Task: Abbreviations, automatic




Go: package main

import(
    "bufio"
    "fmt"
    "os"
    "strings"
)

func distinctStrings(strs []string) []string {
    len := len(strs)
    set := make(map[string]bool, len)
    distinct := make([]string, 0, len)
    for _, str := range strs {
        if !set[str] {
            distinct = append(distinct, str)
            set[str] = true
        }
    }
    return distinct
}

func takeRunes(s string, n int) string {
    i := 0
    for j := range s {
        if i == n {
            return s[:j]
        }
        i++
    }
    return s
}

func main() {
    file, err := os.Open("days_of_week.txt")
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Unable to open file.")
        return
    }
    defer file.Close()
    reader := bufio.NewReader(file)
    lineCount := 0
    for {
        line, err := reader.ReadString('\n')
        if err != nil { 
            return
        }
        line = strings.TrimSpace(line)
        lineCount++
        if line == "" {
            fmt.Println()
            continue
        }
        days := strings.Fields(line)
        daysLen := len(days)
        if (len(days) != 7) {
            fmt.Println("There aren't 7 days in line", lineCount)
            return
        }
        if len(distinctStrings(days)) != 7 { 
            fmt.Println(" ∞ ", line)
            continue
        }
        for abbrevLen := 1; ; abbrevLen++ {
            abbrevs := make([]string, daysLen)
            for i := 0; i < daysLen; i++ {
                abbrevs[i] = takeRunes(days[i], abbrevLen)
            }
            if len(distinctStrings(abbrevs)) == 7 {
                fmt.Printf("%2d  %s\n", abbrevLen, line)
                break
            }
        }
    }
}


Java: import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

public class Abbreviations {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        Path path = Paths.get("days_of_week.txt");
        List<String> readAllLines = Files.readAllLines(path);
        for (int i = 0; i < readAllLines.size(); i++) {
            String line = readAllLines.get(i);
            if (line.length() == 0) continue;

            String[] days = line.split(" ");
            if (days.length != 7) throw new RuntimeException("There aren't 7 days on line " + (i + 1));

            Map<String, Integer> temp = new HashMap<>();
            for (String day : days) {
                Integer count = temp.getOrDefault(day, 0);
                temp.put(day, count + 1);
            }
            if (temp.size() < 7) {
                System.out.print(" ∞  ");
                System.out.println(line);
                continue;
            }

            int len = 1;
            while (true) {
                temp.clear();
                for (String day : days) {
                    String sd;
                    if (len >= day.length()) {
                        sd = day;
                    } else {
                        sd = day.substring(0, len);
                    }
                    Integer count = temp.getOrDefault(sd, 0);
                    temp.put(sd, count + 1);
                }
                if (temp.size() == 7) {
                    System.out.printf("%2d  %s\n", len, line);
                    break;
                }
                len++;
            }
        }
    }
}