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Question

Challenge

For each character of the string except for the last one, do the following:

• Output the current character.

• Followed by randomly outputting from the following list a random number of times between 1 - 5 (inclusive):

  • The current character
  • The next character of the string
  • The switchcase version of the character that you are currently on
  • The switchcase version of the next character of the string.

Test Cases

String --> SSSTSStrTrIiinIIngn

, . , . , . Hello world! --> ,,, .. , ,, .... , , .. .. . HHH HHEeelLlLllooO wwOworOOrrrRllDd!!D

Programming Puzzles and Code Golf --> PrPPrRrOooooogggRgGraAraaaMMMmmmimMIiininGGgG PPPPuZzZZzZzzZzllLLEEeEsEsssS a aANnNddD C COCoooOOdeDe E GGGoOllFFf

Notes

• You only need to apply the switchcase version of a character if the character is part of the alphabet (A-Z and a-z).
• Your random function does not need to be uniform but it still needs to have a chance of returning any element in the list given.
• You are allowed to use any standard I/O format.
• You may assume that the length of the input is greater than or equal to two.
• You may assume that the input only consists of ASCII characters.
• The title is not a test case (it is unintentional if it is a valid test case).
• Switchcase means to turn the char to lowercase if it is uppercase and to turn it to uppercase if it is lowercase.

Answer 1

Gaia, 25 bytes

ṇ\+†ṅ\⟨)₌¤:~+4ṛ⟨ṛ₌¤⟩ₓ\⟩¦$

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Thanks to Kevin Cruijssen for pointing out 2 bugs!

ṇ\				| delete the last character from the input
  +†				| push the input again and concatenate together, so for instance
				| 'abc' 'bc' becomes ['ab' 'bc' 'c']
    ṅ\				| delete the last element
       ⟨       		⟩¦	| for each of the elements, do:
	)₌			| take the first character and push again
	  ¤			| swap
	   :			| dup
	    ~			| swap case
	     +			| concatenate strings
	      4ṛ		| select a random integer from [1..5]
	        ⟨    ⟩ₓ		| and repeat that many times
		 ṛ₌¤		| select a random character from the string
		      \ 	| clean up stack
			   $	| convert to string

Note that 4ṛ is because ṛ is implemented for an integer z as python's random.randint(1,z+1), which returns an integer N such that 1<=N<=z+1.

Answer 2

APL (dzaima/APL), 23 bytes

Anonymous tacit prefix function.

∊2(⊣,{?4⍴⍨?5}⊇,,-⍤,)/

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2(…)/ apply the following infix tacit function between each character pair:

 - the switchcase
 ⍤ of
 , the concatenation of the pair

 ,, prepend the concatenation of the pair to that

 {…}⊇ pick the following elements from that:

  ?5 random number in range 1…5

  4⍴⍨ that many fours

  ? random indices for those

∊ ϵnlist (flatten)

Answer 3

Bash, 121 bytes

-20 bytes thanks to Nahuel

-9 bytes thanks to roblogic

for((i=0;i<${#1};i++)){
s=${1:i:1}
m=${1:i:2}
m=${m,,}${m^^}
for((t=0;t++<RANDOM%6;)){
s+=${m:RANDOM%4:1}
}
printf "$s"
}

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Original answer

Bash, 150 bytes

Have done very little golf bashing and trying to improve my bash, so any comments welcome.

for((i=0;i<${#1}-1;i++));do
c=${1:$i:1}
n=${1:$((i+1)):1}
a=($n ${c,} ${c^} ${n,} ${n^})
shuf -e ${a[@]} -n "$(shuf -i 1-5 -n 1)"|xargs printf %s
done

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Code is straightforward loop through chars setting current c and next n character, then creating an array of the 4 possibilities, repeating one of them so there's exactly 5. Next we shuffle that array, and then choose n elements from it, where n itself is random between 1 and 5.

Answer 4

Perl 6, 60 bytes

{S:g{.)>(.)}=$/~[~] roll ^5 .roll+1,$/.lc,$/.uc,$0.lc,$0.uc}

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The lowercase/uppercase part is kinda annoying.

