Mirror and reverse text

Question

Inspired by I reverse the source code, ...

Your task, if you wish to accept it, is to reverse text and mirror select characters. Yes, yes, I know. Very surprising.

Input

A string, stdin, an array of characters, or any other source of text. All characters of the input are guaranteed to be in the printable ASCII range (32-126).

Output

The reversed text with some characters mirrored. To do this:

You replace any occurrences of the characters (, ), /, \, <, >, [, ], {, or } in the text with the corresponding "mirrored" character: ), (, \, /, >, <, ], [, }, or {.
and then reverse the text.

You may assume a maximum line length of 255.

Rules

Standard loopholes apply.
This is code-golf, which means that the shortest answer in each programming languages wins. Consequently, I will not be accepting an answer.

Testcases

(s)t/r\i<n>g[i]e{s} -> {s}e[i]g<n>i/r\t(s)
stringies -> seignirts
()/\<>[]{} -> {}[]<>/\()
{s}e[i]g<n>i/r\t(s) -> (s)t/r\i<n>g[i]e{s}
seignirts -> stringies
{}[]<>/\() -> ()/\<>[]{}
qwertyuiop database -> esabatad poiuytrewq

As seen above, the output should go back to the input if run through the program again.

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am I missing something, or the examples don't show the first rule in action? ie. shouldn't (s)t/r convert to r\t)s( ? — Gnudiff, Apr 3, 2020 at 20:33
@Gnudiff The point is that you replace (){}/\[] with )(}{\/][ and then reverse it, so the text looks "mirrored". The title was planned to be "mirror text" but that was too short, so I had to add some filler. — S.S. Anne, Apr 3, 2020 at 23:20

Bubbler · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-02 03:32:42Z

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Python 3, ⁶¹ ⁶⁰ 59 bytes

lambda s,t="(/<[{}]>\)":[(c+t)[~t.find(c)]for c in s][::-1]

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^{-1 byte thanks to @xnor.}

Changed the lookup string, so that the c in t test is eliminated.

Python 2, 63 bytes

lambda s,b='(/<[{}]>\)':map(dict(zip(b,b[::-1])).get,s,s)[::-1]

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^{-1 byte thanks to @xnor.}

Python 3, ⁶⁵ 64 bytes

lambda s,b=b'(/<[{}]>\)':s.translate(dict(zip(b,b[::-1])))[::-1]

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Just for fun using idiomatic Python. (More idiomatic would be using str.maketrans, but it's way too long.)

-1 byte for both because the \ in '\)' doesn't need to be escaped.

edited Apr 2, 2020 at 3:32

answered Apr 1, 2020 at 23:48

Bubbler

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\$\begingroup\$ In TIO,all the cases pass without using the 'r' prefix, so 60 bytes? \$\endgroup\$
– dingledooper
Apr 1, 2020 at 23:59
\$\begingroup\$ @dingledooper I was already editing my answer exactly for that :) \$\endgroup\$
– Bubbler
Apr 2, 2020 at 0:02
\$\begingroup\$ I really like your test rig, especially those unicode characters. \$\endgroup\$
– xnor
Apr 2, 2020 at 2:21
\$\begingroup\$ @xnor It's from Noodle9's answer. \$\endgroup\$
– Bubbler
Apr 2, 2020 at 2:22
\$\begingroup\$ I found a byte-save with (c+t)[~t.find(c)] TIO. FWIW, Python 2 can do the second one for 63 as lambda s,b='(/<[{}]>\)':map(dict(zip(b,b[::-1])).get,s,s)[::-1] \$\endgroup\$
– xnor
Apr 2, 2020 at 2:51

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Bubbler · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-02 00:12:52Z

6

Stax, 2 bytes

:R

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Well, um, yeah, Stax has a two-byte built-in that exactly does the job.

