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Re: Reasonable assignment for a third grader?
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Date: 
Thu, 12 Apr 2001 14:11:51 GMT
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J.D. Forinash <foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
In article <slrn9dbcub.q9.dan@dodge.rv.tis.com>,
Dan Boger <dan@peeron.com> wrote:
I couldn't help it... and it's my first attempt at a one liner :)

perl -ne 'BEGIN{for('a'..'z'){$v{$_}=$v{uc$_}=++$c}}$t=0;for(split//){$t+=$v{$_}};print"$_"if$t==100;' /usr/dict/linux.words

Neither could I. This one's on sloaris, and I apologize for my mediocre coding
style. It's still much more readable than that perl mess ever hoped to be, but
probably took me longer. :)

not going into a holy war, it's a mess cause I Wanted it to be :) the
original form was 10 lines, and quite readable :)


It finds 220 such words out of the 25,000 in the Sloaris /usr/dict/words,
none of which start with k, x, or z.

keyboards
kissers

- not sure if 'kissers' is a word, but I think 'keyboards' should qualify...

:)

--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com



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(...) This must be proof that linux is better than solaris. There's 20,000 more words in /usr/dict/words on my dedrat 6.x box, and 242 more of them score 100 points. The religous wars can end now. :) Still no x or z. Oddly enough, my dedrat 7.0 box (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) Neither could I. This one's on sloaris, and I apologize for my mediocre coding style. It's still much more readable than that perl mess ever hoped to be, but probably took me longer. :) #include <stdio.h> int fd; FILE *fi; char buf[20]; int (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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