Re: [FWP] Puzzle thread on clpmod

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 10:33:46AM -0700, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> At 01:21 PM 7/7/99 -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 12:51:00PM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> > > How about the slightly shorter (join '', sort split //, lc) =~ /^abcde/
> >
> >Shorter but incorrect (see clpmod).  It does not work properly with
> >duplicate letters, and it does not require the 5 letters to be consecutive.
> 
> Well the consecutive nature is handled by the sort (which will arrange them 
> into consecutive order if they're there), so you could try:

No, the consecutive order is _ruined_ by the sort.  The letters must be
consecutive in the original word.  After it's sorted, of course they're
consecutive, but that's meaningless.


Ronald

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