The next colour

Question

Challenge

Consider the rainbow as seven colours, represented by strings as Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet.
Your task is to create a program that receives one of these colours as input and outputs next in order rainbow colour. This includes overlapping Violet -> Red

Input

A string containing one of rainbow colours.

Output

The next in order colour of the rainbow.

Rules

• Colour names are case sensitive. They must match the case included in this post.
• The input will always be valid. Any behavior is allowed for invalid input.
• This is code golf, so the shortest amount of bytes wins!

Example Input and Output

Input -> Output
Red -> Orange
Orange -> Yellow
Yellow -> Green
Green -> Blue
Blue -> Indigo
Indigo -> Violet
Violet -> Red

Answer 1

SOGL V0.12, 23 bytes

k‰³d∆|ΝμHō↑≥░δ÷f‘θ⁽,WIw

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Explanation:

...‘θ⁽,WIw  
...‘        push "red orange yellow green blue indigo violet"
    θ       split on spaces
     ⁽      uppercase the 1st letter of every item (SOGLs dictionary only has lowercase words)
      ,W    get the inputs index in the array
        I   increment
         w  and get that item in the array, wrapping if necessary

Answer 2

JavaScript, 68 bytes

s=>'RedOrangeYellowGreenBlueIndigoVioletRed'.match(s+'(.[a-z]*)')[1]

For input "Red", this function first construct an RegExp /Red(.[a-z]*)/ to match the string 'RedOrangeYellowGreenBlueIndigoVioletRed' and then return the first capture result.

f=
s=>'RedOrangeYellowGreenBlueIndigoVioletRed'.match(s+'(.[a-z]*)')[1]

document.write('<table><tr><th>Input<th>Output')
for(i='Red';;){
document.write(`<tr><td>${i}<td>${i=f(i)}`);
if(i=='Red')break;
}

Answer 3

Perl 5 -p, 58 57 bytes

#!/usr/bin/perl -p
$_={(Red,Orange,Yellow,Green,Blue,Indigo,Violet)x2}->{$_}

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Now that the challenge has been changed to be cyclic the regex solution

say RedOrangeYellowGreenBlueIndigoVioletRed=~/$_(.[a-z]+)/

isn't optimal anymore (due to the double Red)

Also 57 bytes:

#!/usr/bin/perl -p
$_=(Indigo,Blue,Violet,Yellow,Orange,Red,Green)[ord>>2&7]

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Answer 4

Python, 79 bytes

z="Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet".split()*2
dict(zip(z,z[1:])).get

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Handles Violet -> Red. The desired function is given anonymously in the second line.

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80 bytes

lambda x:"Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet Red".split(x)[1].split()[0]

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Answer 5

Perl 6, 56 bytes

{<Indigo Blue Violet Yellow Orange Red Green>[.ord/4%8]}

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Exploits the fact that bits 2-4 of the ASCII codes of each color's first letter happen to map to 0-6.

say map (*.ord +> 2) % 8, <R O Y G B I V>
# (4 3 6 1 0 2 5)

Here's a nice non-competing solution that uses "purple" instead of "indigo" and "violet" (38 chars, 59 bytes):

{''.uninames~~m/$^a.\S+.<(\S+/}

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Answer 6

Ruby -n, 62 60 bytes

-2 by Asone Tuhid.

p"RedVioletIndigoBlueGreenYellowOrangeRed"[/.[a-z]+(?=#$_)/]

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Regex approach looks promising for Ruby too. However, I arrived at a shorter solution using a lookahead and directly printing the match, rather than playing with capturing groups. The list of colors is in reverse direction since lookahead is 1 byte cheaper than lookbehind.

Answer 7

Red, 87 bytes

func[c][print first find/tail[Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet Red]to-word c]

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Answer 8

05AB1E, 30 bytes

“†¾›ÈŠÛˆ¨‡—ëßigo°Íolet“#™DIk>è

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Explanation

“†¾›ÈŠÛˆ¨‡—ëßigo°Íolet“          # push a string of colours
                       #         # split on spaces
                        ™        # title-case each
                         D       # duplicate
                          Ik     # get the index of the input
                            >    # increment
                             è   # get the element at that index

Answer 9

Haskell, 80 71 75 bytes

^{Thanks to Laikoni for shortening 9 bytes!}

g x=snd(span(/=x)$words"Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet Red")!!1

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Another solution, slightly more idiomatic, but I could not get it shorter:

data R=Red|Orange|Yellow|Green|Blue|Indigo|Violet deriving(Enum,Read,Eq)
succ.read

It needs to derive Read because of the requirement that the input is a string and at least Eq or Show in order to either test for equality or show the result.

