Is it an Odd Word?

Question

Challenge

Given a single word as input, determine if the word is odd or even.

Odd and Even words

Assume the general rules:

odd + odd = even
even + odd = odd
odd + even = odd
even + even = even

In the alphabet, the odd letters are:

aeiou

And the even letters are:

bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz

The same applies to capital letters (AEIOU are odd and BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ are even).

You then 'add' each of the letters in the word together. For example, the word cats is equivalent to:

even + odd + even + even

Which simplifies to:

odd + even

Which simplifies further to:

odd

So the word cats is odd.

Examples

Input:  trees
Output: even

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Input:  brush
Output: odd

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Input:  CAts
Output: odd

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Input:  Savoie
Output: even

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Input:  rhythm
Output: even

Rules

All input will be a single word which will only contain alphabetical characters.

If the word is odd, output a truthy value. If the word is even, output a falsey value.

Winning

The shortest code in bytes wins.

Answer 1

EXCEL, 79 bytes:

=MOD(SUMPRODUCT(LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(LOWER(A1),{"a","e","i","o","u"},""))),2)

input:
This function can be placed anywhere EXCEPT A1
Put your word in question into A1.

Output: 0 if even, 1 if odd.

Answer 2

JavaScript (ES6), 34 41 33 32 bytes

Saved 1 bytes thanks to Arnauld:

s=>~s.split(/[aeiou]/i).length&1

• Odd word : returns 1
• Even words : returns 0

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Previous solutions:

33 bytes thanks to Arnauld:

s=>s.split(/[aeiou]/i).length&1^1

• Odd word : returns 1
• Even words : returns 0

Another way without bitwise operators:

s=>++s.split(/[aeiou]/i).length%2

41 bytes:

(s,a=s.match(/[aeiou]/ig))=>a&&a.length%2

• Odd word : returns 1
• Even words with odd letters : returns 0
• Even words with no odd letters : returns null

42 bytes to return 0 instead of null:

(s,a=s.match(/[aeiou]/ig))=>a?a.length%2:0

34 bytes, breaks on words with no odd letters:

f=s=>s.match(/[aeiou]/ig).length%2

Saved 2 bytes thanks to Shaun H

s=>s.match(/[aeiou]/ig).length%2

Answer 3

C, 42 bytes

f(char*s){return*s&&2130466>>*s&1^f(s+1);}

This works with GCC 4.x on a x86-64 CPU. Results may vary with different setups.

Test it on repl.it.

At the cost of 5 more bytes, undefined behavior can be avoided, so the code should work as long as ints are at least 32 bits wide.

f(char*s){return*s&&2130466>>(*s&31)&1^f(s+1);}

How it works

Modulo 32, the character codes of all odd letters are 1, 5, 9, 15, and 21. 2130466 is the 32-bit integer that has set bits at these positions and unset bits at all others.

When f is called on a string, it first checks if the first character of the string is a null byte (string terminator). If it is, *s yields 0 and f returns 0. Otherwise, *s yield the character code of a letter and the right argument of the logical AND (&&) is executed.

For >>, GCC generates a shift instruction. On a x86-64 CPU, the corresponding instruction for a 32-bit integer ignores all but the lower 5 bits of the right argument, which avoids reducing *s modulo 32. The right shift and the following bitwise AND with 1 extracts the bit of 2130466 that corresponds to the letter, which will be 1 if and only if the letter is odd.

Afterwards, we increment the pointer s (effectively discarding the first letter), call f recursively on the beheaded string, and take the bitwise XOR of the result from above and the result of the recursive call.

Answer 4

sed 44 (42 + 1 for -n) 43

-1 thanks to Neil

s/[aeiou][^aeiou]*[aeiou]//gi
/[aeiou]/Ico

Prints o for odd and nothing for even

Answer 5

Python, 41 bytes

lambda s:sum(map(s.count,"aeiouAEIOU"))%2

Answer 6

Brain-Flak 206 196 192 178 + 3 = 181 bytes

Try it Online!

