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LESSON 388 OF 415 · PROJECTS: COMMAND-LINE TOOLS

CLI Tool: grep v3 — Invert Match in Swift

Practice

Build the -v flag of the Unix grep command. Given a list of lines and a search pattern, return all lines that DO NOT contain pattern as a substring (case-sensitive). Return the remaining lines (the ones that do not contain the pattern), in their original order, joined by newline characters (\n).

Function signature:

func grepInvert(_ lines: [String], _ pattern: String) -> String

Example:

Input:
pattern = "err"
lines = ["error", "ok", "another error", "fine"]

Output: "ok\nfine"

When printed:
ok
fine

If every line contains the pattern, return the empty string "".


Same as grep v1 but flip the condition: keep the lines where !line.contains(pattern) is true, then return result.joined(separator: "\n").

The full solution:
class Solution {
    func grepInvert(_ lines: [String], _ pattern: String) -> String {
        var result = [String]()
        for line in lines {
            if !line.contains(pattern) {
                result.append(line)
            }
        }
        return result.joined(separator: "\n")
    }
}

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