Answer 10

Java (JDK 10), 77 bytes

s->"Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet Red".split(s)[1].split(" ")[1]

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Credits

• -10 bytes thanks to Kevin Cruijssen
• -1 byte thanks to Okx

Answer 11

Excel, 85 bytes

=CHOOSE(MOD(CODE(A1),12),"green","indigo","yellow",,,"orange","blue",,"violet","red")

Uses lowercase names.

Same approach, with Uppercase letters 86 bytes:

=CHOOSE(MOD(CODE(A1),12),"Violet","Red",,,"Green","Indigo","Yellow",,,"Orange","Blue")

Answer 12

Vim, 59 56 53 52 Bytes

-1 byte thanks to tsh

2IYellow Green Blue Indigo Violet Red Orange <Esc>*wywVp

Answer 13

Retina, 65 58 bytes

$
(.[a-z]+)
L$:`RedOrangeYellowGreenBlueIndigoVioletRed
$1

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Explanation

$
(.[a-z]+)

We start by appending (.[a-z]+) to the input, thereby turning it into a regex which matches the input colour, immediately followed by exactly one more colour (capturing the latter).

L$:`RedOrangeYellowGreenBlueIndigoVioletRed
$1

Now the : swaps the stage's input with its own regex. So the previous result becomes the regex and it's matched against the list of colours. The (single) match gets replaced with its first capturing group (i.e. the next colour in the cycle) and returned. Output at the end of the program happens automatically.

Answer 14

Stax, 31 30 29 bytes

ÇôF┘≡▓ƒ◄╙>┘☼░⌂╪B<U[ÇQ╒eöΣQ╔÷n

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This uses the ring translation instruction. It replaces each element in an array with the following one from the "decoder ring". Usually, it's used to do character replacement in a string, but it can be used on an entire string too, if it's wrapped in a singleton array.

Here's the unpacked, ungolfed, commented ascii representation of the same program.

]   wrap input in singleton array
`5^bZ_9G*h]h%oM~X9e-0ZQJkb2`    compressed string literal with color names
:.j title case and split on spaces
:t  do ring translation

Run this one

Answer 15

Coconut, 79 bytes

s->"# Violet Red # # Green Indigo Yellow # # Orange Blue".split()[ord(s[0])%12]

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Answer 16

J, 67 64 62 bytes

-2 bytes thank to FrownyFrog

>:&.((cut'Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet Red')i.<)

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Answer 17

Husk, 28 bytes

S!o→€⁰w¨ṙ}ΘΞĠ«ẇ₇G²€ḃλBżḃIÿö⌉

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Maybe there are better options for managing the arguments, but this is the best I could find

Explanation

S!o→€⁰w¨ṙ}ΘΞĠ«ẇ₇G²€ḃλBżḃIÿö⌉
       ¨ṙ}ΘΞĠ«ẇ₇G²€ḃλBżḃIÿö⌉    Compressed string with all the colors
                                "Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet"
      w                         Split on spaces
S                               Pass the list to both the following functions:
    €⁰                          1) Find the index of the input in the list
  o→                                  and increase it by one
 !                              2) Get the element of the list at the
                                   resulting position (indexing is cyclical)

Answer 18

R, 109 93 bytes

function(x){y=c("Red","Orange","Yellow","Green","Blue","Indigo","Violet");y[match(x,y)%%7+1]}

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-16 thanks to Giuseppe for the use of match advice

Answer 19

IBM/Lotus Notes Formula Language, 79 74 bytes

@Left(@Right("Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet Red ";a+" ");" ")

Previous version for 79:

R:=@Explode("Red,Orange,Yellow,Green,Blue,Indigo,Violet,Red");R[@Member(a;R)+1]

Takes input from an editable text field called a.

There is no TIO for formula language so here's a couple of screenshots.

