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The puzzle
A little puzzle I heard while I was in high school went something like this...
The questioner would ask me to give him a number;
On hearing the number, the questioner would do some sort of transformation on it repeatedly (for example, he might say ten is three) until eventually arriving at the number 4 (at which point he would finish with four is magic).
Any number seems to be transformable into four eventually, no matter what.
The goal was to try to figure out the transformation function and then be able to reliably proctor this puzzle yourself.
The solution
The transformation function at any step was to
Take the number in question,
Count the number of letters in its English word representation, ignoring a hyphen or spaces or "and" (e.g., "ten" has 3 letters in it, "thirty-four" has 10 letters in it, "one hundred forty-three" has 20 letters in it).
Return that number of letters.
For all of the numbers I have ever cared to test, this converges to 4. Since "four" also has four letters in it, there would be an infinite loop here; instead it is merely referred to as magic by convention to end the sequence.
The challenge
Your challenge is to create a piece of code that will read a number from the user and then print lines showing the transformation function being repeatedly applied until "four is magic" is reached.
Specifically:
Solutions must be complete programs in and of themselves. They cannot merely be functions which take in a number-- factor in the input.
Input must be read from standard input. (Piping from "echo" or using input redirection is fine since that also goes from stdin)
The input should be in numeric form.
For every application of the transformation function, a line should be printed: a is b., where a and b are numeric forms of the numbers in the transformation.
Full stops (periods) ARE required!
The last line should naturally say, 4 is magic..
The code should produce correct output for all numbers from 0 to 99.
Examples:
> 4
4 is magic.
> 12
12 is 6.
6 is 3.
3 is 5.
5 is 4.
4 is magic.
> 42
42 is 8.
8 is 5.
5 is 4.
4 is magic.
> 0
0 is 4.
4 is magic.
> 99
99 is 10.
10 is 3.
3 is 5.
5 is 4.
4 is magic.
The winner is the shortest submission by source code character count which is also correct.
BONUS
You may also try to write a version of the code which prints out the ENGLISH NAMES for the numbers with each application of the transformation function. The original input is still numeric, but the output lines should have the word form of the number.
(Double bonus for drawing shapes with your code)
(EDIT) Some clarifications:
I do want the word to appear on both sides in all applicable cases, e.g. Nine is four. Four is magic.
I don't care about capitalization, though. And I don't care how you separate the word tokens, though they should be separated: ninety-nine is okay, ninety nine is okay, ninetynine is not okay.
I'm considering these a separate category for bonus competition with regard to the challenge, so if you go for this, don't worry about your code being longer than the numeric version.
Feel free to submit one solution for each version.
Perl, about 147 char
Loosely based on Platinum Azure's solution:
chop
($_.=
<>);#
u="433
5443554
366 887
798 866
555 766
"=~ /\d
/gx ;#4
sub r{4
-$_ ?$_
<20 ?$u
[$_ ]:(
$'? $u[
$'] :0)
+$u[18+$&]:magic}print"
$_ is ",$_=r(),'.'while
/\d
/x;
444
GolfScript - 101 96 93 92 91 90 94 86 bytes
90 → 94: Fixed output for multiples of 10.
94 → 86: Restructured code. Using base 100 to remove non-printable characters.
86 → 85: Shorter cast to string.
{n+~."+#,#6$DWOXB79Bd")base`1/10/~{~2${~1$+}%(;+~}%++=" is "\".
"1$4$4-}do;;;"magic."
Common Lisp 157 Chars
New more conforming version, now reading form standard input and ignoring spaces and hyphens:
(labels((g (x)(if(= x 4)(princ"4 is magic.")(let((n(length(remove-if(lambda(x)(find x" -"))(format nil"~r"x)))))(format t"~a is ~a.~%"x n)(g n)))))(g(read)))
In human-readable form:
(labels ((g (x)
(if (= x 4)
(princ "4 is magic.")
(let ((n (length (remove-if (lambda(x) (find x " -"))
(format nil "~r" x)))))
(format t"~a is ~a.~%" x n)
(g n)))))
(g (read)))
And some test runs:
>24
24 is 10.
10 is 3.
3 is 5.
5 is 4.
4 is magic.
>23152436
23152436 is 64.
64 is 9.
9 is 4.
4 is magic.
