Re: contest questions
Chris Bensler writes:
> Will the input cipher ALWAYS be upper case? Otherwise the program
> will need to convert the cipher to all uppercase first, to standardize it.
Yes, you can assume that the cipher line will be present,
and will be all capitals, and will have exactly one occurrence
of each of the 26 letters.
Jeremy Self writes:
> I'm thinking of entering the Beginner's contest,
> and was wondering if using the machine code library
> would be allowed or not. Thanks
You can include machine.e if you want, and you can do
peeks and pokes if you want, but I'm going to disallow
the use of machine code routines. I'll also disallow
system() calls to external programs (that might not
even be written in Euphoria). This is supposed to be
a test of Euphoria programming skill, not machine code
or C or anything else.
C.K. Lester writes:
> For the contests, what is "standard input?"
It's file number 0.
i.e. your program should read from file 0,
using for example, getc(0) or gets(0),
and write to file 1, using puts(1, ...) or printf(1, ...) etc.
It should be possible to run your program
from a command line, such as:
ex yourprog < english.txt > coded.txt
> Or is standard input the keyboard?
Without the "<" on the command-line
it would be, but I'm not going to test it that way.
> Also, will the cipher line necessarily be sequential? For instance,
> might we encounter:
>ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
> PRSTWUVZQMABCDEFGHXYIJKLNO <-- cipher line
>
> This is a simple one-to-one replacement, but the cipher line, you'll
> note, is not sequential.
I'm not sure what you are driving at,
but the cipher line could be any random shuffling
of the letters A to Z, with no duplicate letters.
The example I give on the Web page is in sequential order in places,
but that's just because I started with ABC..YZ, and was kind of
lazy in shuffling things around.
I'll add these points to the Web page.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
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