Ted Schuerzinger wrote, on Saturday, November 06, 2004 3:29 PM
: I'm an avid, but not very good, Scrabble player. Last night, I was
: playing, and suffered a major brain cramp when I got a rack
: of four vowels
: *and* two blanks: AEIUR**. I couldn't come up with anything
: at the time,
: so this morning wrote a simple Perl script using a regex:
:
: if ($_ =~/\b[a-z]{7}\b/i && $_ =~/A/i && $_ =~/E/i && $_
: =~/I/i && $_
: =~/R/i && $_ =~/U/i)
:
: to find all seven-letter words in the official Tournament
: Word List that
: have an A, E, I, U, and R. The script dutifully produced 33
: valid words,
: embarrassing me by showing that I missed such common words
: as ACQUIRE and
: FAILURE. :-) (On the other hand, I now know the word
: RESIDUA, which
: should be useful since I know I've had that rack before....)
:
: Now for my question: the above regex was fairly easy to come
: up with. But
: how would I go about coming up with an efficient regex for
: those cases
: where the rack contains more than one of the same non-blank?
I haven't seen anyone recommend this: /T.*T/i to match two 'T's. I'm not
going to compare this to $Bill's word-matching routine :).
Good luck,
Joe
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