Re: $100 Contest Question
- Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Mar 04, 2002
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5/03/2002 7:43:18 AM, rforno at tutopia.com wrote: > >Derek: >It seems to me I don't understand the rules. Being that Junko's words.txt >contains only upper case, what is the point of: >Test({1,2,3,4,'e','d'}) ? >Thanks. > > Strictly you're correct. If we read the rules it does imply that the pattern is case sensitive. "Assume that the numbers 0 to 32 are used to indicate the pattern, while the numbers above 32 are the ASCII codes of literal characters to be matched (including apostrophe and hyphen)." And thus applying lowercase characters in the pattern to WORDS.TXT would be a waste of time. Because the other competition's stressed case-insensitivity, I assumed it would apply to this comp as well. Thank's for pointing out my error. --------- Derek.