answered Apr 2, 2020 at 0:12

Bubbler

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\$\begingroup\$ A Stax answer that you don't even have to pack to make it shorter, haha. xD \$\endgroup\$
– Kevin Cruijssen
Apr 2, 2020 at 10:55
\$\begingroup\$ Why are you so hesitant to say that? I'm pretty sure that Canvas has a 1-byte built-in. \$\endgroup\$
– user92069
Apr 3, 2020 at 10:43

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Mitchell Spector · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-01 23:13:25Z

5

Bash + GNU utilities, 33 bytes

tr '(<[{/)>]}\' ')>]}\\(<[{/'|rev

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A straightforward solution seems best here. Really the only golfing is making sure that the backslash appears last in one of the arguments to tr, because then that backslash doesn't have to be escaped, saving 1 byte.

answered Apr 1, 2020 at 23:13

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-17 09:04:33Z

4

JavaScript (ES6), 65 59 bytes

Saved 6 bytes thanks to @Bubbler

I/O format: array of characters

a=>a.map(c=>(S='()/\\<>[]{}')[S.indexOf(c)^1]||c).reverse()

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answered Apr 1, 2020 at 20:57

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-17 09:04:33Z

05AB1E, 4 (or 3?) bytes

ºsK

Doesn't work for single-character inputs that are not in the mirror character-set (i.e. "a").
Thanks to @Grimmy for this version.

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º2äθ

Also works for single-character inputs that aren't in the mirror character-set.

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Explanation:

º     # Mirror the (implicit) input-string
      #  i.e. "(s)t/r\i<n>g[i]e{s}" → "(s)t/r\i<n>g[i]e{s}{s}e[i]g<n>i/r\t(s)"
 sK   # And remove the input-string from it
      #  → "{s}e[i]g<n>i/r\t(s)"
      # (after which it is output implicitly)

º     # Mirror the (implicit) input-string
      #  i.e. "(s)t/r\i<n>g[i]e{s}" → "(s)t/r\i<n>g[i]e{s}{s}e[i]g<n>i/r\t(s)"
 2ä   # Split it into two equal-sized parts
      #  → ["(s)t/r\i<n>g[i]e{s}","{s}e[i]g<n>i/r\t(s)"]
   θ  # Pop and only leave the mirrored second part
      #  → "{s}e[i]g<n>i/r\t(s)"
      # (after which it is output implicitly)

3-byter ºsK passes all test cases. It fails if the input is a single letter, though. — Grimmy, Apr 6, 2020 at 8:50

Surculose Sputum · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-01 20:53:34Z

Python 3, 69 bytes

lambda s,t=r"()/\[]{}<>":[[c,t[t.find(c)^1]][c in t]for c in s][::-1]

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Input: A sequence of character.
Output: The reversed string, as list of characters.

How:
For each character c:

c in t checks if c is a bracket.
t.find(c) finds the index of c in the bracket string. t.find(c)^1 finds the index of the mirrored bracket, which is 1 more or 1 less than the index of c.
[c,t[t.find(c)^1]][c in t] evaluates to the same character if c is not a bracket, otherwise evaluates to the mirrored bracket.
[::-1] reverses the result.

Neil · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-01 20:56:04Z

2

Retina 0.8.2, 22 bytes

T`(/<[{}]>\\)`Ro
O^$`.

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T`(/<[{}]>\\)`Ro

Transliterate the string (/<[{}]>\) to its reverse.

O^$`.

Reverse the whole string.

answered Apr 1, 2020 at 20:56

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Neil · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-01 23:07:20Z

Charcoal, 13 bytes

Ｐθ‖ＴＦθ¿№βι←ι←

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Ｐθ

Print the input string without moving the cursor.

‖Ｔ

Reflect the canvas. This mirrors the characters ()/\<>[]{}bdpq.

Ｆθ

Loop over the original string.

¿№βι

Is the current character a b, d, p, q (or any other lowercase letter that wouldn't have been transformed)?

