Re: [FWP] Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle (from c.l.p.mod)

["Edward M. Perry" <eperry@learjet.com>]

> This week's Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle With Will Shortz on
> National Public Radio presents a problem of a class that can be
> defined as "match a substring of exactly n characters from the
> unordered set of discrete characters { c1, c2, ..., cn }".

I heard a similiar problem which supposedly had just one solution.
A word with abcde in order but not necessarily contiguous:

/a.*b.*c.*d.*e/ 

I would like to verify the solution, but alas, no dict on the system.

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