Name Sorter

A simple application to sort a list of names.

Solution

Assumptions

• Last name is mandatory
• Last name will always be at the end of the line
• Each line contains a name of a single person
• Names of a person are separated from at least one space
• Multiple spaces and tabs between names will be ignored
• Empty lines are ignored
• Pre and post spaces will be ignored and trimmed
• Names that exceeds the maximum number of allowed given names (3) are considered invalid
• Invalid names are ignored in the process and will be excluded from the output

How to build, run and test

Prerequisites

• .Net Framework version 7.0

Build

In the root level execute the following command

dotnet build

Run the app

In a terminal go to ~/name-sorter/cli/NameSorter.ConsoleApp and run the following command to get the help screen with options.

dotnet run

Options

Short form	Long form	Description
-i	--input	Required. Input file containing unsorted names.
-o	--output	Required. Output file to store sorted names.

Sample usage

dotnet run -i ./unsorted-names-list.txt -o ./sorted-names-list.txt

Running the unit tests

In the root level execute the following command to run the unit tests in verbose mode.

dotnet test -v=normal

Logs

• Log files will be stored under ~/name-sorter/cli/logs directory