Interlace strings

Question

Your challenge is to write a program or function that, when given two strings of equal length, swaps every other character and outputs/returns the resulting strings in either order.

Examples

"Hello," "world!" --> "Hollo!" "werld,"
"code" "golf" --> "codf" "gole"
"happy" "angry" --> "hnpry" "aagpy"
"qwerty" "dvorak" --> "qvertk" "dworay"
"1, 2, 3" "a, b, c" --> "1, b, 3" "a, 2, c"
"3.141592653589" "2.718281828459" --> "3.111291623489" "2.748582858559"
"DJMcMayhem" "trichoplax" --> "DrMcMoylex" "tJichapham"
"Doorknob" "Downgoat" --> "Doonkoot" "Dowrgnab"
"Halloween" "Challenge" --> "Hhlloeegn" "Caallwnee"

Rules

• The strings will only contain ASCII chars (32-126).
• The strings will always be the same length, and will never be empty.
• You may accept input in any suitable format: separate parameters, items in an array, separated by one or more newlines, even concatenated. The only restriction is that one string must come fully before the other (e.g. a1\nb2\nc3 for "abc", "123" is invalid).
• The output may be in either order (i.e. you can start swapping from the first or the second char), and in any valid format mentioned above. (2-item array, separated by newline(s), concatenated, etc.)

Scoring

This is code-golf, so the shortest code in bytes for each language wins.

Answer 1

Java, 68 bytes

(a,b)->{for(int i=a.length;--i>0;){char t=a[--i];a[i]=b[i];b[i]=t;}}

Ungolfed and testing

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.function.BiConsumer;

public class Main {

  static BiConsumer<char[], char[]> func = (left, right) -> {
      for (int i = left.length; --i > 0;) {
        char temp = left[--i];
        left[i] = right[i];
        right[i] = temp;
      }
    };

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    test("Hello,","world!", "Hollo!", "werld,");
    test("code", "golf", "codf", "gole");
    test("happy", "angry", "hnpry", "aagpy");
  }

  private static void test(String left, String right, String x, String y) {
    char[] leftChars = left.toCharArray();
    char[] rightChars = right.toCharArray();
    func.accept(leftChars, rightChars);
    Collection mixed = Arrays.asList(new String(leftChars), new String(rightChars));
    if (mixed.containsAll(Arrays.asList(x, y))) {
      System.out.println("OK");
    } else {
      System.out.printf("NOK: %s, %s -> %s%n", left, right, mixed);
    }
  }
}

Answer 2

APL, 12

{↓(⍳⍴⊃⍵)⊖↑⍵}

Explanation: {...} defines a function, ⍵ is the right argument. The take (↑) creates a matrix out of the two strings, then rotates each column (⊖) n times, where n is the part in parenthesis (⍳⍴⊃⍵). That's defined as the iota of the length of the first argument. (Ex: length=5 ==> 1 2 3 4 5). So first column is rotated once, second twice (getting back to original positions), third column three times, etc...

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Answer 3

Scala, 85 bytes

(_:String)zip(_:String)zip(Stream from 0)map{case(t,z)=>if(z%2==0)t else t.swap}unzip

take an anonymous string parameter, zip it with another string parameter, zip it with an stream of natural numbers, swap every second tuple of chars and unzip to get a tuple of sequences of chars

Answer 4

Swift 3, 129 107 bytes

func c(n:inout[String],b:inout[String]){
for(j,c)in n.enumerated(){
if j&1<1{n[j]=b[j];b[j]=c}}
print(n,b)}

Original

The function receives two arrays of strings as parameters assuming both have same length, as follows:

c(n:["c", "o", "d", "e"],b:["g", "o", "l", "f"])

Produces following output

codf gole

Edit 1:

Get rid of the internal tuple and change the parameters of the function to be inout. Instead of string concatenation manipulate the parameters directly.

Example input:

var a:Array<String> = ["c", "o", "d", "e"]
var b:Array<String> = ["g", "o", "l", "f"]

c(n:&a,b:&b)

Ouput changed to be array of strings as in:

["g", "o", "l", "e"] ["c", "o", "d", "f"]

Answer 5

Husk, 7 bytes

Tz*İ_ze

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Outputs are reversed.

Answer 6

Ly, 11 bytes

ir>ir[<o>o]

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This takes the two strings on separate input lines, and outputs the interlaced strings concatenated together. At a high level... It reads the two strings onto separate stacks, then just loops printing the top the each stack.

ir          - read first string onto the stack, reverse it
  >ir       - switch to new stack, read second string and reverse it
     [    ] - loop until the stack is empty
      <o    - switch to first stack and print a char
        >o  - switch to the second stack and print a char