LESSON 618 OF 677 · PROJECTS: COMMAND-LINE TOOLS

CLI Tool: grep v2 — Case-Insensitive Match

Practice

Build the -i flag of the Unix grep command. Given a list of lines and a search pattern, return all lines that contain pattern as a substring, ignoring letter case. Return the matching lines joined by newline characters (\n).

Function signature:

def grepCaseInsensitive(lines: Array[String], pattern: String): String

Example:

Input:
pattern = "ERR"
lines = ["Error: 1", "ok"]

Output: "Error: 1"

When printed:
Error: 1

The matching is case-insensitive but the original line (preserving its original casing) is returned. If no lines match, return the empty string "". The lines contain only ASCII characters.

Lowercase the pattern once, then for each line check line.toLowerCase().contains(lowerPattern). Collect the ORIGINAL line on a hit.

The full solution:

class Solution {
    def grepCaseInsensitive(lines: Array[String], pattern: String): String = {
        val result = scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer[String]()
        val lowerPattern = pattern.toLowerCase()
        for (line <- lines) {
            if (line.toLowerCase().contains(lowerPattern)) {
                result += line
            }
        }
        return result.mkString("\n")
    }
}

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