craigmaloney's solution to Raindrops on the Scheme track

Instructions

Test suite

Solution

Convert a number to a string, the contents of which depend on the number's factors.

If the number has 3 as a factor, output 'Pling'.
If the number has 5 as a factor, output 'Plang'.
If the number has 7 as a factor, output 'Plong'.
If the number does not have 3, 5, or 7 as a factor, just pass the number's digits straight through.

Examples

28's factors are 1, 2, 4, 7, 14, 28.
- In raindrop-speak, this would be a simple "Plong".
30's factors are 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 15, 30.
- In raindrop-speak, this would be a "PlingPlang".
34 has four factors: 1, 2, 17, and 34.
- In raindrop-speak, this would be "34".

Source

A variation on a famous interview question intended to weed out potential candidates. http://jumpstartlab.com

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raindrops-test.scm

;; Load SRFI-64 lightweight testing specification
(use-modules (srfi srfi-64))

;; Suppress log file output. To write logs, comment out the following line:
(module-define! (resolve-module '(srfi srfi-64)) 'test-log-to-file #f)

(add-to-load-path (dirname (current-filename)))

(use-modules (raindrops))

(test-begin "raindrops")

(test-equal "test-1"
            "1"
            (convert 1))

(test-equal "test-3"
            "Pling"
            (convert 3))

(test-equal "test-5"
            "Plang"
            (convert 5))

(test-equal "test-7"
            "Plong"
            (convert 7))
(test-equal "test-6"
            "Pling"
            (convert 6))
(test-equal "test-9"
            "Pling"
            (convert 9))
(test-equal "test-10"
            "Plang"
            (convert 10))
(test-equal "test-15"
            "PlingPlang"
            (convert 15))
(test-equal "test-21"
            "PlingPlong"
            (convert 21))
(test-equal "test-25"
            "Plang"
            (convert 25))
(test-equal "test-35"
            "PlangPlong"
            (convert 35))
(test-equal "test-49"
            "Plong"
            (convert 49))
(test-equal "test-52"
            "52"
            (convert 52))
(test-equal "test-105"
            "PlingPlangPlong"
            (convert 105))
(test-equal "test-12121"
            "12121"
            (convert 12121))


(test-end "raindrops")

(define-module (raindrops)
  #:export (convert))

(define (factor number)
  (define (*factor divisor number)
    (if (>= divisor number)
      (list number)
      (if (= (remainder number divisor) 0)
        (cons divisor (*factor (+ 1 divisor) number ))
        (*factor (+ divisor 1) number))))
  (*factor 1 number))

(define (convert number)
  (let ((outstring "")
        (factors (factor number)))
    (if (memq 3 factors)
      (set! outstring (string-append outstring "Pling")))
    (if (memq 5 factors)
      (set! outstring (string-append outstring "Plang")))
    (if (memq 7 factors)
      (set! outstring (string-append outstring "Plong")))

    (if (string=? outstring "")
      (number->string number)
      outstring
      )
    )
  )

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