[Nolug] Fwd: Perl Quiz-of-the-Week #9

Back to reality...

Brett
--- Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com> wrote:
> To: perl-qotw@plover.com
> Subject: Perl Quiz-of-the-Week #9
> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:03:20 -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
> cosa que pueda echar a perder la resolución del problema hasta
> que hayan pasado por lo menos 60 horas desde el envío de este
> mensaje. Gracias.
>
> IMPORTANT: S'il vous plaît, attendez au minimum 60 heures après la
> date de ce message avant de poster solutions, indices ou autres
> révélations. Merci.
>
> WICHTIG: Bitte schicken Sie keine Lösungen, Tipps oder Hinweise für
> diese Aufgabe vor Ablauf von 60 Stunden nach dem Datum dieser
> Mail. Danke.
>
> BELANGRIJK: Stuur aub geen oplossingen, hints of andere tips in de
> eerste 60 uur na het verzendingstijdstip van dit
> bericht. Waarvoor dank.
>
> VNIMANIE: Pozhalujsta ne shlite reshenija, nameki na reshenija, i
> voobshe lyubye podskazki v techenie po krajnej mere 60 chasov
> 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.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> You will write a simple spelling checker program, similar to the Unix
> 'spell' utility.
>
> The program should be called 'spel'. It will read a document from
> standard input and print on standard output a list of all the
> misspelled words in the document. If any command line arguments are
> given, 'spel' should read those files instead of the standard input.
>
> The output words should be in lexicographic order, and no word should
> appear more than once in the output.
>
> 'spel' will be given one or more dictionaries of words that are
> already spelled correctly. It will always try to read the file
> '/usr/dict/words'. It will also try to read '.spel' files from
> certain directories. If the user has set an environment variable
> SPELWORDS, 'spel' should interpret its value as a :-separated list of
> directories to be searched for '.spel' files. If no SPELWORDS
> variable is set, 'spel' should search in the user's home directory and
> in the current directory.
>
> If you need a sample dictionary, you can obtain one from
>
> http://perl.plover.com/qotw/words/
>
> * * *
>
> P.S.: I'm sorry that this week's quiz (and last week's reports) are
> late. I was detained all through Tuesday and Wednesday by other
> business. I hope to send out last week's reports tonight.
>
> P.P.S: Yesterday was Perl's 15th birthday. Happy birthday, Perl!
>

=====
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set eFax (253)484-8755
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