Show Country Emoji with Elixir

Show Country Emoji with Elixir

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Recently jorik posted about converting country code to flag emoji. I decided to give it a try in elixir.

My first attempt:

defmodule Flags do
  @flag_offset 127397
  def get_flag(country_code) do
    country_code
    |> String.upcase()
    |> String.split("", trim: true)  
    |> Enum.map(fn <<string::utf8>> -> <<(string + @flag_offset)::utf8>> end)
    |> Enum.join("")
  end
end

~w(us gb de pl) |> Enum.map(&Flags.get_flag()/1) |> Enum.join()
"πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡΅πŸ‡±"

But can it be simplified? Sure it can:

defmodule Flags do
  @flag_offset 127397
  def get_flag(country_code) when byte_size(country_code) == 2 do
    <<s1::utf8, s2::utf8>> = String.upcase(country_code)  
    <<(s1 + @flag_offset)::utf8, (s2 + @flag_offset)::utf8>>
  end
  def get_flag(country_code), do: country_code
end

~w(us gb pl US) |> Enum.map(&Flags.get_flag()/1) |> Enum.join()
"πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡΅πŸ‡±πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ"
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