[Community Puzzle] CGS Minifier

Puzzles
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Coding Games and Programming Challenges to Code Better

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2

I pass all validators in IDE, but it fails on the submit it fails on 4_validator :frowning_face:

Any advice ?

3

I had a similar problem and, in my case, it was that there can be uppercase characters in variable names (consider a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and “_”).

4

I failed validator 4 too, with a non-regex based solutions, anyone can give hints on what are the inputs for that validator please ? ^^

5

No idea. The puzzle is too old and I don’t see a way to access its contribution view.

I don’t use any regex in my solution code either.

If needed, you may send me your code via private message and I’ll take a look.

6

Several misconceptions in descriptions and lack of clarity

  • It is not mentioned whether nested quotes are to be expected → 
'Next character is a quote\' !!! '
  • Mention of tabulation should be removed, otherwise we are expected to be given such strings
'This sentence contains many \t\t\t\t\t\t characters !!!'

  • No mention as to whether dollar signs alone and variables enclosed between dollar signs will appear in quotes too. Presumably so, test cases for these should be added

    $dollar$ in 'quotes $dollar'

    and

    Single dollar sign in 'quotes $cuz why not?'
7

Without access to the validators, we cannot say for sure that certain situations appear in the cases or not. It’s not appropriate to amend the statement based on the visible tests only.

And it doesn’t matter, because we don’t even have a way to amend the puzzle - probably only CG staff can do it.

8

The following custom case may help those who fail Validator 4 debug their code:

Input

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print   '   George   printed   the instructions   ';
$b$   =   '   George   lost   the book   ';
$z$;
print   $b$;
$x$;
print   '   Ada   printed   the script   ';

Output

print'   George   printed   the instructions   ';$a$='   George   lost   the book   ';$b$;print$a$;$c$;print'   Ada   printed   the script   ';