Sasha Pachev wrote:
> Problem:
>
> Given a string that could contain arithmetic expressions, with the
> addition that numeric constants could be potentially expressed as
> times, e.g 1:36 for 96 seconds, or 2:10:08 for 2 hours 10 minutes and
> 8 seconds, also decimal fractions after seconds are allowed, e.g
> 3:45.6 or 3:40:50.67, replace all the time values with their
> equivalent number of seconds.
Here's a Python solution with much plagiarism from Hans. ;-)
Shane
import re
def secondize(expr):
def replace(match):
h, m, s = match.groups()[1:]
return str(int(h or 0) * 3600 + int(m) * 60 + float(s))
return eval(re.sub(r"((\d+):)?(\d+):([\d.]+)", replace, expr))
def test():
tests = {
'8:12': 492,
'10:12:33': 36753,
'5 + 3*6:50': 1235,
'8 / 13*15:32:20.4 - 10': -10,
'10:25 - 6:50 / 12:23:44': 625.0 - 410.0 / 44624.0,
}
for expr, expect in tests.items():
if secondize(expr) == expect:
print "%s == %s" % (expr, expect)
else:
print "error on", expr
if __name__ == '__main__':
test()
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