That approach has a dependence on the user's input text. For example, consider nineightwo
That said, another approach I have been told of was putting the digit name before and after the digit in the replacement text. -- Raul On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 12:28 PM LdBeth <andp...@foxmail.com> wrote: > > A very clever gimmick I saw from https://xpqz.github.io/AoC-day1/ > is replace the following composite words: > > 'oneight' 'eightwo' 'nineight' 'twone' 'sevenine' 'eighthree' > > by > > '18' '82' '98' '21' '79' '83' > > And it totally works XD > > >>>>> In <camw+kcrhcen_ntks0h50qbulrt-2ctxzapjr-uxqjafref0...@mail.gmail.com> > >>>>> David Pinchbeck <dpinc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm trying to improve my J using Advent of Code, but am already a bit > > stuck on the second part of day 1. It seems late enough in the day now to > > ask this question without spoiling anything. > > > On the example code one needs to turn the string 'eightwothree' into '8wo3' > > I tried the following, which fails because the priority of stringreplace > > comes from the left argument ordering: > > > digs=:'0123456789' > > > s=:'zero';'one';'two';'three';'four';'five';'six';'seven';'eight';'nine' > > > substr=:(s,. <"0 digs) > > > g=:{{ substr stringreplace y}} > > > g 'eightwothree' > > > eigh23 > > > How can I get the earliest appearance on the right side to be replaced > > first instead? > > > Thanks, > > David > > -- > > David Pinchbeck > > Associate Professor of Mathematics > > St. Joseph's College > > Standish, ME > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