←ι

If so then replace it with the original lowercase letter and move left.

←

Otherwise leave the current character, which might be a transformed ()/\<>[]{}.

Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-17 09:04:33Z

2

batch, 442 408 bytes

@Echo off&Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
for %%A in (a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z)do Set %%A=%%A
for %%B in ("(=)",")=(","<=>",">=<","[=]","]=[","{=}","}={","/=\","\=/")do Set "%%~B"
Set "_=%~1"
Call :M
Echo(!$!
Endlocal
Exit /B
:M
For /L %%C in (0,1,256)do (
If "!_:~%%C,1!"=="" Exit /B
Set ".=!_:~%%C,1!"
For %%D in ("!.!")do IF "!%%~D!"=="" (Set "$= !$!")Else (Set "$=!%%~D!!$!")
)

Output:

edited Jun 17, 2020 at 9:04

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answered Apr 3, 2020 at 4:02

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Noodle9 · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-13 04:42:24Z

2

C (gcc), ^{112 \$\cdots\$ 84} 83 bytes

Saved a whopping 27 bytes thanks to Bubbler!!!
Saved a byte thanks to dingledooper!!!
Saved a byte thanks to ceilingcat!!!

char*t,*b="()/\\<>[]{}";f(char*s){*s&&putchar((t=index(b,*s))?b[t-b^1]:*s,f(s+1));}

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answered Apr 2, 2020 at 0:17

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\$\begingroup\$ 85 bytes \$\endgroup\$
– Bubbler
Apr 2, 2020 at 0:41
\$\begingroup\$ @Bubbler Amazing recusive refactoring - thanks! :-) \$\endgroup\$
– Noodle9
Apr 2, 2020 at 0:47
\$\begingroup\$ You can save 1 byte by replacing strchr with index instead. \$\endgroup\$
– dingledooper
Apr 2, 2020 at 3:09
\$\begingroup\$ @dingledooper Nice one - thanks! :-) \$\endgroup\$
– Noodle9
Apr 2, 2020 at 6:37
\$\begingroup\$ @ceilingcat Clever - thanks! :-) \$\endgroup\$
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Noodle9 · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-01 22:04:07Z

1

Python 3, ^{111 \$\cdots\$ 75} 69 bytes

lambda s,b=r'()/\<>[]{}':[[c,b[b.find(c)^1]][c in b]for c in s][::-1]

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edited Apr 1, 2020 at 22:04

answered Apr 1, 2020 at 20:34

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\$\begingroup\$ I really like your test rig, especially those Unicode characters. \$\endgroup\$
– xnor
Apr 2, 2020 at 2:22
\$\begingroup\$ @xnor Thanks, have them memorised they're so useful. :D \$\endgroup\$
– Noodle9
Apr 2, 2020 at 6:40

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Olivier Grégoire · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-02 11:06:32Z

1

Java (JDK), 111 bytes

s->{var a="(\\<[{}]>/)";for(int i=s.length,j;i-->0;System.out.print(j<0?s[i]:a.charAt(9-j)))j=a.indexOf(s[i]);}

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Credits

-1 byte thanks to Kevin Cruijssen

edited Apr 2, 2020 at 11:06

answered Apr 2, 2020 at 10:11

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\$\begingroup\$ Woops.. 127 bytes in that case. My bad. \$\endgroup\$
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user92069user92069 · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-03 10:32:21Z

1

Canvas, 1 byte

Exactly. A 1 byte built-in.

↔

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answered Apr 3, 2020 at 10:32

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Galen Ivanov · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-03 11:48:46Z

1

J, 32 28 26 bytes

-4 bytes thanks to Bubbler!

