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CLI Tool: tr v3 — Delete Chars (-d) in Kotlin

Practice

Build a version of the Unix tr -d command. Given a list of lines and a string chars, remove every character that appears in chars from each line, then return the lines joined by newline characters (\n).

Notes: chars is a non-empty ASCII string whose characters are taken literally (no ranges). Upper and lower case are different characters. A line can become empty after deleting, and then it stays as an empty line in the output.

Function signature:

fun trDelete(lines: List<String>, chars: String): String

Example:

Input: lines = ["banana", "apple"], chars = "aeiou"

Output: "bnn\nppl"

When printed:
bnn
ppl

Put each character of chars into a HashSet<Char> for O(1) lookup. Walk every line and append characters that are NOT in the set.

The full solution:

class Solution {
    fun trDelete(lines: List<String>, chars: String): String {
        val set = HashSet<Char>()
        for (i in 0 until chars.length) {
            set.add(chars[i])
        }
        val result = ArrayList<String>()
        for (line in lines) {
            val sb = StringBuilder()
            for (j in 0 until line.length) {
                val ch = line[j]
                if (!set.contains(ch)) {
                    sb.append(ch)
                }
            }
            result.add(sb.toString())
        }
        return result.joinToString("\n")
    }
}

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CLI Tool: tr v3 — Delete Chars (-d) in Kotlin

Tr V3 in Kotlin