Answer 5

Jelly, 12 bytes

;Œsṗ5X¤XṭṖµƝ

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Answer 6

Python 2, 107 bytes

f=lambda s:s and s[0]+''.join(sample((s[:2]+s[:2].swapcase())*5,randint(1,5)))+f(s[1:])
from random import*

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Answer 7

05AB1E, 18 17 bytes

ü)vyн5LΩFyD.š«Ω]J

Inspired by @Giuseppe's Gaia answer.
-1 byte thanks to @Shaggy.

Try it online 10 times or verify all test cases 10 times.

Explanation:

ü)             # Create all pairs of the (implicit) input
               #  i.e. "Hello" → [["H","e"],["e","l"],["l","l"],["l","o"]]
  v            # Loop over each these pairs `y`:
   yн          #  Push the first character of pair `y`
   5LΩ         #  Get a random integer in the range [1,5]
      F        #  Inner loop that many times:
       y       #   Push pair `y`
        D.š«   #   Duplicate it, swap the cases of the letters, and merge it with `y`
            Ω  #   Then pop and push a random character from this list of four
  ]J           # After both loops: join the entire stack together to a single string
               # (which is output implicitly as result)

Answer 8

Charcoal, 27 bytes

ＦＬθ«Ｆ∧ι⊕‽⁵‽⭆✂θ⊖ι⊕ι¹⁺↥λ↧λ§θι

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ＦＬθ«

Loop over all of the indices of the input string.

Ｆ∧ι⊕‽⁵

Except for the first index, loop over a random number from 1 to 5 inclusive...

‽⭆✂θ⊖ι⊕ι¹⁺↥λ↧λ

... extract the previous and next characters from the string, take the upper and lower case versions, and pick a random character of the four.

§θι

Print the character at the current index.

Answer 9

Jelly, 14 bytes

;;;Œs$Xɗ¥5X¤¡Ɲ

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Explanation

             Ɲ | For each overlapping pair of letters
;              | Join the first letter to...
         5X¤¡  | Between 1 and 5 repetitions of...
      Xɗ¥      | A randomly selected character from...
 ;;Œs$         | A list of the two letters and the swapped case versions of both

Answer 10

perl 5 (-p), 77 bytes

s/(.)(?=(.))/$x=$1;'$x.=substr"\U$1$2\L$1$2",4*rand,1;'x(1+5*rand)/gee;s/.$//

TIO

Answer 11

Japt -P, 14 bytes

äÈ+Zu pv ö5ö Ä

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äÈ+Zu pv ö5ö Ä     :Implicit input of string
ä                  :Take each consectutive pair of characters
 È                 :Pass them through the following function as Z
  +                :  Append to the first character of the pair
   Zu              :    Uppercase Z
      p            :    Append
       v           :      Lowercase
         ö         :    Get X random characters, where X is
          5ö       :      Random number in the range [0,5)
             Ä     :      Plus 1
                   :Implicitly join and output

Answer 12

Python 3, 167 bytes

from random import*;c=choice
def f(s):
 i=0;r=""
 for i in range(len(s)-1):
  r+=s[i]
  for j in range(randrange(5)):r+=c([str.upper,str.lower])(c(s[i:i+2]))
 return r

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Answer 13

C(GCC) 175 162 150 bytes

-12 bytes from LambdaBeta

-12 bytes from ceilingcat

f(s,S,i,r,a)char*s,*S,*i;{srand(time(0));for(i=S;s[1];++s)for(r=rand(*i++=*s)%5+1;r--;*i++=rand()&1&&a>96&a<123|a>64&a<91?a^32:a)a=s[~rand()&1];*i=0;}

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Answer 14

PowerShell, 154 105 103 95 87 bytes

^{-67 bytes thanks to mazzy who can't be stopped}

-join(($x=$args)|%{$_;$x[$i,++$i]*5|%{"$_"|% *wer;"$_"|% *per}|random -c(1..5|random)})

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Not a fantastic method but it works. Now it's pretty good. Takes input via splatting

Answer 15

Japt -P, 43 16 bytes

äÈ+(Zv +Zu)ö5ö Ä

Shortened by a lot now!

