HackerRank Template in Elixir

May 27, 2019

A colleague of mine sent me a link to a hacker rank challenge called Two Character

While giving it a try, I noticed no Elixir solution (yet!). Here’s what the template solution looks like

defmodule Solution do
#Enter your code here. Read input from STDIN. Print output to STDOUT
end

Here is how I am structuring my answer.

defmodule Solution do
  def go() do
    num = input(:int)
    text = input(:string)
    IO.puts("INPUTS #{num} and #{text}")
  end

  def input(:string), do: IO.read(:line) |> String.trim()
  def input(:int), do: input(:string) |> String.to_integer()
end

# Now run your code
Solution.go()

When you run against HackerRank, you (properly get)

Notice the OUTPUT properly captured the input (i.e. the code is working as expected, but not yet as desired).

Now go forth and HackerRank!!!