Feature #1: Validate Price
Explore how to validate stock prices for buying and selling transactions by implementing a state machine in Kotlin. Understand handling input formats, signs, and fractional prices, and learn to identify valid versus invalid price entries efficiently.
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Description
Stocks are being bought and sold every second in a trading company. It becomes common for new hires or interns with little experience to make mistakes while entering purchase or sale prices. The company has defined the fixed criteria for the purchasing and selling of stocks on its platform. In the trading section, if a price is entered with + sign, it means buy the stocks worth that amount. If a price is entered with - sign, it means sell the currently selected stock worth that amount. If no sign is entered with the price, that entry should be disregarded. Since stocks are traded in different currencies and we know that all currencies are not equal in value, prices can be fractional as well.
We’ll be provided with an input price in the form of a string. We have to validate this input so it can be either accepted or rejected. Some examples are mentioned below for ...