Beginners programming challenge #27

[trent.josephsen]

void main(void)

main() returns int.

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main() returns int.

yikes! corrected.

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what happened to these threads??
people dont code now!?

[trent.josephsen]

I can't speak for anyone else, but I wrote a mockup main() and did some basic program design and decided I don't have time to make the entire thing. Perhaps this "beginner's" challenge was a little overambitious.

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I can't speak for anyone else, but I wrote a mockup main() and did some basic program design and decided I don't have time to make the entire thing. Perhaps this "beginner's" challenge was a little overambitious.

That's alright..
We could could move on to the next..
Is there one going to be?

[MG&TL]

I can't speak for anyone else, but I wrote a mockup main() and did some basic program design and decided I don't have time to make the entire thing. Perhaps this "beginner's" challenge was a little overambitious.

Yeah, I made one in python (which works-ish), but I had no idea how I was going to implement $ and ^.

If anyone's interested, this paper helped: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

Next one please!

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@MG&TL
Actually implementing ^ and $ was easier IMO.
You only have to try to match the first/last 'n' chars (for ^ and $ respectively ) of the string with the regex in case no meta is present.
Else trying only the first/last word suffices.

[MG&TL]

@MG&TL
Actually implementing ^ and $ was easier IMO.
You only have to try to match the first/last 'n' chars (for ^ and $ respectively ) of the string with the regex in case no meta is present.
Else trying only the first/last word suffices.

That's true. I guess it's the way I implemented it. I'll post my (rubbish) solution this evening, I have a feeling it's bug-ridden though.