June 2018 Update

Task/Mad-Libs/Julia/mad-libs.julia

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+function madlibs(template)
+    println("The story template is:\n", template)
+    fields = Set(getfield.(collect(eachmatch(r"<[^>]+>", template)), :match))
+    print("\nInput a comma-separated list of words to replace the following items:",
+          join(fields, ", "), "\n -> ")
+    values = split(readline(STDIN), ",")
+    for (m, v) in zip(fields, values)
+        template = replace(template, m, v)
+    end
+    println("\nThe story becomes:\n", template)
+end
+
+const template = """
+<name> went for a walk in the park. <he or she>
+found a <noun>. <name> decided to take it home.
+"""
+
+madlibs(template)