Acronym

Instructions

Convert a phrase to its acronym.

Techies love their TLA (Three Letter Acronyms)!

Help generate some jargon by writing a program that converts a long name like Portable Network Graphics to its acronym (PNG).

Punctuation is handled as follows: hyphens are word separators (like whitespace); all other punctuation can be removed from the input.

For example:

This exercise works with textual data. For historical reasons, Haskell's String type is synonymous with [Char], a list of characters. For more efficient handling of textual data, the Text type can be used.

As an optional extension to this exercise, you can

• Read about string types in Haskell.

• Add - text to your list of dependencies in package.yaml.

• Import Data.Text in the following way:

    import qualified Data.Text as T
    import           Data.Text (Text)
  

• You can now write e.g. abbreviate :: Text -> Text and refer to Data.Text combinators as e.g. T.filter.

• Look up the documentation for Data.Text.

This part is entirely optional.

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Source

Julien Vanier