And the bonus version, at 165 chars:
(labels((g(x)(if(= x 4)(princ"four is magic.")(let*((f(format nil"~r"x))(n(length(remove-if(lambda(x)(find x" -"))f))))(format t"~a is ~r.~%"f n)(g n)))))(g(read)))
Giving
>24
twenty-four is ten.
ten is three.
three is five.
five is four.
four is magic.
>234235
two hundred thirty-four thousand two hundred thirty-five is forty-eight.
forty-eight is ten.
ten is three.
three is five.
five is four.
four is magic.
Python 2.x, 144 150 154 166 chars
This separates the number into tens and ones and sum them up. The undesirable property of the pseudo-ternary operator a and b or c that c is returned if b is 0 is being abused here.
n=input()
x=0x4d2d0f47815890bd2
while n-4:p=n<20and x/10**n%10or 44378/4**(n/10-2)%4+x/10**(n%10)%10+4;print n,"is %d."%p;n=p
print"4 is magic."
The previous naive version (150 chars). Just encode all lengths as an integer.
n=input()
while n-4:p=3+int('1yrof7i9b1lsi207bozyzg2m7sclycst0zsczde5oks6zt8pedmnup5omwfx56b29',36)/10**n%10;print n,"is %d."%p;n=p
print"4 is magic."
C - with number words
445 431 427 421 399 386 371 359* 356 354† 348 347 characters
That's it. I don't think I can make this any shorter.
All newlines are for readability and can be removed:
i;P(x){char*p=",one,two,three,four,five,six,sM,eight,nine,tL,elM,twelve,NP,4P,
fifP,6P,7P,8O,9P,twLQ,NQ,forQ,fifQ,6Q,7Q,8y,9Q,en,evL,thir,eL,tO,ty, is ,.\n,
4RmagicS,zero,";while(x--)if(*++p-44&&!x++)*p>95|*p<48?putchar(*p),++i:P(*p-48);
}main(c){for(scanf("%d",&c);c+(i=-4);P(34),P(c=i),P(35))P(c?c>19?P(c/10+18),
(c%=10)&&putchar(45):0,c:37);P(36);}
Below, it is somewhat unminified, but still pretty hard to read. See below for a more readable version.
i;
P(x){
char*p=",one,two,three,four,five,six,sM,eight,nine,tL,elM,twelve,NP,4P,fifP,6P,7P,8O,9P,twLQ,NQ,forQ,fifQ,6Q,7Q,8y,9Q,en,evL,thir,eL,tO,ty, is ,.\n,4RmagicS,zero,";
while(x--)
if(*++p-44&&!x++)
*p>95|*p<48?putchar(*p),++i:P(*p-48);
}
main(c){
for(scanf("%d",&c);c+(i=-4);P(34),P(c=i),P(35))
P(c?
c>19?
P(c/10+18),
(c%=10)&&
putchar(45)
:0,
c
:37);
P(36);
}
Expanded and commented:
int count; /* type int is assumed in the minified version */
void print(int index){ /* the minified version assumes a return type of int, but it's ignored */
/* see explanation of this string after code */
char *word =
/* 1 - 9 */
",one,two,three,four,five,six,sM,eight,nine,"
/* 10 - 19 */
"tL,elM,twelve,NP,4P,fifP,6P,7P,8O,9P,"
/* 20 - 90, by tens */
"twLQ,NQ,forQ,fifQ,6Q,7Q,8y,9Q,"
/* lookup table */
"en,evL,thir,eL,tO,ty, is ,.\n,4RmagicS,zero,";
while(index >= 0){
if(*word == ',')
index--;
else if(index == 0) /* we found the right word */
if(*word >= '0' && *word < 'a') /* a compression marker */
print(*word - '0'/*convert to a number*/);
else{
putchar(*word); /* write the letter to the output */
++count;
}
++word;
}
}
int main(int argc, char **argv){ /* see note about this after code */
scanf("%d", &argc); /* parse user input to an integer */
while(argc != 4){
count = 0;
if(argc == 0)
print(37/*index of "zero"*/);
else{
if(argc > 19){
print(argc / 10/*high digit*/ + 20/*offset of "twenty"*/ - 2/*20 / 10*/);
argc %= 10; /* get low digit */
if(argc != 0) /* we need a hyphen before the low digit */
putchar('-');
}
print(argc/* if 0, then nothing is printed or counted */);
}
argc = count;
print(34/*" is "*/);
print(argc); /* print count as word */
print(35/*".\n"*/);
}
print(36/*"four is magic.\n"*/);
}
About the encoded string near the beginning
The names of the numbers are compressed using a very simple scheme. Frequently used substrings are replaced with one-character indices into the name array. A "lookup table" of extra name entries is added to the end for substrings not used in their entirety in the first set. Lookups are recursive: entries can refer to other entries.
