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Reddit Daily Programmer - Challenge #158 [Intermediate] Part 1 - The ASCII Architect
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import java.util.Arrays; | |
public class Test { | |
public static void main(String[] args) { | |
final String TEMPLATE = "++--***..."; | |
final String SPACES = " "; | |
final String INPUT = args[0]; | |
final String[] LETTERS = new String[]{null, "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j"}; | |
String output = ""; | |
String[] chars = INPUT.split(""); | |
for (String c : chars) { | |
if(!c.isEmpty()) | |
if(c.matches("^[0-9]$")){ | |
output += SPACES.substring(0, Integer.parseInt(c)); | |
} else { | |
output += TEMPLATE.substring(0, Arrays.asList(LETTERS).indexOf(c)) + "\n"; | |
} | |
} | |
System.out.println(Test.transpose(output)); | |
} | |
public static String transpose(String input){ | |
String[] lines = input.split("\n"); | |
String result = ""; | |
for(int i = 20; i >= 0; i--){ | |
for(String line : lines){ | |
if(line.length() >= i + 1){ | |
result += line.charAt(i); | |
} else { | |
result += " "; | |
} | |
} | |
result += "\n"; | |
} | |
return result; | |
} | |
} |
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