Advent Calendar 2019

The gift is presented by Khalid**. Today he is talking about his solutions to Task #1: Strip leading zeros** of “The Weekly Challenge - 002”.

Write a script or one-liner to remove leading zeros from positive numbers.

This solution uses Raku Grammer

At first here is the code :

grammar Grammer { token TOP { <sign> ? <int> <decimal> ?} token decimal { <dot><digit> ?} token int { <zeros> ? <digit> ?} token digit { \ d + } token dot { '.' } token zeros { 0 + } token sign { '+' } } my $match = Grammer . parse(@ * ARGS[ 0 ]); my $number = ($match <int><digit> // '' ) ~ ($match <decimal> // '' ); say $number;

at the first line we simply creat a Grammer with name ‘Grammer’ which is a Class that have methods (rules, tokens and regexes) as documented here.

Let’s get the zeros token first:

0+ matches any number of Zeros in the input

dot token : matches only .

digit token : matches any number of digit characters

int token : uses zeros token and digit token to match the first part of the number incase it is decimal.

and I made it’s parts optional using ? as the first part may not contain zeros or digits input ex: .53, 1.52

decimal token : matches a dot . followed by any number of digit characters

and putting them together in the main TOP token gives us the full number.

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Advent Calendar 2019