Remove duplicated & switched case

Question

Goal

The goal of this challenge is: given a string as input, remove duplicate pairs of letters, if the second item in the pair is of opposite capitalization. (i.e. uppercase becomes lowercase and vice-versa).

Pairs should be replaced from left to right. For example, aAa should become aa and not aA.

Inputs & outputs:

Input:         Output:  
bBaAdD         bad     
NniIcCeE       Nice    
Tt eE Ss tT    T e S t 
sS Ee tT       s E t   
1!1!1sStT!     1!1!1st!
nN00bB         n00b    
(eE.gG.)       (e.g.)  
Hh3lL|@!       H3l|@!
Aaa            Aa
aaaaa          aaaaa
aaAaa          aaaa

The input consists of printable ASCII symbols.

You shouldn't remove duplicated digits or other non-letter characters.

Acknowledgement

This challenge is the opposite of @nicael 's "Duplicate & switch case". Can you reverse it?

Thank you for all contributors from the sandbox!

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Answer 1

Jelly, 8 bytes

ṛŒsḟḟȧµ\

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How it works

ṛŒsḟḟȧµ\  Main link. Argument: s (string)

      µ   Convert all links to the left into a chain (unknown arity) and begin a
          new chain.
       \  Do a cumulative reduce by the chain to the left.
          Left argument:   r (previous result or first character)
          Right argument:  c (next character)
ṛ           Set the return value to c.
 Œs         Swap c's case.
    ḟ       Remove c from r (if present).
            This yields an empty string if c and r are identical (repeated letter
            with the same case or non-letter) and r otherwise.
            Note that r will be empty if the previous character has been removed.
   ḟ        Remove the resulting characters (if any) from c with swapped case.
            This yields c with swapped case if the result to the right does not
            contain c; otherwise, it yields the empty string.
     ȧ      Flat logical AND with c.
            Replace swapped case c with c; do not modify an empty string.

Answer 2

Retina, 18 bytes

(.)(?!\1)(?i)\1
$1

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Explanation

This a single (and fairly simple) substitution which matches the relevant pairs and replaces them with only the first character. The pairs are matched by activating case-insensitivity halfway through the pattern:

(.)     # Match a character and capture it into group 1.
(?!\1)  # Use a negative lookahead to ensure that the next character *isn't* the same
        # as the character we just captured. This doesn't advance the position of the
        # regex engine's "cursor".
(?i)    # Now activate case-insensitivity for the remainder of the pattern.
\1      # Match the second character with a backreference to the first. With the i
        # modifier activated, this will match if the two characters only differ
        # by case.

The substitution simply writes back the character we already captured in group 1 anyway.

Answer 3

C#, 87 75 bytes

s=>System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(s,@"(.)(?!\1)(?i)\1","$1");

With the mighty regex from Martin Ender. C# lambda where the input and the output are string.

12 bytes saved by Martin Ender and TùxCräftîñg.

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C#, 141 134 bytes

s=>{var r="";for(int i=0,l=s.Length;i<l;i++){var c=s[i];r+=c;if(char.IsLetter(c)&i+1<l&&(c|32)==(s[i+1]|32)&c!=s[i+1])i++;}return r;};

C# lambda where the input and the output are string. The algorithm is naive. This is the one I use as reference.

Code:

s=>{
    var r = "";
    for(int i = 0; i < s.Length; i++)
    {
        r+=s[i];
        if (char.IsLetter(s[i]) & i+1 < s.Length)
            if (char.ToLower(s[i])==char.ToLower(s[i+1])
              & char.IsLower(s[i])!=char.IsLower(s[i+1]))
                i += 1;
    }       
    return r;
};

7 bytes thanks to Martin Ender!

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Answer 4

Brachylog, 44 bytes

.v|.l1|hA,?bhB(@uA;A@uB),?bb&~b.hA|?b&~b.h~h?

Brachylog has no regular expressions.

