Hate/love conundrum

Question

Challenge description

In this challenge, we only consider love and hate as feelings. If we want to utter a feeling expression of order N, we alternate between these two (starting with hate):

order | expression

1       I hate it.
2       I hate that I love it.
3       I hate that I love that I hate it.
4       I hate that I love that I hate that I love it.

The pattern follows for every positive integer N. Given N, output the correspoinding feeling expression of order N.

Notes

• Full stop (.) at the end of the expression is mandatory,
• Trailing and leading whitespaces (including newlines) are permitted,
• Output for a non-positive or non-integer N is undefined,
• This is a code-golf challenge, so make your code as short as possible!

Answer 1

Python, 54 bytes

lambda n:("I hate that I love that "*n)[:12*n-5]+"it."

• Python 2: Ideone it!
• Python 3: Ideone it!

Answer 2

CJam, 36 bytes

ri{"hatlov"3/='IS@"e that "}/2<"it."

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Explanation

ri            e# Read input and convert to integer N.
{             e# For each i from 0 to N-1...
  "hatlov"3/  e#   Push ["hat" "lov"].
  =           e#   Use i as a cyclic index into this array to alternate between
              e#   "hat" and "lov".
  'IS         e#   Push character 'I' and a space.
  @           e#   Pull "hat" or "lov" on top of it.
  "e that "   e#   Push "e that "
}/
2<            e#   Truncate the last "e that " to just "e ".
"it."         e#   Push "it."

Answer 3

C, 83 76 75 74 bytes

Thanks to @Leaky Nun for saving 11 bytes and adding 4 bytes!
Thanks to @YSC for saving a byte!

i;f(n){for(i=0;n--;)printf("I %se %s",i++%2?"lov":"hat",n?"that ":"it.");}

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Answer 4

Javascript (ES6), 75 73 70 bytes

n=>[...Array(n)].map((_,i)=>i&1?'I love':'I hate').join` that `+' it.'

Saved 2 bytes thanks to Neil
Saved 3 bytes thanks to Whothehellisthat

Test

let f =
n=>[...Array(n)].map((_,i)=>i&1?'I love':'I hate').join` that `+' it.'

console.log(f(1))
console.log(f(2))
console.log(f(3))
console.log(f(4))

Answer 5

Java 8, 91 bytes

i->{for(int j=0;j++<i;)System.out.printf("I %se %s",j%2>0?"hat":"lov",j<i?"that ":"it.");};

Ungolfed Test Program

public static void main(String[] args) {
    Consumer<Integer> c = i -> {
        for (int j = 0; j++ < i;) {
            System.out.printf("I %se %s", j % 2 > 0 ? "hat" : "lov", j < i ? "that " : "it.");
        }
    };

    c.accept(1);
    c.accept(2);
    c.accept(3);
}

Answer 6

Mathematica, 63 bytes

"I love"["I hate"][[#~Mod~2]]&~Array~#~Riffle~" that "<>" it."&

Answer 7

Jelly, 25 bytes

“ṅɠT5“£ẏkg⁷»ṁj“¥ıQ»ṙ1“it.

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Explanation

                             Input: n, a number.
“ṅɠT5“£ẏkg⁷»                 Compressed string array [' I hate', ' I love']
            ṁ                Cycle for n repetitions.
             j“¥ıQ»          Join by compressed string ' that'.
                   ṙ1        Rotate left once: move the initial space to the end.
                     “it.    Implicitly print the result, then print 'it.'

Answer 8

05AB1E, 34 32 27 bytes

Saved 5 bytes thanks to Adnan.

“I«¢€Š I„΀Š “×¹12*5-£…it.«

Explanation

“I«¢€Š I„΀Š “               # "I hate that I love that "
              ×              # repeat input nr of times
               ¹12*5-£       # take the first input*12-5 chars of string above
                      …it.«  # append "it."
                             # implicitly display

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Answer 9

R, 79 bytes

n=scan();for(i in n:1)cat(if((i+n)%%2)"I love"else"I hate",if(i>1)"that "else"it.")

Luckily in R, the default separator for cat is a space.

(Edited from original 73 byte version which didn't quite solve the problem.)

Answer 10

Retina, 42 38 bytes

Thanks to Leaky Nun for helping me golf it!

11
1I love n
1
I hate n
n$
it.
n
that 

Input is taken in unary.

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Explanation

11
1I love n

Replace every pair of 1s with 1I love n.

1
I hate n

Replace the remaining 1s with I hate n.

n$
it.
n
that 

Replace the n at the end of the line with it. and every other n with that .

