Re: [FWP] 100 point words.

[Jim Monty <monty@primenet.com>]

How not fun is this solution?

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#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
# wordsum.pl -- print words whose letter values (a=1, b=2, ..., z=26)
#               add up to some goal n (default n=100)

use strict;
die "Usage: wordsum.pl [goal] [word list file(s)]\n" unless @ARGV;
my $goal = $ARGV[0] =~ m/^[1-9]\d*$/ ? shift : 100;
my %ord = ();
@ord{"\n", 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z'} = (0, 1..26, 1..26);
while (<>) {
    next unless m/^[A-Za-z]+$/;
    my $sum = 0;
    map { $sum += $ord{$_} } split //;
    print if $sum == $goal;
}
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-- 
Jim Monty
monty@primenet.com
Tempe, Arizona USA

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