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Answer 16

C# (Visual C# Interactive Compiler), 236 213 209 bytes

a=>{int i=0,j;var m=new Random();var s="";var c = a.Select(x=>Char.IsLetter(x)?(char)(x^32):x).ToArray();for(;i<a.Length-1;i++)for(j=m.Next(1,5);j-->0;)s+=new[]{a[i],c[i],a[i+1],c[i+1]}[m.Next(0,3)];return s;}

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Answer 17

Scala 2.12.8, 214 bytes

Golfed version:

val r=scala.util.Random;println(readLine.toList.sliding(2).flatMap{case a :: b :: Nil=>(a +: (0 to r.nextInt(5)).map{_=>((c: Char)=>if(r.nextBoolean)c.toUpper else c.toLower)(if(r.nextBoolean)a else b)})}.mkString)

Golfed with newlines and indents:

val r=scala.util.Random
println(readLine.toList.sliding(2).flatMap{
  case a :: b :: Nil=>
    (a +: (0 to r.nextInt(5)).map{_=>
      ((c: Char)=>if(r.nextBoolean)c.toUpper else c.toLower)(if(r.nextBoolean)a else b)
    })
}.mkString)

Ungolfed:

import scala.io.StdIn
import scala.util.Random

def gobble(input: String): String = {
  input.toList.sliding(2).flatMap {
    case thisChar :: nextChar :: Nil =>
      val numberOfAdditions = Random.nextInt(5)
      (thisChar +: (0 to numberOfAdditions).map { _ =>
        val char = if(Random.nextBoolean) thisChar else nextChar
        val cc = if(Random.nextBoolean) char.toUpper else char.ToLower
        cc
      })
  }.mkString
}

println(gobble(StdIn.readLine()))

Answer 18

Perl 5 -n, 61 bytes

s/.(?=(.))/print$&,map{(map{lc,uc}$&,$1)[rand 4]}0..rand 5/ge

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Answer 19

T-SQL query, 286 bytes

DECLARE @ char(999)='String'

SELECT @=stuff(@,n+2,0,s)FROM(SELECT
top 999*,substring(lower(c)+upper(c),abs(v%4)+1,1)s
FROM(SELECT*,number n,substring(@,number+1,2)c,cast(newid()as varbinary)v
FROM(values(1),(2),(3),(4),(5))F(h),spt_values)D
WHERE'P'=type and n<len(@)-1and h>v%3+2ORDER
BY-n)E
PRINT LEFT(@,len(@)-1)

Try it online unfortunately the online version always show the same result for the same varchar, unlike MS SQL Server Management Studio

Answer 20

C# (Visual C# Interactive Compiler), 156 bytes

n=>{var k=new Random();int i=0;foreach(var j in n.Skip(1).Zip(n,(a,b)=>a+b))for(Write(j[1]),i=0;i++<k.Next(5);)Write(k.Next()%2<1?j.ToUpper():j.ToLower());}

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Answer 21

C (gcc), 110 109 bytes

i,p;g(char*_){for(i=rand(putchar(*_))%1024;p=_[i%2],putchar(i&2&&p>64&~-p%32<26?p^32:p),i/=4;);_[2]&&g(_+1);}

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-1 thanks to ceilingcat

i,p;g(char*_){
    for(i=rand(putchar(*_)) //print current char
         %1024;             // and get 10 random bits
        p=_[i%2],           //1st bit => current/next char
        putchar(i&2&&       //2nd bit => toggle case
            p>64&~-p%32<26  // if char-to-print is alphabetic
            ?p^32:p),
        i/=4;);             //discard two bits
    _[2]&&g(_+1);           //if next isn't last char, repeat with next char
}

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The number of characters printed (per input character) is not uniformly random:

1  if      i<   4 (  4/1024 = 1/256)
2  if   4<=i<  16 ( 12/1024 = 3/256)
3  if  16<=i<  64 ( 48/1024 = 3/ 64)
4  if  64<=i< 256 (192/1024 = 3/ 16)
5  if 256<=i<1024 (768/1024 = 3/  4)

Answer 22

Zsh, 113 107 bytes

With a lot of help from man zshexpn and man zshparam. Try it Online!

• -6 by me, tweaking

for ((;i<#1;i++)){m=${1:$i:2};m=$m:l$m:u
for ((;t<RANDOM%5;t++))x+=${m[RANDOM%4]}
echo ${1[i]}$x\\c;t=;x=;}