Answer 11

Javascript (ES5), 99 94 bytes

function(c){for(d="",b=0;b<c;++b)d+=(b%2?"I love ":"I hate ")+(b==c-1?"it.":"that ");return d}

Saved 5 bytes thanks to Leaky Nun.

OLD 99 byte solution:

function(c){for(d="",b=0;b<c;++b)d+=(0==b%2?"I hate":"I love")+" "+(b==c-1?"it.":"that ");return d}

Another 98 byte solution:

function(d){for(c=[],b=0;b<d;++b)c.push(["love","hate"][b%2]);return"I "+c.join(" that I ")+" it"}

My code before minification:

function a(n){
  var hate="I hate",love="I love",it="it ",that="that ",out="";
  for(var i=0;i<n;++i){out+=(i%2==0?hate:love)+" "+(i==n-1?it+".":that)}return out;
}

Answer 12

Haskell, 70 bytes

g 1="I hate";g n=g(n-1)++" that "++cycle["I love",g 1]!!n
(++" it.").g

Answer 13

PowerShell v2+, 64 bytes

((1..$args[0]|%{('I love','I hate')[$_%2]})-join' that ')+' it.'

Rather straightforward. Loops from 1 up to the input $args[0], each iteration placing either 'I love' or 'I hate' on the pipeline, based on a pseudo-ternary for modulo-2 (i.e., it alternates back and forth, starting with 'I hate'). Those strings are encapsulated in parens and -joined with ' that ' to smush them together, then string concatenation ' it.' at the end.

Test Cases

PS C:\Tools\Scripts\golfing> 1..5|%{.\hate-love-conundrum.ps1 $_}
I hate it.
I hate that I love it.
I hate that I love that I hate it.
I hate that I love that I hate that I love it.
I hate that I love that I hate that I love that I hate it.

Answer 14

php, 64 62 bytes

<?=str_pad("",$argv[1]*12-5,"I hate that I love that ")."it.";

Unfortunately I couldn't work out a way to avoid repeating the " that I ", or at least no way to do it in less than 7 bytes.

edit: saved 2 bytes thanks to @Jörg Hülsermann

Answer 15

Perl, 62 54 50 bytes

$_="I xe tx "x$_;s/tx $/it./;s/x/++$.%4?hat:lov/ge

(credit to @Ton Hospel)

Demo: http://ideone.com/zrM27p

Previous solutions:

$_="I xe that "x$_;s/x/$@++&1?lov:hat/ge;s/\w+.$/it./

(credit to @Dada)

Run with perl -pE '$_="I xe that "x$_;s/x/$@++&1?lov:hat/ge;s/\w+.$/it./'

First solution (only this was mine)

for$x(1..<>){$_.=' I '.($x%2?hat:lov).'e that'}s/\w+$/it./;say

In parts:

for $x (1..<>) {
   $_ .= ' I '.($x % 2 ? hat : lov).'e that'
}
s/\w+$/it./;
say

Demo: http://ideone.com/mosnVz

Answer 16

Bash + coreutils, 106 bytes:

for i in `seq $1`;{ printf "I %s %s " `((i%2>0))&&echo hate||echo love` `((i==$1))&&echo it.||echo that`;}

Simply creates a sequence starting at 1 up to and including the input integer using the seq built-in, and then iterates through it one by one, first outputting hate if the value of the iteration variable, i, is not divisible by 2 and love otherwise. In the same iteration, it then chooses to output that if i is not equal to the input value, and it. otherwise.

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Answer 17

///, 60 57 bytes

/!/I hate //T/that //
/it.//00/!TI love T//Tit./it.//0/!/

-3 bytes thanks to m-chrzan

Input in unary with trailing new line.

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Answer 18

R, 92 90 bytes

An R adaptation of @Leaky Nun's python answer. Working with strings in R is tedious as always.

n=scan();cat(rep(strsplit("I hate that I love that ","")[[1]],n)[6:(n*12)-5],"it.",sep="")

This could probably be golfed further though.

Edit: saved 2 bytes by changing:

[1:((n*12)-5)]to [6:(n*12)-5]

Answer 19

C, 96 Bytes

c;f(i){printf("I hate");for(;c<i+1/2-1;c++)printf(" that I %s",c&1?"hate":"love");puts(" it.");}

I didn't see the above solution from Releasing Helium Nuclei which is better.

Answer 20

MATL, 37 bytes

:"2@o3]Qv'hate I that it. love'Ybw)Zc

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Explanation

The code is based on the following mapping from numbers to strings:

0: 'love'
1: 'hate'
2: 'I'
3: 'that'
4: 'it.'

