Even Odd in Mathematica

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Current Solution

(* Code *)

(* The Mathematica built-in EvenQ essentially provides the required behavior;
so the only code needed is the 'user interface' to make it look a little more
like a Unix command-line tool: *)

evenOddMain = Catch[
    Module[{fromNegativeDigits},
     (* oddly, Mathematica doesn't appear to provide a function which can parse strings representing negative integers *)
     fromNegativeDigits = Piecewise[{
         {FromDigits[#], StringMatchQ[#, DigitCharacter ..]},
         {-FromDigits[StringDrop[#, 1]], 
          StringMatchQ[#, "-" ~~ DigitCharacter ..]}},
        Throw["Usage: please input a number"]
        ] &;
     If[EvenQ[fromNegativeDigits[#]], "Even", "Odd"]]] &;


(* Valid Tests *)

Print /@ evenOddMain /@ {"2", "5", "-14", "-27"};


(* Invalid Tests *)

evenOddMain[""]
evenOddMain["a"]

Even Odd in Mathematica was written by:

• Ben Hekster

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