OpenEuphoria

Re: $100.00 Programming Contest

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Mar 01, 2002
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On 1 Mar 2002, at 20:48, Robert Craig wrote:

> 
> David Cuny writes:
> 
> > 0. Will all words appear in Junko's dictionary?
> 
> Not necessarily, but you can count on the vast majority
> of them being there, say 90% or more.
> 
> > 1. Does case matter? That is, the encrypted 
> > string "This is encrypted" and 
> > "THIS IS ENCRYPTED" are essentially the same thing.
> 
> You'll know the case from the case of letters in the input.
> Your output should have the same case.
> Maybe I don't understand what you mean.

But words.txt is all caps. Will you be doing that annoying LeTtEr CaSe
sWiTcHiNg?
Will 'T' = 't' , because the webpage on the contest gave only this as an example
of
the "decode using this key" :

For example, if the standard input file is: 

PQRSTUVZABCDEFGHWXYIJKLMNO

No absolute definition as to what 't' is.

> > 2. Can anything that isn't a character (other than apostrophes) 
> > be treated as whitespace? For example:
> >
> >  "This-is encrypted!\n\n"
> >
> >is basically:
> >
> >   { "THIS", "IS", "ENCRYPTED" }
> 
> Junko's dictionary does contain some hyphenated words.
> A hyphen could be considered part of a word,
> but in many cases it could be considered a separator
> between two words. Maybe I'll defer for now the decision about
> whether to include hyphenated words in the input.

Well, that will certainly make it more difficult to verify words.
 
Kat