Answer 20

Gema, 67 characters

*=@subst{*\?<J>=\?\$2\;\?=;RedOrangeYellowGreenBlueIndigoVioletRed}

Sample run:

bash-4.4$ echo -n Yellow | gema '*=@subst{*\?<J>=\?\$2\;\?=;RedOrangeYellowGreenBlueIndigoVioletRed}'
Green

bash-4.4$ echo -n Violet | gema '*=@subst{*\?<J>=\?\$2\;\?=;RedOrangeYellowGreenBlueIndigoVioletRed}'
Red

Gema, 59 characters

R=Orange
O=Yellow
Y=Green
G=Blue
B=Indigo
I=Violet
V=Red
*=

Boring one. Dumbest approach ever, but quite short.

Sample run:

bash-4.4$ gema 'R=Orange;O=Yellow;Y=Green;G=Blue;B=Indigo;I=Violet;V=Red;*=' <<< 'Yellow'
Green

bash-4.4$ gema 'R=Orange;O=Yellow;Y=Green;G=Blue;B=Indigo;I=Violet;V=Red;*=' <<< 'Violet'
Red

Answer 21

Ruby -n, 75 69 bytes

a=%w{Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet};p a[-~(a.index$_)%7]

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Answer 22

Batch, 97 bytes

@set s=Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet Red
@call set s=%%s:*%1 =%%
@echo %s: =&rem %

Explanation: The call on the second line has the effect of substituting the parameter into the command and evaluating it, turning it into e.g. set s=%s:Red =%, which deletes the prefix of the string that includes the parameter. The substitution on the third line then replaces all the spaces with statement separators and comments. This works because string substitution happens before parsing.

Answer 23

Julia 0.6, 76 bytes

f(s)=match(Regex("$s(.[a-z]*)"),"RedOrangeYellowGreenBlueIndigoViolet"^2)[1]

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This handles the Violet->Red by recycling the string with the power ^ operator.

Here's a slightly longer solution without regexes:

g(s,l=split("Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet"," "))=l[(findin(l,[s])[1])%7+1]

Answer 24

PowerShell, 74 bytes

(-split("Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet "*2-split$args)[1])[0]

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Takes the string "Red ... Violet " and string-multiplies it out by two to properly handle the Violet -> Red test case. We then -split that string on input $args to give us an array of two strings. We take the second string thereof [1], then -split that on whitespace to give us an array of strings and take the first [0].

For example, for input "Yellow", the first step will result in @("Red Orange ", " Green Blue Indigo ... Indigo Violet "). We take the second one of that, split it on whitespace (which removes the whitespace), resulting in @("Green", "Blue", ... "Violet"), so taking the [0] one thereof results in the proper next string.

Answer 25

PHP, 92 bytes

$a=" Red   OrangeYellowGreen Blue  IndigoVioletRed";echo substr($a,strpos($a,$argv[1])+6,6)

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Answer 26

Kotlin, 73 bytes

x->"RedOrangeYellow Green  BlueIndigoVioletRed".substringAfter(x).take(6)

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Taking advantage of the fact that many colors are 6 characters, the ones that are not are prefixed with spaces to make them 6 characters long. Hopefully it's acceptable that some of the colors are outputted with spaces before them.
e.g. Red is " Red", Blue is " Blue"

Answer 27

SmileBASIC, 94 84 bytes

C$="Red   OrangeYellowGreen Blue  IndigoViolet
INPUT I$?MID$(C$*2,INSTR(C$,I$)+6,6)

Answer 28

Bash + GNU Utilities, 63

grep -Po $1\\K.[a-z]+<<<RedOrangeYellowGreenBlueIndigoVioletRed

The list of colours is reversed so that a regex lookahead may be used. The lookahead boilerplate is one byte shorter than the lookbehind boilerplate. Of course we can do better the PCRE \K.

