OpenEuphoria

Re: $100 Contest Question

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Mar 02, 2002
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On 3 Mar 2002, at 0:22, C. K. Lester wrote:

> 
> For the contests, what is "standard input?"
> 
> When it says, " Write a program in Euphoria that reads from standard 
> input a "cipher" line containing the 26 letters of the alphabet, 
> rearranged somehow, e.g.
> PQRSTUVZABCDEFGHWXYIJKLMNO"
> 
> does the "standard input" indicate a file?
> 
> Or is standard input the keyboard?
> 
> I know I could probably find this in the docs, but this is much more 
> reliable. :)

I was wondering this too. File input, dox box, windoze gui, or wxwindows, or 
what?

> 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.

It *is* sequential, but it's not alphabetical.

My new question: It's taking me 143 seconds to load a dictionary with the 
following code:

dfilename = "D:\\Gertie\\decypher\\dfile.txt"
readfile = open(dfilename,"r")
readline = get(readfile)
readline = readline[2]
close(readfile)

And since i don't see how i can make that any faster, can we *not* count 
load times for this contest? My puter is a K6-2-233 running win95, so it's 
prolly the slowest one here (not counting Igor's 386's), but still, i don't see 
the load times improving off the hd with faster cpus..

Kat