Explanation

    .v          Input = Output = ""
|               OR
    .l1         Input = Output = string of one character
|               OR
    hA,         A is the first char or the Input
    ?bhB        B is the second char of the Input
    (
        @uA         B uppercased is A
        ;           OR
        A@uB        A uppercased is B
    ),
    ?bb&        Call recursively on Input minus the first two elements
    ~b.hA       Output is the result of that call with A appended before it
|               OR
    b&          Call recursively on Input minus the first element
    ~b.h~h?     Output is the result of that call with the first element of Input appended
                  before it

Answer 5

Perl, 40 24+1=25 bytes

Use the same regex as Martin.
Use the -p flag

s/(.)(?!\1)(?i)\1/\1/g

Test it on ideone

Answer 6

Python 3, 64 59 58 bytes

r=input()
for c in r:r=c[c.swapcase()==r!=c:];print(end=r)

Test it on Ideone.

Answer 7

C, 66 bytes

l;main(c){for(;~(c=getchar());)l=l^c^32|!isalpha(c)?putchar(c):0;}

Answer 8

Pyth, 24 20 bytes

4 bytes thanks to @Jakube.

This still uses regex, but just for tokenizing.

shM:zj\|+s_BVGrG1\.1

Test suite.

shM:zj\|+s_BVGrG1\.1   input as z
         s_BVGrG1      generate ['aA', 'Aa', 'bB', 'Bb', ..., 'zZ', 'Zz']
        +        \.    add "." to the back of the array
     j\|               insert "|" between every element of the array,
                       forming a new long string, which will be our
                       tokenizer: "aA|Aa|bB|Bb|cC|Cc|...|yY|Yy|zZ|Zz|."
                       the "." at the end is to capture the remaining characters
  :z               1   return all matches of z against that regex
                       this is effectively a tokenizer
 hM                    take the first character of each token
s                      join all the transformed tokens together, and then
                       implicitly print to STDOUT.

• 24-byte version here.

Answer 9

MATL, 21 bytes

"Kk@k=K@XK=>?4XKx}K&h

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Explanation

This processes each character in a loop. Each iteration compares the current character with the previous character. The latter is stored in clipboard K, which is initiallized to 4 by default.

The current character is compared with the previous one twice: first case-insensitively and then case sensitively. The current character should be deleted if and only if the first comparison was true and the second was false. Note that, since clipboard K initially contains 4, the first character will always be kept.

If the current character is deleted clipboard K should be reset (so the next character will be kept); otherwise it should be updated with the current character.

"            % Take input string implicitly. For each char from this string:
  K          %   Push previous char, initiallized to number 4
  k          %   Convert to lower case. For numbers it rounds down
  @          %   Push current char
  k          %   Convert to lower case. 
  =          %   True if current and previous chars are (case-insensitively) equal
  K          %   Push previous char
  @          %   Push current char
  XK         %   Update clipboard K with current char. This doesn't affect the stack
  =          %   True if current and previous chars are (case-sensitively) equal
  >?         %   If first comparison was true and second was false
    4XKx     %     Reset clipboard K to 4
  }          %   Else
    K        %     Push previous char
    &h       %     Concatenate horizontally to gradually build the output string

Answer 10

C, 129 127 125 107 106 105 93 92 90 88 85 78 bytes

c;d;f(char*s){for(;putchar(c=*s);)s+=isalpha(c)*(d=*++s)&&(!((c^d)&95)&&c^d);}

A C port of my C# answer. My C may be a bit bad. I don't use the language a lot anymore. Any help is welcome!

