Learning Exercise
The C# char type is a 16 bit quantity to represent the smallest addressable components of text.
Multiple chars can comprise a string such as "word" or chars can be
processed independently. Their literals have single quotes e.g. 'A'.
C# chars support UTF-16 Unicode encoding so in addition to the latin character set
pretty much all the writing systems used in the world can be represented,
e.g. the Greek letter 'β'.
There are many builtin library methods to inspect and manipulate chars. These
can be found as static methods of the System.Char class.
chars are sometimes used in conjunction with a StringBuilder object.
This object has methods that allow a string to be constructed
character by character and manipulated. At the end of the process
ToString can be called on it to output a complete string.
In this exercise you will implement a partial set of utility routines to help a developer clean up identifier names.
In the 5 tasks you will gradually build up the routine Clean A valid identifier comprises
zero or more letters and underscores.
In all cases the input string is guaranteed to be non-null. If an empty string is passed to the Clean function, an empty string should be returned.
Note that the caller should avoid calling the routine Clean with an empty identifier since such identifiers are ineffectual.
Implement the (static) Identifier.Clean() method to replace any spaces with underscores. This also applies to leading and trailing spaces.
Identifier.Clean("my Id");
// => "my___Id"
Modify the (static) Identifier.Clean() method to replace control characters with the upper case string "CTRL".
Identifier.Clean("my\0Id");
// => "myCTRLId",
Modify the (static) Identifier.Clean() method to convert kebab-case to camelCase.
Identifier.Clean("à -ḃç");
// => "à Ḃç"
Modify the (static) Identifier.Clean() method to omit any characters that are not letters.
Identifier.Clean("1😀2😀3😀");
// => ""
Modify the (static) Identifier.Clean() method to omit any Greek letters in the range 'α' to 'ω'.
Identifier.Clean("MyΟβιεγτFinder");
// => "MyΟFinder"
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