joshhead / asciiparse

Coding challenge for a job application in 2014

asciiparse

Parse a particular format of ascii-art numbers

Installation and Usage

First, make sure Leiningen is installed. Then you can run the parser with lein run. The first argument should be the name of an input file in the correct format. The second argument may be an output file to write the formatted data to. If no output file is specified, the formatted data will be written to standard out.

The testdata folder contains some example inputs.

git clone https://github.com/joshhead/asciiparse.git
cd asciiparse
lein run testdata/wellformed.txt

Examples

Input file testdata/illegible.txt

    _  _     _  _  _  _  _ 
  | _| _||_| _ |_   ||_||_|
  ||_  _|  | _||_|  ||_| _ 
                           
                           
  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
                           
 _  _  _  _  _  _  _  _    
| || || || || || || ||_   |
|_||_||_||_||_||_||_| _|  |
                           
    _  _  _  _  _  _     _ 
|_||_|| || ||_   |  |  | _ 
  | _||_||_||_|  |  |  | _|
                           
    _  _     _  _  _  _  _ 
  | _| _||_| _ |_   ||_||_|
  ||_  _|  | _||_|  ||_| _ 

Printing to terminal:

$ lein run testdata/illegible.txt
1234?678? ILL
111111111 ERR
000000051
49006771? ILL
1234?678? ILL

Writing to file:

$ lein run testdata/illegible.txt out.txt

out.txt:

1234?678? ILL
111111111 ERR
000000051
49006771? ILL
1234?678? ILL

Bugs

The single argument version does not print to stdout when running from an uberjar.

lein uberjar
java -jar target/asciiparse-*-standalone.jar testdata/wellformed.txt

License

Copyright © 2014 Josh Headapohl

MIT License