String of alphanumeric characters to a sorted list of comma-separated ranges

Question

Given a string of unsorted alphanumeric characters, e.g.

ABC321STPpJqZZr0

output a ", "-separated list of character ranges, sorted by ASCII value, ignoring case and removing duplicates (i.e. outputting only uppercase and numeric characters), e.g.

0-3, A-C, J, P-T, Z

Rules

• The length of your program is your base score, as usual.
• You must initialize (hardcode) the above example within your program, but you may discount the length of that example from your program length, e.g. for char* s="ABC321STPpJqZZr0"; you may discount 16 chars, the other 11 chars counting toward your program length.

Bonus (+50 bounty)

• As this was a real problem encountered by my coworker today, needing to be written in Tcl 8.0.5 (an ancient version, lacking many of the latest Tcl built-ins), I'll award 50 points to whomever writes the shortest Tcl 8.0.5 solution, if there are at least 2 valid submissions in Tcl 8.0.5.

Answer 1

Ruby, 87-16=71

EDIT: Had to add some characters so that two-character ranges are displayed correctly. Also using ?[ instead of ?Z to fix a bug with ranges ending in Z.

$><<[*?0..?[].join.gsub(/[^ABC321STPpJqZZr0]/i,$/).gsub(/\B.+\B/,?-).scan(/.-.|./)*', '

You can see the Ideone run here.

Answer 2

Julia, 131

julia> l=sort(unique(uppercase("ABC321STPpJqZZr0")))
julia> prod([!(c+1 in l)?"$c"*(c==l[end]?"":", "):!(c-1 in l)?"$c":(c+1 in l)&&!(c+2 in l)?"-":"" for c in l])

"0-3, A-C, J, P-T, Z"

Not supported by Ideone.com, and will probably be crushed anyway.

Answer 3

GolfScript 57 54 52

 'ABC321STPpJqZZr0'
 {.95>32*-}%.|:x..{(}%&-x..{)}%&-+$2/{.|'-'*}%', '*

Try it here.

The code first capitalizes everything:

{.95>32*-}%

Then gets unique characters and saves it in a variable:

.|:x

Then, we get the characters whose direct predecessors are not in the string (so that they are the beginning part of a range):

..{)}%&-x

We similarly get the ends of ranges with x..{)}%&-.

Now actually form the ranges by concatenating the lists, sorting, and splitting into groups of 2:

+$2/

The rest is just formatting, using * as string join.

Answer 4

C#, 221 bytes

class P{
    static void Main(){
        var s="ABC321STPpJqZZr0";
        var l=new int[257];
        foreach(int c in s.ToUpper())
            l[c]=1;
        var r="";
        for(int i=0;i<255;){
            if(l[i++]-l[i]<0)
                r+=", "+(char)i;
            else if(l[i+1]-l[i]<0)
                r+="-"+(char)i;
        }
        System.Console.Write(r.Substring(2));
    }
}

Answer 5

C, 193

char*s="ABC321STPpJqZZr0";
int c[99];memset(c,0,396);while(*s){++c[toupper(*s++)];}for(int i=0,f=1,r=0;
i<=99;++i){if(!r&&c[i])r=i;if(r&&!c[i]){if(!f)printf(", ");putchar(r);
if(i-r>1)printf("-%c",i-1);r=f=0;}}

Answer 6

Q, 94

{","sv(,/){{"-"sv(?) -1 1#\:x}'[cut[;a]0,1_(&)1<(-':)"i"$'a:asc upper[x]inter y]}[x]'[.Q`n`A]}

Answer 7

Python 2.x, 304 - 16 = 288

This can surely be golfed further, all comments welcome!

e=[""]*11;f=[""]*27
for c in"ABC321STPpJqZZr0".lower():e["0123456789".find(c)]=f["abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz".find(c)]=c
e[-1]=f[-1]=""
def h(j):
 g=[];k=l=i=0
 for e in j:
  if e:
   if not l:k=i;l=1
  elif l:l=g.append((k,i-1))
  i+=1
 print", ".join([j[m],j[m]+"-"+j[n]][n-m>1]for m,n in g)
h(e);h(f)

Answer 8

Rebol (218 - 16 = 202)

m: s: sort uppercase unique"ABC321STPpJqZZr0"i: :to-integer f: does[either 1 = length? x: copy/part m s[x][rejoin[x/1"-"last x]]]while[not tail? s: next s][if(1 + i pick back s 1)!=(i s/1)[prin join f", "m: s]]print f

Non-minified version:

m: s: sort uppercase unique "ABC321STPpJqZZr0"
i: :to-integer

f: does [
    either 1 = length? x: copy/part m s [x] [rejoin [x/1 "-" last x]]
]

while [not tail? s: next s][
    if (1 + i pick back s 1) != (i s/1) [
        prin join f ", "
        m: s
    ]
]

print f

Answer 9

q [116 chars]

{.a:();{m:6h$x;.a:.a,$[m[1]=1+m[0];45;m[0],44,m 1];1_x}/[x:asc distinct upper x];p where differ 6h$p:-3_10h$x[0],.a}

Usage

{.a:();{m:6h$x;.a:.a,$[m[1]=1+m[0];45;m[0],44,m 1];1_x}/[x:asc distinct upper x];p where differ 6h$p:-3_10h$x[0],.a}"ABC321STPpJqZZr0"

Output

"0-3,A-C,J,P-T,Z"

There is a scope of saving chars, i'll try some other method and post it.

Answer 10

Tcl 8.0.5, 344 (360 bytes)

set a ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789
set s string
set x [join [lsort [split [$s toupper ABC321STPpJqZZr0] ""]] ""]
regsub -all (.)\\1+ $x \\1 x
set i 36
while {[incr i -1]} {set j -1
while {$i+[incr j]<36} {set y [$s range $a $j [expr $i+$j]]
regsub $y $x [$s index $y 0]-[$s index $y end],\  x}}
while {[regsub -all {(\w)(\w)} $x {\1, \2} x]} {}
puts $x

Tcl 8.0.5, 340 (356 bytes)

Tinkering with the rename command yielded some fun tricks! I've documented them in another thread.

rename rename &
& set =
& regsub R
& string S
& while W
= a ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789
= x [lsort [split [S toupper ABC321STPpJqZZr0] ""]]
R -all {(.) \1+| } $x \\1 x
= i 36
W {[incr i -1]} {= j -1
W {$i+[incr j]<36} {= y [S range $a $j [expr $i+$j]]
R $y $x [S index $y 0]-[S index $y end],\  x}}
W {[R -all {(\w)(\w)} $x {\1, \2} x]} {}
puts $x

Tcl 8.0.5, 332 (348 bytes) [Unstable—depends on $PATH]

info script ""
set tcl_interactive 1
set a ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789
set x [lso [sp [st toupper ABC321STPpJqZZr0] ""]]
regs -all {(.) \1+| } $x \\1 x
set i 36
wh {[inc i -1]} {set j -1
wh {$i+[inc j]<36} {set y [st range $a $j [exp $i+$j]]
regs $y $x [st index $y 0]-[st index $y end],\  x}}
wh {[regs {(\w)(\w)} $x {\1, \2} x]} {}
pu $x

Credit to @JohannesKuhn for the interactive trick.