OpenEuphoria

Re: Contest Update

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Nov 07, 2004
• 500 views

Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> Jason Gade wrote:

> > I also don't understand how it failed on file8 (War and Peace) since I've
> > been
> > testing this file (or one similar) all through the development.
> 
> Don't know either. I'm not with the machine I tested the submission on
> at the moment so I can't inspect the detailed results. However, because
> you got all the top-used tokens correct, I'm going to guess that its the
> 'funny' tokens you are having problems with. My copy of file8 has been
> doctored somewhat to include some odd looking tokens. 
> 
> Check again for tokens that might contain quotes and/or hyphens,
> especially at the start or end of a string. Also, strings just made 
> up of quotes gave my program problems at first.
> 
> 
> > Hmmm... Difficult to troubleshoot when I don't know what my program is doing
> > wrong.
> > 
> > Any troubleshooting hints anyone?
> 
> I'll give a hint that some people may have tripped up on.
> 
> A file opened as "text" will appear to prematurely end if it contains
> the End-Of-File marker for text files.
> 
> -- 
> Derek Parnell
> Melbourne, Australia
> 
Okay.  So in my testing I made a file that contained edge cases identified in
the rules
and they were counted correctly.

Also I do open the file in binary mode, so... hmm.

I may need to think of some new edge cases to test for.

Currently, the program follows these rules:

--    words consist of upper and lower case letters, digits 0-9, single quote
and dash;
--    for the purposes of comparison, case does not matter and quotes are not
counted;
--    words consisting of only digits, or digits and dashes, are not counted as
words
--    unless they are quoted;
--    words of zero length after quotes are removed are not counted.

If I am interpreting the rules correctly, I will try to come up with a new
(short)
test file to validate with.

I wish now that I had saved the version of your web page that had your unique
counts
and total counts for each file posted -- at least then it would be easier to
compare
with.  It kind of sucks that the calibration file works perfectly but the others
do not!! ;^)

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Too many freaks, not enough circuses.
j.