Today’s Programming Praxis problem is about Pig Latin. Our target is 11 lines (the size of the provided solution). Et’s-lay egin-bay.
We convert to pig latin by putting all consonants before the first vowel (or a w if there are none) at the end, followed by “ay”.
toPigLatin :: String -> String toPigLatin w = let (h, t) = break (flip elem "aeiouAEIOU") w in t ++ "-" ++ (if null h then "w" else h) ++ "ay"
And to go back we do the opposite. Put all the consonants in the postfix before the rest of the word. In this implementation I use the reverse of the word so I can easily remove the “ay” by pattern matching. Alternatively you can use something like takeWhile (/= ‘a’) h.
fromPigLatin :: String -> String fromPigLatin w = let ('y':'a':h, '-':t) = break (== '-') $ reverse w in reverse $ t ++ if h == "w" then "" else h
Since the provided solution has a function that both encodes and decodes, let’s make one too.
pigLatin :: String -> String pigLatin w = if elem '-' w then fromPigLatin w else toPigLatin w
And of course some tests to see if it works:
main :: IO () main = do print . map pigLatin $ words "art eagle start door spray prays wart" print . map pigLatin $ words "art-way eagle-way art-stay oor-day ay-spray ays-pray art-way"
And we’re done. 5 lines of code. Iece-pay of-way ake-cay.