-2 bytes thanks to FrownyFrog

|.rplc(;"0|.)@'([{/<>\}])'

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edited Apr 3, 2020 at 11:48

answered Apr 2, 2020 at 12:36

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\$\begingroup\$ 28 bytes. You don't need to append anything to the replacement array. \$\endgroup\$
– Bubbler
Apr 3, 2020 at 4:37
\$\begingroup\$ @Bubbler Of course I don't! I feel stupid, like so many times before... Thanks! \$\endgroup\$
– Galen Ivanov
Apr 3, 2020 at 6:11
1

\$\begingroup\$ 26 bytes minor adjustment \$\endgroup\$
– FrownyFrog
Apr 3, 2020 at 11:41
\$\begingroup\$ @FrownyFrog Thank you! \$\endgroup\$
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Apr 3, 2020 at 11:48

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Zanjato · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-06 18:35:54Z

1

PowerShell, 69 58 bytes

+ to @Bubbler

-11 bytes thanks to @mazzy

$t='(/<[{}]>\)'
$args|%{$a="$_$t"[-1-($t|% i*f $_)]+$a}
$a

Expects input via splatting.

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answered Apr 4, 2020 at 20:57

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\$\begingroup\$ ? [--$i] instead [-++$i] \$\endgroup\$
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Apr 4, 2020 at 23:14
1

\$\begingroup\$ ? Try it online! \$\endgroup\$
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Apr 4, 2020 at 23:39

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Galen Ivanov · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-02 06:27:58Z

0

Red, 69 bytes

func[s][reverse s forall s[s/1: any[select"()([][{}{<></\/"s/1 s/1]]]

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answered Apr 2, 2020 at 6:27

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Kjetil S · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-02 20:51:20Z

0

Perl 5 -pl, 37 bytes

$_=reverse;y|(){}[]<>/\\|)(}{][><\\/|

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Kaddath · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-03 08:47:40Z

0

PHP, 52 bytes

<?=strrev(strtr($argn,$a='(/<[{}]>\\)',strrev($a)));

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Glad that this time PHP has an elegant way of doing it ^^

answered Apr 3, 2020 at 8:47

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Galen Ivanov · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-06 18:09:23Z

0

Icon, 76 68 bytes

procedure f(s)
r:=reverse
return map(r(s),t:="([{/<>\\}])",r(t))
end

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Mirror and reverse text

Input

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Rules

Testcases

19 Answers 19

Python 3, ⁶¹ ⁶⁰ 59 bytes

Python 2, 63 bytes

Python 3, ⁶⁵ 64 bytes

Stax, 2 bytes

Bash + GNU utilities, 33 bytes

JavaScript (ES6), 65 59 bytes

05AB1E, 4 (or 3?) bytes

Python 3, 69 bytes

Retina 0.8.2, 22 bytes

Charcoal, 13 bytes

batch, 442 408 bytes

C (gcc), ^{112 \$\cdots\$ 84} 83 bytes

Python 3, ^{111 \$\cdots\$ 75} 69 bytes

Java (JDK), 111 bytes

Credits

Canvas, 1 byte

J, 32 28 26 bytes

PowerShell, 69 58 bytes

Red, 69 bytes

Perl 5 -pl, 37 bytes

PHP, 52 bytes

Icon, 76 68 bytes

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Python 3, 61 60 59 bytes

Python 2, 63 bytes

Python 3, 65 64 bytes

Stax, 2 bytes

Bash + GNU utilities, 33 bytes

JavaScript (ES6), 65 59 bytes

05AB1E, 4 (or 3?) bytes

Python 3, 69 bytes

Retina 0.8.2, 22 bytes

Charcoal, 13 bytes

batch, 442 408 bytes

C (gcc), 112 \$\cdots\$ 84 83 bytes

Python 3, 111 \$\cdots\$ 75 69 bytes

Java (JDK), 111 bytes

Credits

Canvas, 1 byte

J, 32 28 26 bytes

PowerShell, 69 58 bytes

Red, 69 bytes

Perl 5 -pl, 37 bytes

PHP, 52 bytes

Icon, 76 68 bytes

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