Hi @lbvf50mobile,

Welcome to the club of Kata authors! :D While you may be inclined to author a Kata whenever an idea pops up in your mind and publish it for the rest of the community to enjoy, you should be aware that published Kata are expected to meet strict expectations in order to pass the testing stage and leave Beta.

Please do read through the article linked above before continuing on your journey of authoring Kata. We're looking forward to more Kata authored by you once you have read the article mentioned ;)

Cheers,
@donaldsebleung

Ruby :

• similar to issues noted in the above, there are lots of non-scan solutions that are avoiding the intended solution which isn't enforced by the test suite

This Kata likely won't get approved unless :

• the description is clarified to allow any function to make the desired result happen (in which cases it is ~8 kyu)

• if that happens, the kata is likely going to get flagged because then it becomes a very basic grouping Kata

• a lot of restrictions are in place to force someone to either just use match or put a lot of work to get around blocks

Nice work on the test suite, aside from that anyway.

So if your intent is to disable the use of scan, you need to actually disable it (by un-defining it in preloaded.

Also you should make sure we're not using other regexes.