same_star_char¶

Returns true if for every ‘*’ (star) in the string, if there are chars both immediately before and after the star, they are the same.

This exercise was taken from codingbat.com and has been adapted for the Python language. There are many great programming exercises there, but the majority are created for Java.

Test 1¶

Input:

'xy*yzz'

Output:

True

Test 2¶

Input:

'xy*zzz'

Output:

False

Test 3¶

Input:

'*xa*az'

Output:

True

Test 4¶

Input:

'*xa*bz'

Output:

False

Test 5¶

Input:

'*xa*a*'

Output:

True

Test 6¶

Input:

''

Output:

True

Test 7¶

Input:

'*xa*a*a'

Output:

True

Test 8¶

Input:

'*xa*a*b'

Output:

False

Test 9¶

Input:

'*12*2*2'

Output:

True

Test 10¶

Input:

'12*2*3*'

Output:

False

Test 11¶

Input:

'abcDEF'

Output:

True

Test 12¶

Input:

'XY*YYYY*Z*'

Output:

False

Test 13¶

Input:

'XY*YYYY*Y*'

Output:

True

Test 14¶

Input:

'12*2*3*'

Output:

False

Test 15¶

Input:

'*'

Output:

True

Test 16¶

Input:

'**'

Output:

True