By this time you should have been introduced to Java Strings, Exceptions, Unit Testing.
You will need to watch this video before you start the assessment, REGEX is a big part of the solution. REGEX.
You can test your REGEX ideas using this website regexr.com
You will have 5 hours to get as far as you can. Once the time is up, push up your changes, and create a pull request.
In this project you will find a file in the resource folder called RawData.txt. It was supposed to be a grocery list formatted in JSON, but Baron Von Codem the fearless leader bof the WEST SIDE decided to come reformat it in his own Object Notation. JerkSON... you are welcome.
Just like Json , JerkSON is supposed to be a Key Value Pair data store.
In Json Key and Value are seperated as such (Key:Value) where the colon is the separator.
In JerkSON Key and Value could be separated by using a any of the following (:, @, ^, *, %) and there is no guarantee that there isn't another hidden symbol seperator. (There could be another one, or maybe there isn't , you tell me)... lol
In Json Key and Value pairs are separated by a ',' in JerkSON its '##'
Its your job to build a JerkSON data parser, that is able to read in the raw data , and output a string formated list that resembles (outputFormat.txt)
There are some things to look out for.... If you haven't figured it out by now Tariq has many wonderful qualities, spelling isn't one of them, so Words may not be spelled correctly. You need to decipher what Tariq was trying to spell using pattern matching.
for example:
In the shopping list Tariq has Cookies, but he could spell like Cookies, c00Kies, Co0kies and so on.
You must use regex to detect the patterns and match them.
Oh one more thing.... Baron VON CODEM is kind of petty... last week the EAST SIDE wanted thing to be HARDER sooo.
Its not guranteed that every Key will have a Value, and every Value will have a pair. For instance:
you may see something like this
Name:Milk;Price:3.23;type:;expiration:1/24/2016##
Notice how TYPE has a key but no Value.... if you try and parse this into an object your program could crash.
You will need to handle your exceptions!
I also expect you to report on how many exceptions you saw while parsing the data.
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