([]<{({}[((((((()()())){}){}){}){}){}()]){({}[({}())]){({}[({})]){({}[({}()())]){({}[({})]){({}<>)(<>)}}}}}{}{}}><>[[]]<>()()){(({}[<>(())<>()()])){{}({}())((<>)<>)}{}}{}<>({}<>)  

This requires the -c flag to run in ASCII mode adding an extra 3 bytes to the length of the program.

Ungolfed

([]<
{({}[(((((()()()){}){}){}){}){}()])
 {
  ({}[()()()()])
  {
   ({}[()()()()])
   {
    ({}[(()()()){}])
    {
     ({}[(()()()){}])
     {
      ({}<>)
      (<>)
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
 {}
}
><>[[]]<>)
(<(()()<>)>)<>{({}[()])<>(({}()[({})])){{}(<({}({}))>)}{}<>}{}<>({}<{}><>)

Explanation

First store the stack height for future purposes

([]<...>

Then while the stack is not empty (assumes that none of the characters is zero)

{...}

Subtract ninety seven (and store 3 for later optimizations)

({}[((((((()()())){}){}){}){}){}()])

If it is not zero (i.e. not a)

{...}

Subtract 4 (and store 4 for later optimizations)

({}[({}())])

If it is not zero (i.e. not e)

{...}

Subtract 4 (and store 4 for later optimizations)

({}[({})])

If it is not zero (i.e. not i)

{...}

Subtract 6 (and store 6 for later optimizations)

({}[({}()())])

If it is not zero (i.e. not o)

{...}

Subtract 6 (store 6 because the program expects one later)

({}[({})])

If it is not zero (i.e. not u)

{...}

Move the remainder to the other stack and put a zero on the active stack to escape all of the ifs

({}<>)(<>)

Once all of the ifs have been escaped remove the zero and the six

{}{}

Once all the characters have been processed subtract the height of the offset from the originally stored height.

...<>[[]]<>)

Mod by two

{(({}[<>(())<>()()])){{}({}())((<>)<>)}{}}{}<>({}<>) 

Answer 7

05AB1E, 6 bytes

lžMÃgÉ

Explanation

l       # convert to lower case
 žMÃg   # count odd letters
     É  # true if odd else false

Try it online!

Answer 8

Brain-Flak, 524, 446, 422 bytes

{(<((((()()()()){}){}){}<>)>)<>{({}[()])<>(({}[({})]())){{}(<({}({}))>)}{}<>}{}<>([(((({}<{}<>>))))]()){(<{}>)<>({}[()])<>}<>({}())<>{}([{}]()()()()()){(<{}>)<>({}[()])<>}<>({}())<>{}(((()()())){}{}[{}]){(<{}>)<>({}[()])<>}<>({}())<>{}(((()()()()())){}{}[{}]){(<{}>)<>({}[()])<>}<>({}())<>{}((((()()()){}())){}{}[{}]){(<{}>)<>({}[()])<>}<>({}())<>{}}(<(()())>)<>{({}[()])<>(({}[({})]())){{}(<({}({}))>)}{}<>}{}<>({}<{}<>>)

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Ungolfed, more readable version:

{((((()()()()){}){}){})(<({}<>)>)<>{({}[()])<>(({}()[({})])){{}(<({}({}))>)}{}<>}{}<>({}<{}><>)((((({})))))
(())
({}[{}]){(<{}>)<>({}[()])<>}<>({}())<>{}
(()()()()())
({}[{}]){(<{}>)<>({}[()])<>}<>({}())<>{}
(()()()()()()()()())
({}[{}]){(<{}>)<>({}[()])<>}<>({}())<>{}
(()()()()()()()()()()()()()()())
({}[{}]){(<{}>)<>({}[()])<>}<>({}())<>{}
(()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()())
({}[{}])
{(<{}>)<>({}[()])<>}<>({}())<>{}}<>(()())(<({}<>)>)<>{({}[()])<>(({}()[({})])){{}(<({}({}))>)}{}<>}{}<>({}<{}><>){{}([()])
(<><>)}({}{}())

Answer 9

Jelly, 13 12 11 bytes

-1 byte thanks to @Luis Mendo (use Ḃ to replace %2)
-1 byte thanks to @Dennis (use a string compression)

Œlf“¡ẎṢɱ»LḂ

All test cases are at TryItOnline

How?

