Hello coders, today we are going to solve Validating Postal codes HackerRank Solution in Python.
Task
A valid postal code P have to fullfil both below requirements:
- P must be a number in the range from 100000 to 999999 inclusive.
- P must not contain more than one alternating repetitive digit pair.
Alternating repetitive digits are digits which repeat immediately after the next digit. In other words, an alternating repetitive digit pair is formed by two equal digits that have just a single digit between them.
For example:
121426 # Here, 1 is an alternating repetitive digit.
523563 # Here, NO digit is an alternating repetitive digit.
552523 # Here, both 2 and 5 are alternating repetitive digits.
Your task is to provide two regular expressions regex_integer_in_range
and regex_alternating_repetitive_digit_pair
. Where:
regex_integer_in_range
should match only integers range from 100000 to 999999 inclusive
regex_alternating_repetitive_digit_pair
should find alternating repetitive digits pairs in a given string.
Both these regular expressions will be used by the provided code template to check if the input string P is a valid postal code using the following expression:
(bool(re.match(regex_integer_in_range, P))
and len(re.findall(regex_alternating_repetitive_digit_pair, P)) < 2)
Input Format
Locked stub code in the editor reads a single string denoting P from stdin and uses provided expression and your regular expressions to validate if P is a valid postal code.
Output Format
You are not responsible for printing anything to stdout. Locked stub code in the editor does that.
Sample Input 0
110000
Sample Output 0
False
Explanation 0
1 1 0
00
0 : (0
, 0
) and (0, 0) are two alternating digit pairs. Hence, it is an invalid postal code.
Note:
A score of 0 will be awarded for using ‘if
‘ conditions in your code.
You have to pass all the testcases to get a positive score.
Solution – Validating Postal Codes in Python
regex_integer_in_range = r"^[1-9][\d]{5}$" # Do not delete 'r'. regex_alternating_repetitive_digit_pair = r"(\d)(?=\d\1)" # Do not delete 'r'. import re P = input() print (bool(re.match(regex_integer_in_range, P)) and len(re.findall(regex_alternating_repetitive_digit_pair, P)) < 2)
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