northerndemon / puzzle-1

Address Book Puzzle

The puzzle answers 3 questions given an address book of people records in the defined format:

{First Name} {Last Name}, {Male | Female}, {Birthday: dd/MM/YY}

These questions are:

• Count the number of personal records by gender
• Find the oldest / youngest personal record
• Calculate the number of days two persons have between each other's birthsdays

Each question is expressed in the from of a unit test.

Run: sbt test to find out if they are correct.

Datasets

Datasets are located under the resources folder:

• AddressBook standard dataset with all records being correct
• UnorganizedAddressBook standard dataset where records are correct, but in unorganized format (extra spaces, multiple commas, etc.)
• MalformedGenderAddressBook dataset contains one record with incorrect gender
• MalformedBirthdayAddressBook dataset contains one record with incorrect birthday format
• MalformedNameAddressBook dataset contains one record without space in between of the first and last names

The records are normalized while parsing.

The records are skipped if they contain malformed data.

Requirements

• Scala 2.12.2
• sbt 0.13.15
• nscala-time
• scalatest