Showing posts with label input validation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label input validation. Show all posts

Thursday, August 22, 2024

Crafting a Regular Expression to Match HTML-like Tag Structures

You need to define a regular expression pattern that matches a specific format of HTML-like tags. The goal is to create a pattern that validates strings where the format follows these rules:

1. **Tags**: The string should start with an opening HTML-like tag, contain some optional content, and end with a closing HTML-like tag.
2. **Tag Structure**:
   - The opening tag should start with a `<`, followed by one or more lowercase letters, and end with a `>`.
   - The content between the tags is optional and can include any word characters (letters, digits, and underscores).
   - The closing tag should start with `</`, followed by one or more lowercase letters, and end with `>`.

1. **Tag Matching**:
   - **Opening Tag**: `^<` ensures the string starts with an opening tag. `[a-z]{1,}` specifies that the tag name must be at least one lowercase letter long. `>` indicates the end of the opening tag.
   - **Content**: `[\w]{0,}` allows for zero or more word characters between the tags.
   - **Closing Tag**: `<\/[a-z]{1,}>` matches a closing tag, which starts with `</`, followed by one or more lowercase letters, and ends with `>`.

2. **Pattern Details**:
   - The `^` asserts the position at the start of the string.
   - The pattern ensures that the tag names in the opening and closing tags are the same.
   - The content between the tags is optional.

### Summary:

This regular expression pattern is designed to match strings that start with an HTML-like opening tag, optionally contain some content, and end with a closing tag. The tags must be properly formatted and the same tag name should be used for both the opening and closing tags.

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Player vs. Robot Number Guessing Game

1. **Initialization of Game Statistics**:
   - The game starts by setting up a way to track the outcomes: how many times the player wins, how many times the robot wins, and how many times there is a draw.

2. **Gameplay Loop**:
   - The game runs in a loop that allows continuous play until the player decides to exit.
   - Each round begins with the player being prompted to input a number. 
   - If the player inputs "exit game," the loop ends, and the game displays the final statistics: how many times each side won and how many draws occurred.

3. **Input Validation**:
   - The game checks whether the player's input is a valid number:
     - If the input is not a number, the game informs the player that a string is not valid and asks for a new input.
     - If the input is a negative number, the game informs the player that negative numbers are not allowed.
     - If the input is a number greater than 1,000,000, the game flags it as invalid and prompts for a valid input.

4. **Robot's Guess and Goal Number**:
   - Once a valid number is provided, the game randomly generates two numbers:
     - One for the robot's guess.
     - One as the goal number that both the player's and the robot's guesses will be compared against.

5. **Determine the Winner**:
   - The game compares how close the player's guess and the robot's guess are to the goal number:
     - If the player's guess is closer, the player wins that round.
     - If the robot's guess is closer, the robot wins.
     - If both guesses are equally close, it's a draw.

6. **Update Statistics**:
   - The game updates the win/draw counts based on the result of each round.

7. **Game Exit**:
   - When the player types "exit game," the game ends and displays the final tally of wins, losses, and draws.


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