VLNString
SRM 226 · 2005-01-05 · by the_one_smiley
Problem Statement
An acronym is a sequence of characters that is used to refer to something with a very long name. An acronym is generated from a long name by capitalizing the first letter of every word in the name and concatenating them together. There are three exceptions: the common words "and", "the", and "of" are ignored when generating the acronym. In this problem, a word is defined as one or more non-space characters preceded by either a space or the beginning of the string and followed by either a space or the end of the string. Write a class VLNString with a method makeAcronym that takes a
Notes
- longName may contain leading and trailing spaces, and there may be more than one space between words.
- The return value may be an empty string.
Constraints
- longName will contain between 1 and 50 characters, inclusive.
- longName will contain only lowercase English letters ('a' to 'z') and space characters.
"dance dance revolution" Returns: "DDR"
" return of the king " Returns: "RK"
"the united states of america" Returns: "USA"
" of the and " Returns: ""
"s p a m" Returns: "SPAM"
Submissions are judged against all 61 archived test cases, of which 5 are shown here. Case numbers match the judge’s.
Language: C++17 · define a public class VLNString with a public method string makeAcronym(string longName) · 61 test cases · 2 s / 256 MB per case