• 1 byte saved thanks to Lowjacker's trick: a!=b = a^b
• 1 byte saved thanks to Walpen's trick: a&&b = a*b
• 12 bytes saved by Lynn's trick and inspired here by TùxCräftîñg
• 1 byte saved thanks to Joey Adams's trick and inspired here by orlp : Moving variable to global
• 2 bytes saved by SEJPM by resolving my (c|32)==(d|32) bitwise problem
• 5 bytes saved by Pietu1998

Code:

c;d;f(char*s) {
    for(;putchar(c=*s);)
        s+=isalpha(c)*(d=*++s)&&(!((c^d)&95)&&c^d);
}

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Answer 11

JavaScript (ES6), 71 68 bytes

s=>s.replace(/./g,c=>l=c!=l&&c>'0'&&parseInt(c+l,36)%37<1?'':c,l='')

Explanation:

s=>s.replace(/./g,c=>   Loop over each character in the string
 l=                     Save result for next loop
  c!=l&&                Check whether characters differ
  c>'@'&&               Check minimum character code
  parseInt(c+l,36)%37<1 Check if characters have same value
  ?'':c,                If so then delete this character
 l='')                  Initial empty previous character

Given c>'@', the only way for parseInt(c+l,36) to be a multiple of 37 is for both c and l to have the same value (they can't have zero value because we excluded space and zero, and if they have no value then the expression will evaluate to NaN<1 which is false) is for them to be the same letter. However, we know that they're not the same letter case-sensitively, so they must be the same case-insensitively.

Note that this algorithm only works if I check every character; if I try to simplify it by matching on letters it will then fail on things like "a+A".

Edit: Saved 3 bytes thanks to @edc65.

Answer 12

JavaScript (ES6), 61 bytes, 57 Bytes

s=>s.replace(/./g,c=>l=c!=l&/(.)\1/i.test(l+c)?'':c,l='')

Thanks to Neil for saving 5 bytes.

Answer 13

Java 7, 66 bytes

String c(String i){return i.replaceAll("(.)(?!\\1)(?i)\\1","$1");}

Used Martin Ender's regex from his Retina answer.

Ungolfed & test code:

Try it here.

class Main{
  static String c(String i){
    return i.replaceAll("(.)(?!\\1)(?i)\\1", "$1");
  }

  public static void main(String[] a){
    System.out.println(c("bBaAdD"));
    System.out.println(c("NniIcCeE"));
    System.out.println(c("Tt eE Ss tT"));
    System.out.println(c("sS Ee tT"));
    System.out.println(c("1!1!1sStT!"));
    System.out.println(c("nN00bB"));
    System.out.println(c("(eE.gG.)"));
    System.out.println(c("Hh3lL|@!"));
    System.out.println(c("Aaa"));
    System.out.println(c("aaaaa"));
    System.out.println(c("aaAaa"));
  }
}

Output:

bad
Nice
T e S t
s E t
1!1!1st!
n00b
(e.g.)
H3l|@!
Aa
aaaaa
aaaa

Answer 14

JavaScript (ES6) 70

(s,p,q)=>s.replace(/./g,c=>p!=c&q===(d=parseInt(c,36))?q='':(q=d,p=c))

f=(s,p,q)=>s.replace(/./g,c=>p!=c&q===(d=parseInt(c,36))?q='':(q=d,p=c))

;
[['bBaAdD','bad']
,['NniIcCeE','Nice']
,['Tt eE Ss tT','T e S t']
,['sS Ee tT','s E t']
,['1!1!1sStT!','1!1!1st!']
,['nN00bB','n00b']
,['(eE.gG.)','(e.g.)']
,['Hh3lL|@!','H3l|@!']
,['Aaa','Aa']
,['aaaaa','aaaaa']
,['aaAaa','aaaa']]
.forEach(
  x=>
  {
    var i=x[0],k=x[1],r=f(i)
    console.log(k==r?'OK':'KO',i,r)
  }
)

Answer 15

Convex, 18 bytes

V±V.+'.+'|*\ô{0=}%

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Similar approach as @Leaky Nun's Pyth answer. It constructs the array ["aA" "bB" ... "zZ" "Aa" "Bb" ... "Zz" '.], joins by the '| character, and tests the input based on that regex. Then it takes the first character of each match.