RE: $100 Contest Question
- Posted by bensler at mail.com Mar 03, 2002
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These were my assumtions also. But I'd like to know for sure. Chris Derek Parnell wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <bensler at mail.com> > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com> > Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 4:22 PM > Subject: RE: $100 Contest Question > > > > about hyphens, and apostrophes? > > > > I documented my assumptions in the source code. For this one, it was > than > any character in the pattern text, whose ASCII value is higher than > SPACE, > is meant to be an exact-match character. Meaning that the integers 0 to > 32 > are reserved for inexact matches. > > On a similar point I made the assumption that a pattern of {4,6,9} is > equivalent to {1,2,3}. In other words, the actual value of the pattern > characters is not important, only that they represent a unique character > in > the target word(s). > > -------- > Derek. > >