For instance, the compressed name for 11 is elM. The print() function outputs the characters e and l (lower-case 'L', not number '1') verbatim, but then it finds the M, so it calls itself with the index of the 29th entry (ASCII 'M' - ASCII '0') into the lookup table. This string is evL, so it outputs e and v, then calls itself again with the index of the 28th entry in the lookup table, which is en, and is output verbatim. This is useful because en is also used in eL for een (used after eight in eighteen), which is used in tO for teen (used for every other -teen name).
This scheme results in a fairly significant compression of the number names, while requiring only a small amount of code to decompress.
The commas at the beginning and end of the string account for the simplistic way that substrings are found within this string. Adding two characters here saves more characters later.
About the abuse of main()
argv is ignored (and therefore not declared in the compressed version), argc's value is ignored, but the storage is reused to hold the current number. This just saves me from having to declare an extra variable.
About the lack of #include
Some will complain that omitting #include <stdio.h> is cheating. It is not at all. The given is a completely legal C program that will compile correctly on any C compiler I know of (albeit with warnings). Lacking protoypes for the stdio functions, the compiler will assume that they are cdecl functions returning int, and will trust that you know what arguments to pass. The return values are ignored in this program, anyway, and they are all cdecl ("C" calling convention) functions, and we do indeed know what arguments to pass.
Output
Output is as expected:
0
zero is four.
four is magic.
1
one is three.
three is five.
five is four.
four is magic.
4
four is magic.
20
twenty is six.
six is three.
three is five.
five is four.
four is magic.
21
twenty-one is nine.
nine is four.
four is magic.
* The previous version missed the mark on two parts of the spec: it didn't handle zero, and it took input on the command line instead of stdin. Handling zeros added characters, but using stdin instead of command line args, as well as a couple of other optimzations saved the same number of characters, resulting in a wash.
† The requirements have been changed to make clear that the number word should be printed on both sides of " is ". This new version meets that requirement, and implements a couple more optimizations to (more than) account for the extra size necessary.
J, 107 112 characters
'4 is magic.',~}:('.',~":#{.,' is ',":#{:)"1]2&{.\.
(]{&(#.100 4$,#:3 u:ucp'䌵䐵吶梇禈榛ꪛ멩鮪鮺墊馊誙誩墊馊ꥺ겻곋榛ꪛ멩鮪鮺'))^:a:
(Newline for readability only)
Usage and output:
'4 is magic.',~}:('.',~":#{.,' is ',":#{:)"1]2&{.\.(]{&(#.100 4$,#:3 u:ucp'䌵䐵吶梇禈榛ꪛ멩鮪鮺墊馊誙誩墊馊ꥺ겻곋榛ꪛ멩鮪鮺'))^:a:12
12 is 6.
6 is 3.
3 is 5.
5 is 4.
4 is magic.
T-SQL, 413 451 499 chars
CREATE FUNCTION d(#N int) RETURNS int AS BEGIN
Declare #l char(50), #s char(50)
Select #l='0066555766',#s='03354435543668877987'
if #N<20 return 0+substring(#s,#N+1,1) return 0+substring(#l,(#N/10)+1,1) + 0+(substring(#s,#N%10+1,1))END
GO
CREATE proc M(#x int) as BEGIN
WITH r(p,n)AS(SELECT p=#x,n=dbo.d(#x) UNION ALL SELECT p=n,n=dbo.d(n) FROM r where n<>4)Select p,'is',n,'.' from r print '4 is magic.'END
(Not that I'm seriously suggesting you'd do this... really I just wanted to write a CTE)
To use:
M 95
Returns
p n
----------- ---- -----------
95 is 10.
10 is 3.
3 is 5.
5 is 4.
4 is magic.
Java (with boilerplate), 308 290 286 282 280 characters
class A{public static void main(String[]a){int i=4,j=0;for(;;)System.out.printf("%d is %s.%n",i=i==4?new java.util.Scanner(System.in).nextInt():j,i!=4?j="43354435543668877988699;::9;;:699;::9;;:588:998::9588:998::9588:998::97::<;;:<<;699;::9;;:699;::9;;:".charAt(i)-48:"magic");}}
I'm sure Groovy would get rid of much of that.
