Question

You have to create a sorted catalogue of store products. You will be given the products’ names and prices. You need to order them by alphabetical order.

The input comes as array of strings. Each element holds info about a product in the following format:
“{productName} : {productPrice}”

The product’s name will be a string, which will always start with a capital letter, and the price will be a number. You can safely assume there will be NO duplicate product input. The comparison for alphabetical order is case-insensitive.

Examples:

Input:
Appricot : 20.4
Fridge : 1500
TV : 1499
Deodorant : 10
Boiler : 300
Apple : 1.25
Anti-Bug Spray : 15
T-Shirt : 10

Output:
A
  Anti-Bug Spray: 15
  Apple: 1.25
  Appricot: 20.4
B
  Boiler: 300
D
  Deodorant: 10
F
  Fridge: 1500
T
  T-Shirt: 10
  TV: 1499

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Input:
Banana : 2
Rubic's Cube : 5
Raspberry P : 4999
Rolex : 100000
Rollon : 10
Rali Car : 2000000
Pesho : 0.000001
Barrel : 10

Output:
B
  Banana: 2
  Barrel: 10
P
  Pesho: 0.000001
R
  Rali Car: 2000000
  Raspberry P: 4999
  Rolex: 100000
  Rollon: 10
  Rubic's Cube: 5

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As output you must print all the products in a specified format. They must be ordered exactly as specified above. The products must be divided into groups, by the initial of their name. The group’s initial should be printed, and after that the products should be printed with 2 spaces before their names. For more info check the examples presented above.

Answer 1

My answer:

function solve(dataRows) {
    let initialsMap = new Map();
    for (let dataRow of dataRows) {
        let [productsName,productsPrice]=dataRow.split(/\s:\s/g);
        let initial = productsName[0];
        if (!initialsMap.has(initial)) {
            initialsMap.set(initial, new Map());
        }
        let productsMap = initialsMap.get(initial);
        productsMap.set(productsName, productsPrice);
    }

    let sortedInitials = [...initialsMap].sort();

    for (let [initial,productsMap] of sortedInitials) {
        console.log(initial);
        let sortedProducts = [...productsMap].sort();
        for (let [name,price] of sortedProducts) {
            console.log(`  ${name}: ${price}`);
        }
    }

    // function sortAlphabetically(a,b) {
    //     return a[0].localeCompare(b[0]);  //a[0] klucha
    // }
}

solve([
    'Appricot : 20.4',
    'Fridge : 1500',
    'TV : 1499',
    'Deodorant : 10',
    'Boiler : 300',
    'Apple : 1.25',
    'Anti-Bug Spray : 15',
    'T-Shirt : 10'

]);