The name formatter

[admin]

In pretty much every website, there are forms to fill up your name information. Users don't all capitalize their names consistently, so the website typically formats them while processing the form. The purpose of this puzzle is to format a list of names.

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[dagarwal82]

What is wrong with my output ? Verify says following :
Your submission failed to give the exact answer on the verification test. Please verify your code. For reference, you program generated these results:
CLEOPATRA
Aishwarya RAI
John F. KENNEDY
Leonardo da VINCI
Tyler DURDEN

[admin]

Looks ok to me. Could there be trailing spaces or some invisible characters ?

[Nikshep Mehra]

Similar problem here even though I have passed all test cases , I have a score of 0.

I wanted to know why is this so my submission http://codercharts.com/submission/33087.

If this data is analytic's based then only C , C++ people would score high as they are faster on Linux based machine as compared to a C# code on Mono.

[Nikshep Mehra]

What does result mean on my submission page and I wanted to know how are scores being generated.

I am comparing my score with some one
mine
http://codercharts.com/submission/33087

someone else
http://codercharts.com/submission/31560

I wanted to know why the difference in score is there the only major difference I see between the two entries is the result column mine is 0 his/her is 538.

[Nikshep Mehra]

I wanted to know how are scores calculated I am getting a zero score for all my submissions even though all my test cases pass ?

[admin]

Hello Nikshep Mehra,

it's all explained in the scoring section of the puzzle:
http://codercharts.com/puzzle/name-formatter

The score is proportional to the size of you program. Every character counts, including spaces, tabs and newlines. The more compact your program, the higher your score. If your program uses more than 1000 chars, it will score 0 points.

And since the Scoring is also set to language, it means that every language class is scored against same language submissions.
http://codercharts.com/content/scoring-system#language

[phyous]

My character count is down to 980 and I'm still scoring 0.

[admin]

It's due to \r\n, your editor probably doesn't count them as 2 characters (just count a \r\n as 1 I suppose).
Anyway, we've changed the system to remove \r characters from code submissions, if your resubmit your code, you should get a score that reflects the number of characters you see in your editor.

Thanks for the feedback.

[TheSageMage]

Should We assume that there will always be a period in the middle initial? So if the middle "name" is longer then a single character with a period at the end then it's a particle?