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Answer 29

Japt, 45 43 bytes

-2 bytes thanks to Shaggy

`R‚sOÎÁƒYÁMwsGÎ9sBluƒI˜igosVio¤t`qs
g1+UbNg

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Answer 30

q/kdb+, 59 55 bytes

Solution:

.[!;2 8#($)`Red`Violet`Indigo`Blue`Green`Yellow`Orange]

Examples:

q).[!;2 8#($)`Red`Violet`Indigo`Blue`Green`Yellow`Orange]"Red"
"Violet"
q).[!;2 8#($)`Red`Violet`Indigo`Blue`Green`Yellow`Orange]"Orange"
"Red"
q).[!;2 8#($)`Red`Violet`Indigo`Blue`Green`Yellow`Orange]"Blue"
"Green"

Explanation:

Create a dictionary of colour => next colour, the input is the key to the dictionary:

.[!;2 8#($)`Red`Violet`Indigo`Blue`Green`Yellow`Orange] / the solution
.[ ;                                                  ] / apply multiple args to function
           `Red`Violet`Indigo`Blue`Green`Yellow`Orange  / list of colours
         ($)                                            / convert to strings
    2 8#                                                / reshape into 2x8 grid
  !                                                     / create dictionary

Bonus:

It's 53 bytes in K4:

.[!;2 8#$`Red`Violet`Indigo`Blue`Green`Yellow`Orange]

Answer 31

sed, 72 bytes

s/$/%RedOrangeYellowGreenBlueIndigoVioletRed/;s/(.+)%.*\1(.[a-z]+).*/\2/

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Example 1:

Input:

Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet

Output:

Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet
Red

Example 2:

Input:

Indigo
Yellow
Red
Red
Blue
Green
Orange
Violet
Green
Green
Green
Blue
Blue
Violet

Output:

Violet
Green
Orange
Orange
Indigo
Blue
Yellow
Red
Blue
Blue
Blue
Indigo
Indigo
Red

Answer 32

APL+WIN, 66 bytes

↑(c⍳⊂⎕)⌽c←'Red' 'Orange' 'Yellow' 'Green' 'Blue' 'Indigo' 'Violet'

Prompts for screen input of colour as a string.

Answer 33

Python 2, 89 87 bytes

def f(c):a="red orange yellow green blue indigo violet".split();print a[-~a.index(c)%7]

Test cases:

f("red") -> orange

f("orange") -> yellow

f("yellow") -> green

f("green") -> blue

f("blue") -> indigo

f("indigo") -> violet

f("violet") -> red

f("notAColour") -> Error

Answer 34

C (gcc) preprocessor macro, 74

Score is 74 bytes passed to the compiler.

Same idea as @nwellnhof's Perl answer.

-Df(c)=printf("%.6s","IndigoBlue  VioletYellowOrangeRed   Green"+*c/4%8*6)

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Answer 35

C (gcc), 88 bytes

f(char*s){printf("%.6s",(strstr("red   violetindigoblue  green yelloworangered",s)+6));}

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Answer 36

Swift, 121 113 bytes

let s=readLine()!;let i=["Red","Orange","Yellow","Green","Blue","Indigo","Violet"];print(i[(i.index(of:s)!+1)%7])

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Answer 37

Python 3, 85 bytes

c='Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet'.split()
f=lambda x:c[(c.index(x)+1)%7]

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Answer 38

Wolfram Language (Mathematica), 84 bytes

TextWords version (84 Bytes but slow)

#/.Thread[#->RotateLeft@#&[TextWords@"Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet"]]&

StringSplit (86 Bytes)

#/.Thread[#->RotateLeft@#&[StringSplit@"Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet"]]&

Built-in color names called by number, also 86 Bytes:

#/.Thread[#->RotateLeft@#&[ColorData["HTML","Range"][[1,{114,100,139,52,10,57,135}]]]]

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Answer 39

Lua, 89 bytes

c="Red   OrangeYellowGreen Blue  IndigoVioletRed"r=c:find(io.read())+6print(c:sub(r,r+5))

Outputs some trailing spaces. Example:

input: Yellow
output: Green 
space here:  ^

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Lua, 102 bytes

c="Red   OrangeYellowGreen Blue  IndigoVioletRed"r=c:find(io.read())+6print(c:sub(r,r+5):match("%a+"))

Doesn't output any trailing spaces.

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Answer 40

Tcl, 98 bytes

puts [lindex [set L {Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet}] [expr ([lsearch $L $argv]+1)%7]]

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Tcl, 98 bytes

puts [lindex [set L {Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet Red}] [expr [lsearch $L $argv]+1]]

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