From: Trish Cayetano <trishacayetano@gmail.com>
Subject: How to check if letters are in a string?
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 02:00:38 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2015-07-18T02:00:38-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53a16384-fa63-479c-9421-553683dd6009@googlegroups.com> (raw)
Hi,
How do you check if (exact number of) letters are in a string?
1. This example should PASS because every letter is found in the string
LETTERS: HID
STRING: HIDDEN
2. This example should FAIL because the letters contain 2 N's but the string only has 1 N.
LETTERS: NINE
STRING: HIDDEN
Pangram doesn't seem to be a solution... because it considers #2 above as PASS.
This is because pangrams check for AT LEAST one letter (this means, it considers a pangram even if the letter is a duplicate)
Is there another way how to check if (exact number of) letters are in a string?
Thank you very much!
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Here is the sample code:
with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
with Ada.Strings.Maps; use Ada.Strings.Maps;
with Ada.Characters.Handling; use Ada.Characters.Handling;
procedure main is
function ispangram(txt: String) return Boolean is
lowtxt : String := To_Lower(txt);
letset,txtset : Character_Set;
begin
letset := To_Set("nine");
txtset := To_Set(lowtxt);
return (letset-txtset)=Null_Set;
end ispangram;
begin
put_line(Boolean'Image(ispangram("hidden")));
end main;
============================================
OUTPUT:
C:\Users\a0284014\Desktop\ada\pangram\obj\main
TRUE
[2015-07-18 16:52:42] process terminated successfully, elapsed time: 00.37s
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2015-07-18 9:00 Trish Cayetano [this message]
2015-07-18 10:23 ` How to check if letters are in a string? Nasser M. Abbasi
2015-07-18 10:52 ` Trish Cayetano
2015-07-18 11:07 ` Simon Clubley
2015-07-18 11:36 ` Björn Lundin
2015-07-18 12:48 ` Trish Cayetano
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