Œlf“¡ẎṢɱ»LḂ - Main link takes an argument - s
Œl          - lowercase(s)
   “¡ẎṢɱ»   - string of lowercase vowels (compression using the words a and eoui)
  f         - filter - keep only the vowels
         L  - length - the number of vowels
          Ḃ - Bit (modulo 2)

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Non-competing, 5 bytes (since I just added the function Øc)

fØcLḂ

Test cases also at TryItOnline

Same as above, but Øc yields the Latin alphabet's vowels, 'AEIOUaeiou'

Answer 10

Python, 42 bytes

lambda s:sum(c in"aeiouAEIOU"for c in s)%2

Not a whole lot to explain here. An unnamed function that returns 0 or 1.

Answer 11

Haskell, 38 37 bytes

odd.length.filter(`elem`"aeiouAEIOU")

Thanks to Angs for one byte!

Answer 12

Python 3, 53 Bytes

This can probably be golfed further:

lambda n:[x in 'aeiou' for x in n.lower()].count(1)&1

Answer 13

C 52 bytes

h(o){o=strpbrk(o,"aeiouAEIOU");return o?1^h(o+1):0;}

the main and the result:

main()
{int   k;
 char *a[]={"trees","brush","CAts","Savoie","rhythm", 0};

 for(k=0;a[k];++k)
     printf("[%s]=%s\n", a[k], h(a[k])?"odd":"even");
}

/*
91
[trees]=even
[brush]=odd
[CAts]=odd
[Savoie]=even
[rhythm]=even

*/

Answer 14

Pyth, 14 bytes

%l@"aeiou"rQ02

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Explanation:

  @"aeiou"       Grab only the vowels
          rQ0      From lowercased input
 l                 Get the length of this
%            2     And mod 2 to check for oddness

Answer 15

Ruby, 30 bytes

->w{w.scan(/[aeiou]/i).size%2}

Answer 16

Vim, 32, 31, 29 keystrokes

:s/[^aeiou]//gi
C<C-r>=len(@")%2<cr>

Since the V interpreter is backwards compatible, you can try it online! right here.

One Three bytes saved thanks to m-chrzan!

Answer 17

Java, 73

boolean f(String s){return s.replaceAll("(?i)[^aeiou]","").length()%2>0;}

saw a couple other java answers, otherwise wouldn't have shared. Thanks to Phaeze for saving a byte.

Answer 18

dimwit, 14 bytes (non-competing)

ar[aeiou]}et}T

I thought this would be a fun, simple challenge to start with for a new language.

Explanation

• a - push a new array to the matrix
• r[aeiou]} - count occurrences of all values matching the regex "[aeiou]" in the first array (since the first array contains the input), ignoring case, and push that value to the end of the last array.
• e - if the last number in the last array is even (which we set to the number of occurrences), perform the next operations up until a closing bracket ("}")
• t - stop execution, clear the matrix, and set the first value to be false
• } - end of e code block
• T - stop execution, clear the matrix, and set the first value to be true

Try it online!

Use the Input field to enter the word.

I'll soon add documentation...

Answer 19

Bash, 36 bytes

x=${1,,//[aeiou]/}
((1&${#1}&${#x}))

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Zsh, 30 bytes

((1&$#1&${#${1:l}//[aeiou]/}))

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Accepts input as its first argument. Exits with nonzero if even, exits zero if odd.

We barely beat out the bash+coreutils solution!

x=${1,,//[aeiou]/}  # lowercase first argument, then remove all [aeiou]
((1&${#1}&${#x}))
  1&     &          # bitwise-and 1 with
    ${#1} ${#x}     # length of first parameter and length of stripped parameter
((             ))   # if nonzero, exit 0 (truthy in shell)

The Zsh solution is very similar, but uses the ability to nest parameter expansions to save an assignment.

