[Nolug] Fwd: Perl Quiz-of-the-Week #7

I thought I would fwd this just one time to the nolug list in case there are any perl hackers out
there that just can't get enough. I haven't had time to complete one of these yet, but may one
day I will. You can sign up for this weekly quiz/solution emails by going to the url below.

Brett

--- Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com> wrote:
> To: perl-qotw@plover.com
> Subject: Perl Quiz-of-the-Week #7
> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:25:02 -0500
> From: Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
>
>
>
> IMPORTANT: Please do not post solutions, hints, or other spoilers
> until at least 60 hours after the date of this message.
> Thanks.
>
> IMPORTANTE: Por favor, no enviéis soluciones, pistas, o cualquier otra
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>
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> ot daty etogo soobshenija. Spasibo.
>
> Qing3 Zhu4Yi4: Qing3 Ning2 Deng3Dao4 Jie1Dao4 Ben3 Xin4Xi2 Zhi1Hou4 60
> Xiao3Shi2, Zai4 Fa1Biao3 Jie3Da2, Ti2Shi4, Huo4 Qi2Ta1 Hui4
> Xie4Lou4 Da2An4 De5 Jian4Yi4. Xie4Xie4.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Bill Gosper, a famous programmer, once said that a good way to
> manufacture word puzzles was to look through the dictionary for a word
> that contains a sequence of four letters that does not appear in any
> other word. Then the puzzle is to guess the word, given only the four
> letters.
>
> For example, what common English word contains the contiguous sequence
> of the four letters 'acur'? (Gosper says that you see this word every
> week, but that it will take you a month to figure out what it is.)
>
> Write a Perl program which, given a dictionary, generates two output
> files, 'questions' and 'answers'. 'questions' should contain every
> sequence of four letters that appears in exactly one word of the
> dictionary, one sequence per line. 'answers' should contain the
> corresponding words that contain the sequences, in the same order,
> again one per line. The input dictionary will contain one word per
> line.
>
> For example, given the trivial dictionary containing only
>
> arrows
> carrots
> give
> me
>
> The outputs should be:
>
> 'questions' 'answers'
>
> carr carrots
> give give
> rots carrots
> rows arrows
> rrot carrots
> rrow arrows
>
> Of course, 'arro' does not appear in the output, since it is found in
> more than one word.
>
> If you need a sample word list, you can find one at
>
> http://perl.plover.com/qotw/words/
>
> I would be interested to learn whether this game works in languages
> other than English.

=====
public BrettDEstrade(){
 this.email="estrabd(at)yahoo(dot)com";
 this.url1="http://www.brettsbsd.net/";
 this.eFax="(253)484-8755";
 this.iM ="YMsg(estrabd),ICQ(46248888),AIM(bz743)";
 this.misc ="A.M.D.G.";
}

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