Hackerrank - Detect HTML Tags Solution

In this challenge, we're using regular expressions to detect the various tags used in an HTML document.

• Tags come in pairs. Some tag name, , will have an opening tag, , followed by some intermediate text, followed by a closing tag, . The forward slash in a closing tag will always come before the tag name.
• The exception to this is self-closing tags, which consist of a single tag (not a pair) with a forward slash after the tag name:

Here are a few examples of tags:

• The  tag is for paragraphs:
• There may be  or more spaces before or after a tag name:
• A void or empty tag involves an opening and closing tag with no intermediate characters:

Some tags can also have attributes, such as the  tag, which is used to add a hyperlink to another document:

In the above case,  is the tag name and  is an attribute having the value .

Task
Given  lines of HTML, find the tag names (ignore any attributes) and print them as a single line of lexicographically ordered semicolon-separated values (e.g.: ).

Input Format

The first line contains an integer, , the number of HTML fragments.
Each of the  subsequent lines contains a fragment of an HTML document.

Constraints

• Each fragment contains  ASCII characters.
• The fragments are chosen from Wikipedia, so analyzing and observing their markup structure may help.
• Leading and trailing spaces/indentation have been trimmed from the HTML fragments.

Output Format

Print a single line containing all of the unique tag names found in the input. Your output tags should be semicolon-separated and ordered lexicographically (i.e.: alphabetically). Do not print the same tag name more than once.

Sample Input

2
<p><a href="http://www.quackit.com/html/tutorial/html_links.cfm">Example Link</a></p>
<div class="more-info"><a href="http://www.quackit.com/html/examples/html_links_examples.cfm">More Link Examples...</a></div>

Sample Output

a;div;p

Explanation

The first line contains  tag names: .
The second line contains  tag names: .
Our set of unique tag names is .
When we order these alphabetically and print them as semicolon-separated values, we get "".

Solution in python

import sys, re

input()
html = sys.stdin.read()
tags =  set(re.findall("<\s*([a-z0-9]+)", html))
tags = list(tags)
tags.sort()
print(";".join(tags))