OpenEuphoria

Re: Contest Update

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Nov 07, 2004
• 517 views

Jason Gade wrote:

[snip]

> 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.

That summary is pretty good. It seems you understand the 'token' idea.
 
> 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!! ;^)

Agreed. My first attempt worked perfectly well, and fast, with the
calibration file. In fact, I thought I had everything under control
so that became my 'frozen' code. Then people started submitting
their efforts and they were consistently getting different counts 
to my program. After a few, I realized that these people were
agreeing with each other but not my results. Then it I got it! My
program had a bug (or two). My program failed all the other test
files, even though it breezed through the first file.

So how stupid do I look! LOL!

Tonight when I get home, I'll have a closer look at your results
to see if I can find any clues for you.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia