DSL Documentation

dsldoc.md

Welcome to HackerRank DSL (Domain Specific Language) Documentation! You can use our the DSL to generate code stubs that read test case data from standard input in hackerrank challenges.

• Datatypes Supported
• Reading Variables
• Writing Loops
• Reading 1-D Array
• Reading 2-D Array
• Putting Comments
• Generating Functions
• Invoke a Function
• Print a Variable
• DSL In Action
• Bug Report or Need help?

Datatypes Supported

• Integer: integer
• Float: float
• String: string
• Boolean: boolean
• Long Integer: long_integer
• Character: character

Reading variables

Syntax	Example
Datatype(variable_name)	integer(a)
At most 4 variables per line is supported	integer(n) integer(k)

Writing Loops

You can use loops to read multiple test cases.

Syntax	Example
loop(variable_name) {code} endloop	loop(t) integer(n) endloop

Reading 1-D Array

Syntax	Example
Array(Datatype,name,size,single)	Array(integer,a,n,single)
Array(Datatype,name,size,multi)	Array(float,b,m,multi)

Note: Type is single if the array elements are on the same line. Otherwise, it should be multi. Warning: Don't leave any extra space.

Reading 2-D Array

Syntax	Example
2DArray(Datatype,name,size1,size2)	2DArray(integer,a,n,m)

Putting Comments

Syntax
#Your own comment

A special comment is #StartCode, this will generate the text "your code goes here" as a comment.

Generating Functions

Syntax	Example
Function(return_type, function_name, param_type1 name1, param_type2 name2, …)	function(integer_array, solve, integer x, integer_array board)

• Return type/Param type supported:

  • integer
  • long_integer
  • string
  • integer_array/long_integer_array/string_array
  • 2d_integer_array/2d_long_integer_array/2d_string_array (param only)
  • void (return type only)

Invoke a Function

Syntax	Example
INVOKE(return_type, variable_name,function_name, param1, param2…)	INVOKE(integer_array, result, solve, n, board[n])

• If the invoked function is void, return_type and variable_name should be “void”.
• If the param is a 1-d array, format is param[size]

Print a variable

Syntax	Example
PRINT(data_type, variable_name)	PRINT(integer, result)
PRINT(data_type, separator)	PRINT(integer_array, result, +) PRINT(integer_array, result, NEWLINE) PRINT(integer_array, result, COMMA)

• The third parameter is optional. The default separator is space. The separator can be NEWLINE, SPACE, COMMA or any character.

• Data_type supported are single integer/long_integer/string and 1-d integer/string/long_integer array.

DSL In Action

Challege	DSL
https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/mark-and-toys	integer(n) integer(k) Array(integer,a,n,single)
https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/two-arrays	integer(t) loop(t) integer(n) integer(k) Array(integer,a,n,single) endloop
https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/breaking-best-and-worst-records	FUNCTION(INTEGER_ARRAY, getRecord, INTEGER_ARRAY s) Integer(n) Array(integer,s,n,single) INVOKE(INTEGER_ARRAY, result, getRecord, s[n]) PRINT(INTEGER_ARRAY, result)
https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/cavity-map	integer(n) 2DArray(character,grid,n,n+1)

Support

If you have any doubt, contact HackerRank support, our engineers will reach you.

integer(T)
loop(T)
integer(len)
Array(integer,a,len,single)
endloop

Is it possible to name the looping variable? And also to use it in the print afterwards?

How to read a linkedlist or binary tree from input kindly suggest.

Some Hackerrank challenges do include non-editable code, e.g. this. It seems that these problems' code stub has been generated using DSL. How can this be achieved?
I mean, there are lots of problems that are intended to require the use of some framework, and you cannot enforce it if everything can be put up-down. How can we set up a challenge with a read-only head and/or tail?

How can we set up a challenge with a read-only head and/or tail?

That's a great question! Did you find the solution? Thanks in advance.

Hello ! Thanks for this documentation. I've a query. Using Array(integer,a,n,single) actually declares & reads the data into a vector. Same goes for passing it as an argument to a function. Is there a way that I can get a conventional C-style array instead of vector ?

How can we write a DSL for reading queue, such that the function invoked has Queue as a parameter?

Is it possible to specify the return type as a complex type like Map in Java?

How to declare functions with pointers as parameters?