Re: [FWP] 100 point words.

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

> 
> On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:52:35PM -0500, Brent Michalski wrote:
> > Last summer my son came home with an assignment to find as many words as
> > he could that add up to 100 points.  With A=1, B=2, ... Z=26
> > 
> > We were going on vacation that week and had 2 10 hour drives in the
> > car.  At the end of the 20 hours, we had 4 or 5 words that added up to
> > 100.  PRINTER is a word that adds up to 100.
> > 
> > Well, it was driving me nuts so I told him that when we got back, i'd
> > write a Perl program to figure this out for us.  The kid who found the
> > most words got a prize :-)  [motivation]...
> > 
> > Anyway, I wrote a program in about 15 minutes with about 20 lines of
> > code.  We ran it against several dictionary files and came up with 10
> > 4-column pages with words that add up to 100!
> > 
> > It would be fun to create such a program and run it against a
> > "standard/common" dictionary and see who could do it in the coolest, or
> > shortest, way...
> > 
> > What do you think?
> > 
> 
> For shortest, can anyone beat this one-liner?
> 
> 
> perl -e'while(<>){$t+=1+ord($1)-ord"a"while/(.)/g;print if$t==100;$t=0}'
> 
> 
> Ronald

How bout

perl -e'while(<>){$t+=1+ord($1)-97 while/(.)/g;print if$t==100;$t=0}'

:)

Ed Perry

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