Re: Fun - Each character at most once

2003-07-25 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Adam Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-07-22 16:02]: I wrote a program to generate these, but has an unfun tendency to take forever when the solution is non-trivial so I won't post it. If there was a better technique than brute force to find the answers that might be fun, but I just can't get my

Re: Fun - Each character at most once

2003-07-22 Thread Adam Rice
Quoting A. Pagaltzis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Basically, with all ASCII characters used at most once, you can't really write anything that needs to actually operate on data in any more but the most trivial ways. Actually, using the technique from Ronald J Kimball's JAPH, you can encode any ASCII

RE: Fun - Each character at most once

2003-07-21 Thread Alistair . McGlinchy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Can anyone improve the above so that it checks the whole of , not just one line? Bonus points for an explicit multi-character message rather than undef on failure. #!perl -0234 =~m{(.)[^$/]*\1}sandtwo contains no characters twice (except for the final \n),

Re: Fun - Each character at most once

2003-07-17 Thread Steffen Müller
Richard Proctor wrote: What is the most interesting program that is restricted to use each ASCII character at most once? Anybody who can do a JAPH like that? Steffen -- @n=([283488072,6076],[2105905181,8583184],[1823729722,9282996],[281232,

RE: Fun - Each character at most once

2003-07-17 Thread Alistair . McGlinchy
What is the most interesting program that is restricted to use each ASCII character at most once? The definition I chose was to check if a program (from @ARGV) contains duplicate chars and printing a duplicate char iff it has one. This had a sort of quiney feel to it and hence could be

RE: Fun - Each character at most once

2003-07-17 Thread csebe
Sebe, M.Sc. Freelance Analyst-Programmer www.programEz.net -Original Message- From: Ronald J Kimball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 7:25 PM To: Steffen Muller Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fun - Each character at most once On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 05

Re: Fun - Each character at most once

2003-07-17 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-07-17 21:15]: What is the most interesting program that is restricted to use each ASCII character at most once? The definition I chose was to check if a program (from @ARGV) contains duplicate chars and printing a duplicate char iff it has one.

Re: Fun - Each character at most once

2003-07-17 Thread Eugene van der Pijll
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Can anyone improve the above so that it checks the whole of , not just one line? Bonus points for an explicit multi-character message rather than undef on failure. #!perl -0234 =~m{(.)[^$/]*\1}sandtwo contains no characters twice (except for the final \n), checks