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Posted on Jul 23, 2019

Daily Challenge #22 - Simple Pig Latin

#challenge

The goal of today's challenge is to translate English into Pig Latin. This challenge comes from user2505876 on CodeWars.

Write a function that moves the first letter of each word to the end of the word, then add "ay". Leave punctuation untouched.

Examples:
pig_it('Pig latin is cool') # igPay atinlay siay oolcay
pig_it('Hello world !') # elloHay orldway !

This one is somewhat tricky. I bet it would be even harder to turn Pig Latin back to English, I'd love to see someone try it~!

Oodgay ucklay, appyhay odingcay!

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Top comments (18)

Alvaro Montoro • Jul 23 '19

CSS (kind of)

Separate the words in <span>s, and add the class "piglatin" to the container.

.piglatin span {
  display: inline-block;
  position: relative;
  margin-right: 1em;
}

.piglatin span::first-letter {
  float: right;
}

.piglatin span::after {
  content: "ay";
  position: absolute;
  left: 100%;
}

The idea is based on floating the first letter to the right using the pseudo-class :first-letter, and then adding "ay" using the pseudo-element ::after... although it doesn't work well with punctuation :-/

You can see a demo running on CodePen:

Alvaro Montoro • Jul 23 '19

Screen readers still read the sentences right, even when visually they are in pig latin.

Corey Alexander • Jul 25 '19

So happy to see another CSS solution! It's been awhile lol

Hell of a job!

Alvaro Montoro • Jul 25 '19

Yes. The last ones have been impossible. But 4-5 out of 22 is not that bad :P

Florin Pop • Jul 24 '19

Oh, this is nice! ☺️

La blatte • Jul 23 '19 • Edited

Here goes a JavaScript oneliner

const pigIt = (s) => s.split(' ').map(e=>e.match(/\w/)?`${e.slice(1)}${e[0]}ay`:e).join(' ')

pigIt('Pig Latin is cool');
"igPay atinLay siay oolcay"

pigIt('Hello world !');
"elloHay orldway !"

And just for fun, an unPigIt oneliner too!

const unPigIt = (s) => s.split(' ').map(e=>e.match(/\w/)?e[e.length-3]+e.slice(0,-3):e).join(' ')

unPigIt('igPay atinLay siay oolcay');
"Pig Latin is cool"

unPigIt('elloHay orldway !');
"Hello world !"

Peter Cruckshank • Jul 24 '19

Nailed it 👌🔥🔥

Yozen Hernandez • Jul 23 '19

Perl one-liner as well

say join(" ", map { s/(\w)(\w+)/\2\1ay/r } split /\s/, "Pig latin is cool")

#igPay atinlay siay oolcay

This one handles leaving punctuation alone, so this would work as well:

say join(" ", map { s/(\w)(\w+)/\2\1ay/r } split /\s/, '"Pig" latin is cool')

#"igPay" atinlay siay oolcay

E. Choroba • Jul 23 '19

No need to split and join:

say '"Pig" latin is cool' =~ s/(\w)(\w+)/$2$1ay/gr;

Yozen Hernandez • Jul 23 '19

Of course. Thanks!

Aadi Bajpai • Jul 23 '19 • Edited

python one liner ftw.

print(*map(lambda x: f'{x[1:]+x[0]}ay' if x.isalpha() else x, input().split()))

>>> print(*map(lambda x: f'{x[1:]+x[0]}ay' if x.isalpha() else x, input().split()))
Pig latin is cool
igPay atinlay siay oolcay

Kasper Meyer • Jul 23 '19 • Edited

Ruby 2.6

require "minitest/autorun"

class PigLatinTranslator
  LATINATOR = -> (word) { word =~ /\w/ ? "#{word[1..-1]}#{word[0]}ay" : word }

  def self.translate sentence
    sentence.split(' ').map(&LATINATOR).join(' ')
  end
end

class PigLatinTranslatorTest < MiniTest::Test
  def test_sentence_without_punctuation
    translated_sentence = PigLatinTranslator.translate("Pig latin is cool")

    assert_equal "igPay atinlay siay oolcay", translated_sentence
  end

  def test_sentence_with_punctuation
    translated_sentence = PigLatinTranslator.translate("Hello world !")

