Example of validate chain character repeated based of a parameter
Recently I had a interview job and practical test with a couple exercise, unfortunately I counld’t finish all the exercises in the time that I had, actually was only three exercise but I don’t know if is because I don’t code to much these days but I feel in due to finish this exercise for my own. I will post only the first two because the third one it was basically create a api with consuming a specifcs url that I don’t remember.
The first exercise requested a function with two parameters, one is a chain o characters or string and the second parameter a int number. Based of the second parameter, you should validate how many characters of the chain should be repeat. For example:
input:
param1 = "aaabbbcccddff"
param2 = 2
output:"aabbccddff"
input:
param1 = "aaabbbcccddff"
param2 = 1
output:"abcdf"
input:
param1 = "aaabbbcccddff"
param2 = 3
output:"aaabbbcccddff"
class Program
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string chain = "aaabbbccccddff";
int num = 2;
Program ob = new Program();
IList<char> myList = ob.myFunc(chain, num);
foreach(var x in myList.ToList())
{
Console.Write(x.ToString());
}
}
public IList<char> myFunc(string chain, int num) {
char a = ' ';
char b = ' ';
int tempCount = 1;
IList<char> myList = new List<char>();
foreach(char i in chain)
{
char temp = i;
a = b;
b = temp;
if (a != b)
tempCount = 1;
else
tempCount++;
if (tempCount <= num)
myList.Add(temp);
}
return myList.ToList();
}
}result
aabbccddff