting Started

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Running the tests

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stack test

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stack setup

Running GHCi

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Source

Julien Vanier https://github.com/monkbroc

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Tests.hs

{-# LANGUAGE RecordWildCards #-}

import Data.Foldable     (for_)
import Test.Hspec        (Spec, describe, it, shouldBe)
import Test.Hspec.Runner (configFastFail, defaultConfig, hspecWith)

import Acronym (abbreviate)

main :: IO ()
main = hspecWith defaultConfig {configFastFail = True} specs

specs :: Spec
specs = describe "abbreviate" $ for_ cases test
  where
    test Case {..} = it description $ abbreviate input `shouldBe` expected

data Case = Case { description :: String
                 , input       :: String
                 , expected    :: String
                 }

cases :: [Case]
cases = [ Case { description = "basic"
               , input       = "Portable Network Graphics"
               , expected    = "PNG"
               }
        , Case { description = "lowercase words"
               , input       = "Ruby on Rails"
               , expected    = "ROR"
               }
        -- Although this case was removed in specification 1.1.0,
        -- the Haskell track has chosen to keep it,
        -- since it makes the problem more interesting.
        , Case { description = "camelcase"
               , input       = "HyperText Markup Language"
               , expected    = "HTML"
               }
        , Case { description = "punctuation"
               , input       = "First In, First Out"
               , expected    = "FIFO"
               }
        , Case { description = "all caps word"
               , input       = "GNU Image Manipulation Program"
               , expected    = "GIMP"
               }
        , Case { description = "punctuation without whitespace"
               , input       = "Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor"
               , expected    = "CMOS"
               }
        ]

module Acronym (abbreviate) where

import Data.Char (isUpper, isAlpha, toUpper)

abbreviate :: String -> String
abbreviate xs = concatMap getAbbrev $ words (lettersOnly xs)

-- Get the corresponding abbreviation of a single word
-- First letter is always retrieved, and all the remaining capitalized letters
-- Unless all the letters are already capitalized, in which case it's already
-- an abbreviation so we only need the first letter
getAbbrev :: String -> String
getAbbrev s@(x:xs)
  | all isUpper s       = [x]
  | all isAlpha s       = toUpper x : filter isUpper xs
  | otherwise           = []

lettersOnly :: String -> String
lettersOnly [] = []
lettersOnly (x:xs)
  | isAlpha x   = x : lettersOnly xs
  | otherwise   = ' ' : lettersOnly xs

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