The program pushes numbers to the string in groups of three: 2, 0, 3; then 2, 1, 3; then 2, 0, 3; ... as many times as the input n. After that, the final 3 is transformed into a 4, the mapping is applied to transform numbers to strings, and the strings are joined using space as separator.

:                         % Input n implicitly. Push range [1 2 ... n]
"                         % For each
  2                       %   Push 2
  @o                      %   Iteration index modulo 2: pushes 0 or 1
  3                       %   Push 3
]                         % End
Q                         % Add 1 to the last 3
v                         % Concatenate stack contents into a numeric column vector
'hate I that it. love'    % Push this string
Yb                        % Split at spaces. Gives a cell array of five strings
w                         % Swap to move numeric vector to top
)                         % Index cell array of strings with that vector. Indexing
                          % is 1-based and modular, so 0 refers to the last string.
                          % This gives a cell array of (repeated) strings
Zc                        % Join those strings by spaces. Display implicitly

Answer 21

JavaScript (ES6), 68 bytes

f=(n,i)=>n?(i?' that I ':'I ')+(i&1?'love':'hate')+f(n-1,-~i):' it.'

document.write('<pre>'+[ 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 100 ].map(c=>c+': '+f(c)).join`\n`);

Answer 22

C#, 85 83 bytes

string f(int n,int m=2)=>"I "+(1>m%2?"hat":"lov")+(m>n?"e it.":"e that "+f(n,m+1));

Recursively constructs the string, using an optional parameter to keep track of which hate/love and how many to append.

-2 bytes from this tip for checking the evenness/oddness of a number.

No optional parameter solution, 87 86 84 bytes

string h(int n)=>"I "+(0<n?"hat":"lov")+(2>n&-2<n?"e it.":"e that "+h(0<n?~n+2:~n));

This one does the same thing except determines which hate/love to append based on whether the parameter is positive or negative. Each iteration the parameter approaches zero, alternating sign.

Answer 23

Thue, 100 bytes

@::=:::
>##::=>$.
$::=~I hate that I love 
>.#::=>&#
&::=~that 
>#<::=~I hate it.
>.<::=~it.
::=
>@<

Takes input as unary. (A string of n #s)

Answer 24

Pyke, 36 bytes

2/"I hate ""I love "]*"that "J"it."+

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2/                                   -    input/2
                     *               -   ^ * v
  "I hate ""I love "]                -    ["I hate ", "I love "]
                      "that "J       -  "that ".join(^)
                              "it."+ - ^+"it."

Also 36 bytes

12*5+.daෆ   ű   l5d+12"I ":Q*<"it."+

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Answer 25

><> (Fish), 82 Bytes

' I'oov.2coo<;oooo' it.'<
'ahv'v>'et'
oop26<^ooooo^o' that I '^!?:-1oo
'ol^'^>'ev'

Doubt it's very efficient, but it seems to more or less work. Input is via the starting stack, which makes the score 85 Bytes if you include the size of the -v argument required to do so.

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Answer 26

Lua , 75 Bytes

n=io.read();print(('I hate that I love that '):rep(n):sub(1,n*12-5)..'it.')

Answer 27

///, 68 bytes

/@/1\/#love //%/hate//#/that I //%1i/% i//I %1/I % //1@#% //@/I %1it.

Input in unary - add more 1s in the last section.

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Answer 28

dc, 75 bytes

?[1-lbP[I lov]P]sa[e that ]sb[[e it.]Pq]sc[1-[I hat]Pd2%1=ad1>clbPlxx]dsxx

We're really just printing one chunk of string at a time here, and not leaving any garbage on the stack. This is great, we don't need to waste any bytes dealing with a register for our counter.

?                              #Input, works as our decrement counter
[1-lbP[I lov]P]sa              #Macro 'a' decrements our counter, prints string 'b', 
                               #then prints 'I lov'
[e that ]sb                    #String 'b'
[[e it.]Pq]sc                  #Macro 'c' prints the tail end of our message and quits
[1-                            #I'll unfold our main macro here; first step is to 
                               #decrement our counter
   [I hat]P                    #We always start by hating 'it,' no conditional needed
           d2%1=a              #Check the oddness of our counter; execute 'a' if odd
                 d1>c          #Check our counter; If we're done, execute 'c'
                     lbPlxx]   #Otherwise, print 'b' again and start this macro ('x') over
dsxx                           #Stores the above macro as 'x' and runs it.

Answer 29

Julia, 91 Bytes

Thought I add a julia solution:

f(N)=string("I hate ",join(["that I love that I hate " for _ in 1:N-1])[1:12*(N-1)],"it."))