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The purpose of this lesson is to show off string templating and the Koan starts with some interesting examples
fun example1(a: Any, b: Any) =
"This is some text in which variables ($a, $b) appear."
fun example2(a: Any, b: Any) =
“You can write it in a Java way as well. Like this: “ + a + “, “ + b + “!”
fun example3(c: Boolean, x: Int, y: Int) = “Any expression can be used: ${if (c) x else y}”
If you are used to string templates from C# and JavaScript this should be fairly simple to understand.
The fourth example is interesting
fun example4() =
"""
You can use raw strings to write multiline text.
There is no escaping here, so raw strings are useful for writing regex patterns,
you don't need to escape a backslash by a backslash.
String template entries (${42}) are allowed here.
"""
This brought up something I’ve never heard of, raw strings. Raw strings seem to be the Python way of saying a Verbatim string… which I didn’t know was the official term.
The actual Koan here is about converting this fun getPattern() = """\d{2}\.\d{2}\.\d{4}""" to a different regular expression, using a string template:
fun task5(): String = """\d{2}\s$month\s\d{4}"""
It isn’t that interesting and really, if you don’t know regular expressions this could be tougher than it needs be.