Code100 Puzzle: Code Block

codeblock-puzzle.md

Puzzle: Event Block

The challenge here is to turn this JSON object:

{
    "columns": 80,
    "padChar": "·",
    "events": [
        { "name": "CODE100", "location": "Zagreb, Croatia", "date": "29.11.2023" },
        { "name": "LIVE", "date": "ongoing" },
        { "name": "Coffee With Developers", "location": "various", "date": "ongoing"} ,
        { "name": "World Congress","location": "Berlin, Germany", "date":"17-19.07.2024" }
    ]
}

Into a block like this:

································································
· CODE100 ············ Zagreb, Croatia ··········· 29.11.2023 ·
· LIVE ··············································· ongoing ·
· Coffee With Developers ·· various ·················· ongoing ·
· World Congress ······ Berlin, Germany ········ 17-19.07.2024 ·
································································

The rules are that the location needs to be centered in the 80 columns wide block, the name on the left and the date on the right. Each need to have spaces surrounding them. (and no, this demo isn’t the right amount of chars).

Happy coding!

Explain or link to your solutions in the comment section here.

Some initial thoughts on this while having breakfast...might not fit all edge cases.....is the whole data set available?
.https://gist.github.com/dk5ax/ca1d80b011a029f361cba3667682d9e8

This is the whole dataset. This is cool, but misses the padding around the data parts and the upper and downer line

My solution: https://github.com/AlenOblak/code-100/blob/master/event-block/solve.php

My Solution with Python: https://github.com/surfineer/wearedevelopers_code100_puzzles/blob/main/puzzles/eventblock/solution.py
Would appreciate some feedback :)

My simple solution in Go: https://gist.github.com/8lall0/80bfde652581cee6cc153dd272f2b7ff
Feedback much appreciated!

Output looks like it should. Can't comment on Go, as I don't use it though. Anyone?

My solution: https://github.com/AlenOblak/code-100/blob/master/event-block/solve.php

Works here! Well done.

I really don't like counting things and halving them and adding things to make sure things turn out right and then hoping I can explain why I added 1 or 2 to the right place.

Anyway, I got there in the end and it was maybe more fun than I'm letting on: https://gist.github.com/philnash/26dd64fc9896b982392818089e0619f4