    assert_equal "elloHay orldway !", translated_sentence
  end
end

Jarod Smith • Aug 28 '19 • Edited

const vowels = ['a','i','e','o','u'];
// checkVowels :: String -> Bool
const checkVowel = str => vowels.includes(str.charAt(0))
// translate:: String -> String
const translate = str => checkVowel(str)? str + 'way ' : str.substring(1,str.length)+ str.charAt(0) + 'ay'
// pigLatin :: String -> [String] -> String  
const pigLatin = str => str.split(' ').map(word => translate(word)).join(" ")

Corey Alexander • Jul 25 '19

Rust Solution!

I paid specific attention to the punctuation rule, and made sure to get that right!

I also wasn't satisfied with just the example punctuation because nobody spaces out their punctuation like that ! See doesn't that look weird ?
Also the spec doesn't mention at all with how to treat words with punctuation IN them! So I made my own spec here and decided to split the words on any punctuation, and treat each side as it own word. Proper pig latin? Maybe not! But it's doing what I intended!

fn pigify_word(word: &str) -> String {
    println!("{}", word);
    if word.chars().all(|x| x.is_alphanumeric()) {
        let mut chars = word.chars();
        let first_letter = chars.next().unwrap();
        let rest_of_letters: String = chars.collect();

        format!("{}{}ay", rest_of_letters, first_letter)
    } else if word.chars().all(|x| !x.is_alphanumeric()) {
        word.to_string()
    } else {
        let symbol_index = word.find(|c: char| !c.is_alphanumeric()).unwrap();
        let alphanumeric_index = word.find(|c: char| c.is_alphanumeric()).unwrap();

        let index = symbol_index.max(alphanumeric_index);

        [word[0..index].to_string(), word[index..].to_string()]
            .iter()
            .map(|x| pigify_word(x))
            .collect()
    }
}

pub fn pig_it(english_input: &str) -> String {
    english_input
        .split(" ")
        .map(pigify_word)
        .collect::<Vec<_>>()
        .join(" ")
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use crate::*;

    #[test]
    fn it_works_without_punctuation() {
        assert_eq!(
            pig_it("Pig latin is cool"),
            "igPay atinlay siay oolcay".to_string()
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn it_works_with_spaced_out_punctuation() {
        assert_eq!(pig_it("Hello world !"), "elloHay orldway !".to_string());
    }

    #[test]
    fn it_works_with_word_ending_punctuation() {
        assert_eq!(
            pig_it("Hello world! How is it going today?"),
            "elloHay orldway! owHay siay tiay oinggay odaytay?".to_string()
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn it_works_with_word_mid_punctuation() {
        assert_eq!(
            pig_it("Hello world! How's it going today?"),
            "elloHay orldway! owHay'say tiay oinggay odaytay?".to_string()
        );
    }
}

peter279k • Jun 18 '20

Here is the simple solution with Python:

def pig_it(text):
    answer = ""
    pig_prefix = "ay"

    text_list = text.split(' ')

    for text in text_list:
        first_text = text[0]

        start_index = 1
        if len(text) == 0:
            start_index = 0

        if first_text == "?" or first_text == "!" or first_text == "," or first_text == ".":
            answer += text
        else:
            answer += text[start_index:] + first_text + pig_prefix + " " 

    if answer[-1] == " ":
        return answer[0:-1]

    return answer

Oleksii Filonenko • Jul 25 '19 • Edited

Elixir:

defmodule PigLatin do
  def pig_it(input) do
    input
    |> String.split()
    |> Enum.map(&latinate/1)
    |> Enum.join(" ")
  end

  defp latinate(<<first_letter::binary-size(1), rest::binary>>),
    do: rest <> first_letter <> "ay"
end