FizzBuzz Station

Posted by oliver
Fri, 02/29/2008 - 01:59

Uh oh! I overthought fizzbuzz:


The following Ruby snippets aren’t quite the same as the automaton above (this Haskell version is actually closest to that), but here’s a couple of Regexp solutions in a style that I haven’t seen before. They have a kind of Turing-tape flavor to them.


puts (1..100).map { |n| '1'*n+":#{n}\n" }.join.
  gsub(/^(1{5})*:/,'\0Buzz').gsub(/^(1{3})*:/,'Fizz').gsub(/.*:|(z)\d+/,'\1')

puts (1..100).map { |n| 'x'*n+"#{n}\n" }.join.
  gsub(/^(xxx)*\d/,'Fizz').gsub(/[05]$/,'Buzz').gsub(/^x*|\d*(.+?)\d*/,'\1')

I’m not much of a golfer, so please let me know in the comments if you tighten them up any.

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Comments

Vidar Hokstad - Sat, 03/15/2008 - 18:36

I'm a sucker for nice diagrams - did you do it manually or is it generated with a tool?

oliver - Sun, 03/16/2008 - 21:22

Thanks, Vidar! I make most of my illustrations, including this one, with Omnigraffle — in fact, it’s one of the reasons that I switched back to the Mac. Nothing automated, just lots of tweaking — which I enjoyed, because I’m trying to learn the rudiments of graphic design, and I usually learn things better if I do them by hand before trying to automate them.

Vidar Hokstad - Mon, 03/17/2008 - 22:10

... it's actually the only diagram editor I actually like using. It seemed like that type of visualization of a state machine would be pretty interesting to automate, though, so I was curious if anyone had done it :)

Anonymous - Tue, 03/04/2008 - 16:47

Brainfuck: http://koizuka.nowa.jp/entry/146a3d3b33

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