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 transform the legacy data format to the shiny new format.

Notes

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 "E" is scored at 2 in the Māori-language version of the game while being scored at 4 in the Hawaiian-language version.

Hints

This exercise works with textual data. For historical reasons, Haskell's String type is synonymous with [Char], a list of characters. For more efficient handling of textual data, the Text type can be used.

As an optional extension to this exercise, you can

• Read about string types in Haskell.

• Add - text to your list of dependencies in package.yaml.

• Import Data.Text in the following way:

    import qualified Data.Text as T
    import           Data.Text (Text)
  

• You can now write e.g. transform :: Map Int Text -> Map Char Int and refer to Data.Text combinators as e.g. T.toLower.

• Look up the documentation for Data.Text.

This part is entirely optional.

Getting Started

Please refer to the installation and learning help pages.

Running the tests

To run the test suite, execute the following command:

stack test

If you get an error message like this...

No .cabal file found in directory

You are probably running an old stack version and need to upgrade it.

Otherwise, if you get an error message like this...

No compiler found, expected minor version match with...
Try running "stack setup" to install the correct GHC...

Just do as it says and it will download and install the correct compiler version:

stack setup

Running GHCi

If you want to play with your solution in GHCi, just run the command:

stack ghci

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Source

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