wolfiton
I was going though the exercises in http://elixirkoans.io and stumbled upon something odd. even if my code does solve the problem i don’t get a pass.
Exercise:
koan "Be careful, a message may be altered" do
assert String.replace("An awful day", "awful", "incredible") == String.replace("awful","awful","incredible", global: true)
end
Console response
Be careful, a message may be altered
Assertion failed in lib/koans/02_strings.ex:23
assert(String.replace("An awful day", "awful", "incredible") == String.replace("awful", "awful", "incredible", global: true))
left: "An incredible day"
right: "incredible"
The answers they expect can be seen here elixir-koans/test/koans/strings_koan_test.exs at master · elixirkoans/elixir-koans · GitHub and i think is the same thing I am providing.
So why doesn’t my answer get a successful pass?
Thanks
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NobbZ
Sorry, I don’t get it… Also I do not see any relationship between the code you show here and the code you linked…
I have to say though that I never did the koans beyond a certain point… Its not a way for me to learn…
But what I can tell is, that you create 2 strings
"An incredible day"and"incredible"and assert for equality. As you clearly can see, those are not equal…wolfiton
This is the full file and I get the pass after each exercise except this one
wolfiton
Got it! It wanted only the String version of the assertion, in this case “An incredible day”