OpenEuphoria

Re: A Puzzle in Eu -- what would you do?

• Posted by DB James <larch at adelphia.net> Aug 05, 2005
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cklester wrote:
> 
> DB James wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Remember the cautionary note in the original puzzle specs:   "The better
> > answers would
> > deal with *any* such search issue, not just double-hyphens."  Want to try
> > again, ck?
> >  Anyone else?
> 
> Yes, I remember that note, but I can't imagine what you mean. Maybe you could
> post such a bedeviling example? :)
> 
> Besides, if it gets more complicated than that, I just use Kat's StrTok lib.
> 
> -=ck
> "Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
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> href="http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/">http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/</a>
> 


ck,

I deliberately left the cautionary note a bit vague to let imagination play
around with it.

Image the search to be instead of the puzzle example, a finding of all "live"
commas in an Eu line of code of some particularly strange series of constants,
like:
constant eenie=Mangle(path&fName,"My mangling, dangling phrase", loc),
meenie=CommitAtrocity(haplessBystander, extremePrejudice, evilLawyer),
minnie=6,moe=repeat('*',40)

Heh, notice I don't define what "live" means.

And to paraphrase the first line in the specs [in Kingfish's voice from "Amos &
Andy"]: "NO-O libraries."

Anyway, try again.  Your answer will probably be better than mine.

--Quark