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June 13, 2018 13:31
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Solution to problem presented at https://dev.to/albinotonnina/how-to-lose-a-it-job-in-10-minutes-35pi
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const cities = ['Tokyo', 'London', 'Rome', 'Donlon', 'Kyoto', 'Paris'] | |
// Initially I misunderstood the problem and assumed that the letters | |
// could be reconfigured in any order to be a match | |
function sameLetters(city1, city2) { | |
if (city1.length !== city2.length) return false | |
for (let i = 0; i < city1.length; ++i) { | |
if (!city2.includes(city1[i])) return false | |
city2 = city2.replace(city1[i], '') | |
} | |
return city2.length === 0 | |
} | |
// But as I continued to read the blog post I learned that it | |
// is just a rotation instead | |
function isRotated(city1, city2) { | |
if (city1.length !== city2.length) return false | |
let rotated = city2 | |
for (let i = 0; i < city2.length; ++i) { | |
if (city1 === rotated) return true | |
rotated = rotated.slice(1) + rotated[0] | |
} | |
return false | |
} | |
const matches = [] | |
let remaining = cities | |
while (remaining.length > 0) { | |
matches[matches.length] = [] | |
const currentCity = remaining[0].toLowerCase() | |
remaining.forEach(city => { | |
if (isRotated(currentCity, city.toLowerCase())) matches[matches.length-1].push(city) | |
}) | |
remaining = remaining.filter(city => !matches[matches.length-1].includes(city)) | |
} | |
console.log(matches) |
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