I wanted to bring this challenge to the attention of the stackoverflow community. The original problem and answers are here. BTW, if you did not follow it before, you should
Here's mine, but I realize it's pretty much like Marc's, some minor differences in the order of things, and I added unit-tests as well.
using System;
using NUnit.Framework;
using NUnit.Framework.Extensions;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using NUnit.Framework.SyntaxHelpers;
namespace StringChallengeProject
{
[TestFixture]
public class StringChallenge
{
[RowTest]
[Row(new String[] { }, "{}")]
[Row(new[] { "ABC" }, "{ABC}")]
[Row(new[] { "ABC", "DEF" }, "{ABC and DEF}")]
[Row(new[] { "ABC", "DEF", "G", "H" }, "{ABC, DEF, G and H}")]
public void Test(String[] input, String expectedOutput)
{
Assert.That(FormatString(input), Is.EqualTo(expectedOutput));
}
//codesnippet:93458590-3182-11de-8c30-0800200c9a66
public static String FormatString(IEnumerable input)
{
if (input == null)
return "{}";
using (var iterator = input.GetEnumerator())
{
// Guard-clause for empty source
if (!iterator.MoveNext())
return "{}";
// Take care of first value
var output = new StringBuilder();
output.Append('{').Append(iterator.Current);
// Grab next
if (iterator.MoveNext())
{
// Grab the next value, but don't process it
// we don't know whether to use comma or "and"
// until we've grabbed the next after it as well
String nextValue = iterator.Current;
while (iterator.MoveNext())
{
output.Append(", ");
output.Append(nextValue);
nextValue = iterator.Current;
}
output.Append(" and ");
output.Append(nextValue);
}
output.Append('}');
return output.ToString();
}
}
}
}