Re: [Nolug] Perl of wisdom

I posted it, but I did not get around to doing it. I'll be sure to fwd the solution they send and
any new quizes that I get.
Brett

--- "michaelrflora@charter.net" <michaelrflora@charter.net> wrote:
> Somebody posted a Perl contest or quiz a couple of days ago. Well, I
> refrained from posting my answer because of the spoiler time limit that was
> mentioned. I'm not a Perl pro, but my attempt is appended below. Anybody
> got anything better?
>
> M.R.F., from Perlington on the Perl River (no, not really)
>
>
> #A program to read words from a dictionary and output all four-letter
> #contiguous strings that are unique
>
> open(INFILE,"questions.txt");
> open(OUTFILE,">answers.txt");
>
> $total = $false = 1;
> $true = 0;
> while($word = <INFILE>){
>
> if (length $word > 4) { #allow 1 extra for newline
> chop $word;
> $curword = $word;
>
> while(length $word >= 4) {
> $fourchar = substr( $word,length($word) - 4,4);
> if(index($longstring,$fourchar)<0){
> $longstring =
> join('',$longstring,$fourchar);
> $answers[$total-1][0] = $curword;
> $answers[$total-1][1] = $fourchar;
> ++$total;
> }
> chop $word;
> }
> }
> }
> for ($i = 0; $i <$total; $i++){
> print OUTFILE $answers[$i][0],$answers[$i][1],"\n";
> }
>
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: usserylaw@bellsouth.net
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:04:49 -0500
> To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] reservations have been made
>
>
> hmmm -- a "co-orker?" -- have the agents of mordor already penetrated
> NOLUG? I fear the NOLUG fellowship may be broken!
>
> Joey Kelly wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > Here's the deal:
> >
> > Thursday, December 19, 7:30 PM (regular bat time & channel)
> >
> > King Buffet
> > 601 Veterans, Metairie
> > in the old Ralph & Kakoo's building
> > 837-4383, ask for Charles (manager)
> >
> > Cost: $11 + drink + tax ~= $13
> >
> > Buffet looks great, a cow-orker ate there last night, thinks it's pretty
> good.
>
>
>
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