Programming 1

[MrRubix]

I used Excel to handle this one (with the help of a VBA Macro to process everything)

[seth_slade]

Yay... Just finished it. The challenge works - there is no bug. Make sure you have the correct spacing and input the words in the right order.

P.S. - Did it in C++. It's like trying to use a sledgehammer to do heart surgery. lol

[Reoze]

I used a few alphabetic sorts and indexed the real words with the sorted words then compared, Someone mind giving me a heads up on a quicker way to do it? I've probably done it the least efficient way possible but i'm still curious how others have done it.

[leorick]

Me too, alphabetic sort both wordlist.txt content and the scrambled words, and then compare it side by side. I used excel (VBA), faster when copy & paste since you only have 30secs

[brodeur235]

For help, you should include your source code. I'm sure you'd get a lot more productive results, and you'd have less people to subtly insult, as you did MojoFilter,

Brodeur235

[gctrump]

hey, im just learning programming languages...what do you guys say would be the most useful for me to learn

[tio]

depends what you want to write. It is impossible to compare for example php with pascal or assembler

(back to the topic: I did this one in delphi)

[keeperofdakeys]

just made a python program this morning
mine checks too see if the letters of everyword are in every word in the word list

my problem is that i simply can't get the words into the program fast enough
there is no way I can do it
at the moment I'm using arguments and a run command with the words and outputting into a file in the right format

how did everyone else get the words in the prgram?

[thanaa]

i used php. copy/pasted words into a textarea form, submitted, processed the wordlist and scrambled words, matched total ascii values then sorted the remainders and did a $a == $b of scrambled vs remainders. It was major overkill. Re-wrote it for fun. just did sort on both and a quick array comparison. Much less code for the same thing.

[cy3_]

I know this isn't available to non-Windows users, but I always use Visual Basic .NET Express (free version) for quick tasks like this. Very, very easy to program, alhtough I'll admit I am experiencing the formatting problem discussed at the beginning of this thread...