exercism/go/etl

Etl

We are going to do the Transform step of an Extract-Transform-Load.

ETL

Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) is a fancy way of saying, "We have some crufty, legacy data over in this system, and now we need it in this shiny new system over here, so we're going to migrate this."

(Typically, this is followed by, "We're only going to need to run this once." That's then typically followed by much forehead slapping and moaning about how stupid we could possibly be.)

The goal

We're going to extract some scrabble scores from a legacy system.

The old system stored a list of letters per score:

• 1 point: "A", "E", "I", "O", "U", "L", "N", "R", "S", "T",
• 2 points: "D", "G",
• 3 points: "B", "C", "M", "P",
• 4 points: "F", "H", "V", "W", "Y",
• 5 points: "K",
• 8 points: "J", "X",
• 10 points: "Q", "Z",

The shiny new scrabble system instead stores the score per letter, which makes it much faster and easier to calculate the score for a word. It also stores the letters in lower-case regardless of the case of the input letters:

• "a" is worth 1 point.
• "b" is worth 3 points.
• "c" is worth 3 points.
• "d" is worth 2 points.
• Etc.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a program that transforms the legacy data format to the shiny new format.

Notes

Note that both the old and the new system use strings to represent letters, even in languages that have a separate data type for characters.

A final note about scoring, Scrabble is played around the world in a variety of languages, each with its own unique scoring table. For example, an "A" is scored at 14 in the Basque-language version of the game while being scored at 9 in the Latin-language version.

To run the tests simply run the command go test in the exercise directory.

If the test suite contains benchmarks, you can run these with the -bench flag:

go test -bench .

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Source

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