import unittest def match(pattern, string): """ match(pattern, searchString) returns boolean given a pattern string and a searchString and if the pattern string is found in the searchString then it returns true. Caveats: The edge case of searching for the space or ' ' always returns false. Otherwise known as a known bug.""" lenPattern = len(pattern) lenString = len(string) if (lenPattern > lenString or lenPattern == 0): return False charsMatched = 0 """ worst case scenario loops lenPattern * lenString times. """ for i in range(0,lenString): for j in range(0,lenPattern): if (pattern[j] == string[i]): charsMatched += 1 if (charsMatched == lenPattern): return True break """ unit tests """ class testMatch(unittest.TestCase): def testPatternLongerThanSearchString(self): s = 'is' p = 'this is not' self.assertFalse(match(p,s)) def testPatternShorterThanSearchStringAndNotInSearchString(self): s = 'is' p = 'does not contain' self.assertFalse(match(p,s)) def testPatternShorterThanSearchStringAndInSearchString(self): s = 'this is not' p = 'is' self.assertTrue(match(p,s)) def testPatternEqualToSearchStringAndNotInSearchString(self): s = 'this' p = 'here' self.assertFalse(match(p,s)) def testPatternEqualToSearchStringAndInSearchString(self): s = 'this is a test' p = 'this is a test' self.assertTrue(match(p,s)) def testSingleCharWherePatternIsInString(self): s = 'a' p = 'a' self.assertTrue(match(p,s)) if __name__ == "__main__": unittest.main()
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