Glenn Linderman wrote:
> It looks like you're assuming the 8th letter must be at the beginning or
> end of the 7 letters on the rack. However, depending on the open space
> on the board, the 8th letter (already on the board) could really be
> placed at any position in the resulting 8 letter wo
Glenn Linderman wrote:
> On approximately 11/6/2004 8:48 PM, came the following characters from
> the keyboard of $Bill Luebkert:
>
>>Glenn Linderman wrote:
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>>>Let's say you had AERSTTT in your rack (yep, that's the thing that
>>>holds the tiles). Now, clearly that matches the wor
Ted Schuerzinger wrote:
> $Bill Luebkert graced perl with these words of wisdom:
>
>
>>Ted Schuerzinger wrote:
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>>>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*
Glenn Linderman wrote:
> Let's say you had AERSTTT in your rack (yep, that's the thing that
> holds the tiles). Now, clearly that matches the word "tatters". But
> how would you make the regex that finds it, but doesn't find "batters",
> "matters", "hatters", "patters", and even "praters"
$Bill Luebkert graced perl with these words of wisdom:
> Ted Schuerzinger wrote:
>
>> I'm an avid, but not very good, Scrabble player. Last night, I was
>> playing, and suffered a major brain cramp when I got a rack of four
>> vowels *and* two blanks: AEIUR**. I couldn't come up with anythin
Ted Schuerzinger wrote:
> I'm an avid, but not very good, Scrabble player. Last night, I was
> playing, and suffered a major brain cramp when I got a rack of four vowels
> *and* two blanks: AEIUR**. I couldn't come up with anything at the time,
> so this morning wrote a simple Perl script
I'm an avid, but not very good, Scrabble player. Last night, I was
playing, and suffered a major brain cramp when I got a rack of four vowels
*and* two blanks: AEIUR**. I couldn't come up with anything at the time,
so this morning wrote a simple Perl script using a regex:
if ($_ =~/\b[a-z]
Allan wrote:
> I wish it was that easy, I could have a script ftp and grab them. Our
> company is very funny and does not work well between the different depts, so
> getting ftp access to a directory on another computer on the other side of
> the world won't happen. How hard is it to do what I sta
I wish it was that easy, I could have a script ftp and grab them. Our
company is very funny and does not work well between the different depts, so
getting ftp access to a directory on another computer on the other side of
the world won't happen. How hard is it to do what I stated in my original
pos
