Re: $100 Contest Question
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From: <euman at bellsouth.net>
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Subject: Re: $100 Contest Question
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> From: "Derek Parnell" <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
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> > You are perfectly free to
> > reformat that DATA in your program to help speed things up. I think what
> > Robert is getting at is that for comp#2, you cannot use a different file
as
> > the SOURCE of the word list. Junko's file is the only SOURCE of words
> > permitted. If you want to create a new file based on her's, you can. The
> > time to do that will be included in the test time though.
>
> Derek this is how I read this:
>
> >From Robert
> "If you want to reformat
> her file into a different file, that's fine, but the time that it
> takes to do that will be included in your total time."
>
> This means to me that you must actually read her file and
> reformat it if you wish (making another file) but this must be
> part of your program.
>
> Which to me would be kicking a dead horse (so to speak)!
>
> Read her file, format the text, write it out, only to be read by your
> program again...hmmm hell of alot of work it seem like to me.
>
Oh I agree with you. I would be a silly thing to do. But you still can if
you want to though.
In my first attempt I had a variation on this. For the first ever run of the
program I used words.txt file, reformatted it and wrote out another file. In
second and subsequent uses of the program, I used my reformatted file. But
apparently this is no longer allowed. I still haven't had an official ruling
on this case, but I'm going to assume that I have to change the way I did
the program.
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Derek.
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