Answer 20

K (ngn/k), 13 bytes

=/^"aeiou"?_:

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Returns 1 for "even" inputs and 0 for "odd" ones.

• _: lowercase the (implicit) input
• ^"aeiou"? generate a bitmask indicating which characters in the (lowercased) input are not vowels
• =/ do an equals-reduce; if there are an even number of 0s (i.e. vowels), this returns 1. if there are an odd number, it returns 0

Answer 21

Retina, 19 bytes

Mi`[aeiou]
[13579]$

Try it online! (The first line enables a linefeed-separated test suite.)

The first line counts the vowels in the input. The second line checks that the result is odd.

Answer 22

Java 7, 88

boolean f(char[]s){int x=0;for(char c:s)if("aeiouAEIOU".indexOf(c)>=0)++x;return x%2>0;}

Ungolfed:

  boolean f(char[] s) {
    int x = 0;
    for (char c : s) {
      if ("aeiouAEIOU".indexOf(c) >= 0) {
        ++x;
      }
    }
    return x % 2 > 0;
  }

Answer 23

PowerShell v2+, 45 42 bytes

($args[0]-replace'[^aeiouAEIOU]').Length%2

Takes input $args[0], sends it through -replace to remove all non-vowel characters, takes the resulting .length, and %2 to check whether it's odd/even.

Examples

PS C:\Tools\Scripts\golfing> 'trees','brush','CAts','Savoie','rhythm'|%{"$_ --> "+(.\is-it-an-odd-word.ps1 $_)}
trees --> 0
brush --> 1
CAts --> 1
Savoie --> 0
rhythm --> 0

Answer 24

J, 20 bytes

2|+/@e.&'aeiouAEOIU'

Straight-forward approach

Explanation

2|+/@e.&'aeiouAEOIU'  Input: string S
     e.&'aeiouAEOIU'  Test each char in S for membership in 'aeiouAEOIU'
  +/@                 Sum those values
2|                    Take it modulo 2 and return

Answer 25

Japt, 7 bytes

1&Uè"%v

Test it online! Outputs 1 for odd, 0 for even.

How it works

         // Implicit: U = input string
  Uè     // Count the number of matches of the following regex in the input:
    "%v  //   /[AEIOUaeiou]/g
1&       // Take only the first bit (convert 1, 3, 5, etc. to 1, and others to 0)
         // Implicit output

Answer 26

Octave, 34 bytes

@(s)mod(nnz(~(s'-'aeiouAEIOU')),2)


s'-'aeiouAEIOU'    % Creates a 2D-matrix where each of the odd letters are 
                   % subtracted from the string s
~(s'-'aeiouAEIOU') % Negates that array, so the all zero elements become 1
nnz( .... )        % Counts all the non-zero elements (the odd letters)
mod(nnz( ....),2   % Takes this sum modulus 2

This is 6 bytes shorter than the traditional approach using ismember, @(s)mod(sum(ismember(s,'aeiouAEIOU')),2), and two bytes shorter than the regex approach: @(s)mod(nnz(regexpi(s,'[aeiou]')),2).

Test it here.

Answer 27

PHP, 41 bytes

<?=count(spliti("[aeiou]",$argv[1]))%2-1;

This outputs -1 for truthy and 0 for falsey.

Answer 28

Mathematica, 44 bytes

OddQ@StringCount[#,Characters@"aeiouAEIOU"]&

Gives True for an odd string and False for an even one.

Answer 29

q, 29 bytes

{mod[sum x in "aeiouAEIOU";2]}

Answer 30

C# 64 62 56 50 Bytes

s=>1>s.Split("aeiouAEIOU".ToCharArray()).Length%2;

• We are already using linq, so Contains saves 2 bytes over IndexOf
• Using the method overload of Count saves 6 bytes
• Thanks to @Milk for suggesting a neat method and saving 6 more bytes

An anonymous function that takes a string and counts the odd letters then returns true if there is an odd number of them or false if there is not.

This new solution splits the string on any of the characters in the given char array. The mechanics of this flip the meaning of the %2 result; 0 is now odd and 1 even hence the 1>.

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