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God, I really hope they grasp the stupidity of using regular expressions to parse an irregular language. Implementing a very simple HTML parser takes at least a half-dozen man hours; seeing that question honestly makes Asana seem like amateur hour, and I've had to do some pretty stupid shit in my time. Snapchat, for example, had me solve Sudoku (???).
for the HTML parsing - I was able to pass all the test cases using a stack (push the tags when they open and pop them as they close). I was doing zero validation as the challenge was to take valid html. (I didn't verify that the proper tag was being closed, I knew I'd get out of bound errors due to this, but it should work for valid html)
I was using a string builder to eat the input as I had parsed it... but I got an error on submitting my result - it gave "unexpected termination" even when I had replicated the "unexpected termination" error with a custom test case and caught the error - I still got an unexpected termination error when submitting - sigh - maybe it's related to using C# for the challenge... overall not so hard though...
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How do you verify answers? Say there is more than one correct answer to a solution: do you run the code in a sandbox (with memoization) to find out if it works properly? Or is there only supposed to be exactly one proper answer for each question?
EDIT You should also provide a "reset" button if I screw up the form.
EDIT The horizontal scrolling is messed up, Google Chrome 36.0.1985.143 (Official Build 287914) m on Windows. I cannot see the right two or so characters on a wide question.
there is actually a workaround right now (not a great one but still). If you go to Forum from the top nav bar then click tasks you can see all of the tasks that you ever got during your codefights.
