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Tournament
Tally the results of a small football competition.
Based on an input file containing which team played against which and what the outcome was, create a file with a table like this:
Team | MP | W | D | L | P
Devastating Donkeys | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7
Allegoric Alaskans | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6
Blithering Badgers | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3
Courageous Californians | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1
What do those abbreviations mean?
- MP: Matches Played
- W: Matches Won
- D: Matches Drawn (Tied)
- L: Matches Lost
- P: Points
A win earns a team 3 points. A draw earns 1. A loss earns 0.
The outcome should be ordered by points, descending. In case of a tie, teams are ordered alphabetically.
Input
Your tallying program will receive input that looks like:
Allegoric Alaskans;Blithering Badgers;win
Devastating Donkeys;Courageous Californians;draw
Devastating Donkeys;Allegoric Alaskans;win
Courageous Californians;Blithering Badgers;loss
Blithering Badgers;Devastating Donkeys;loss
Allegoric Alaskans;Courageous Californians;win
The result of the match refers to the first team listed. So this line
Allegoric Alaskans;Blithering Badgers;win
Means that the Allegoric Alaskans beat the Blithering Badgers.
This line:
Courageous Californians;Blithering Badgers;loss
Means that the Blithering Badgers beat the Courageous Californians.
And this line:
Devastating Donkeys;Courageous Californians;draw
Means that the Devastating Donkeys and Courageous Californians tied.
Run the tests with:
bats tournament_test.sh
After the first test(s) pass, continue by commenting out or removing the
[[ $BATS_RUN_SKIPPED == true ]] || skip
annotations prepending other tests.
To run all tests, including the ones with skip annotations, run:
BATS_RUN_SKIPPED=true bats tournament_test.sh
External utilities
Bash is a language to write "scripts" -- programs that can call
external tools, such as
sed,
awk,
date
and even programs written in other programming languages,
like Python.
This track does not restrict the usage of these utilities, and as long
as your solution is portable between systems and does not require
installation of third party applications, feel free to use them to solve
the exercise.
For an extra challenge, if you would like to have a better understanding
of the language, try to re-implement the solution in pure Bash,
without using any external tools. Note that there are some types of
problems that bash cannot solve, such as performing floating point
arithmetic and manipulating dates: for those, you must call out to an
external tool.
Submitting Incomplete Solutions
It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.