Explanation and formatting (all comments, newlines and leading/trailing whitespace removed in count):
Reasonably straight forward, but
//boilerplate
class A{
public static void main(String[]a){
//i is current/left number, j right/next number. i=4 signals to start
//by reading input
int i=4,j=0;
for(;;)
//print in the form "<left> is <right>."
System.out.printf(
"%d is %s.%n",
i=i==4?
//<left>: if i is 4 <left> will be a new starting number
new java.util.Scanner(System.in).nextInt():
//otherwise it's the next val
j,
i!=4?
//use string to map number to its length (:;< come after 9 in ASCII)
//48 is value of '0'. store in j for next iteration
j="43354435543668877988699;::9;;:699;::9;;:588:998::9588:998::9588:998::97::<;;:<<;699;::9;;:699;::9;;:".charAt(i)-48:
//i==4 is special case for right; print "magic"
"magic");
}
}
Edit: No longer use hex, this is less keystrokes
Windows PowerShell: 152 153 184 bytes
based on the previous solution, with more influence from other solutions
$o="03354435543668877988"
for($input|sv b;($a=$b)-4){if(!($b=$o[$a])){$b=$o[$a%10]-48+"66555766"[($a-$a%10)/10-2]}$b-=48-4*!$a
"$a is $b."}'4 is magic.'
C, 158 characters
main(n,c){char*d="03354435543668877988";for(scanf("%d",&n);n-4;n=c)printf("%d is %d.\n",n,c=n?n<19?d[n]-48:d[n%10]-"_,**+++)**"[n/10]:4);puts("4 is magic.");}
(originally based on Vlad's Python code, borrowed a trick from Tom Sirgedas' C++ solution to squeeze out a few more characters)
expanded version:
main(n, c) {
char *d = "03354435543668877988";
for (scanf("%d",&n); n-4; n = c)
printf("%d is %d.\n", n, c = n ? n<19 ? d[n]-48 : d[n%10] - "_,**+++)**"[n/10] : 4);
puts("4 is magic.");
}
Python, 129 133 137 148 chars
As a warm-up, here is my first version (improves couple of chars over previous best Python).
PS. After a few redactions now it is about twenty char's shorter:
n=input()
while n-4:p=(922148248>>n/10*3&7)+(632179416>>n%10*3&7)+(737280>>n&1)+4*(n<1);print n,'is %d.'%p;n=p
print'4 is magic.'
C#: 210 Characters.
Squished:
using C=System.Console;class B{static void Main(){int
x=0,y=int.Parse(C.ReadLine());while(x!=4)C.Write((x=y)+" is {0}.\n",x==4?"magic":""+(y=x==0?4:"03354435543668877988"[x<20?x:x%10]+"0066555766"[x/10]-96));}}
Expanded:
using C=System.Console;
class B
{
static void Main()
{
int x=0,y=int.Parse(C.ReadLine());
while(x!=4)
C.Write((x=y)+" is {0}.\n",
x==4?
"magic":
""+(y= x==0?
4:
"03354435543668877988"[x<20?x:x%10]+
"0066555766"[x/10]-96)
);
}
}
Tricks this approach uses:
Create a lookup table for number name lengths based on digits that appear in the number.
Use character array lookup on a string, and char arithmetic instead of a numeric array.
Use class name aliasing to short Console. to C.
Use the conditional (ternary) operator (?:) instead of if/else.
Use the \n with Write escape code instead of WriteLine
Use the fact that C# has a defined order of evaluation to allow assignments inside the Write function call
Use the assignment expressions to eliminate extra statements, and thus extra braces
Perl: 148 characters
(Perl: 233 181 212 206 200 199 198 185 179 149 148 characters)
Moved exceptions hash into unit array. This resulted in my being able to cut a lot of characters :-)
mobrule pointed out a nasty bug. Quick fix adds 31 characters, ouch!
Refactored for zero special case, mild golfing done as well.
Direct list access for single use rather than storing to array? Hell yes!
SO MUCH REFACTORING for just ONE bloody character. This, truly, is the life of a golfer. :-(
Oops, easy whitespace fix. 198 now.
Refactored some redundant code.
Last return keyword in r is unnecessary, shaved some more off.
Massive refactoring per comments; unfortunately I could only get it to 149 because I had to fix a bug that was present in both my earlier code and the commenters' versions.
Trying bareword "magic".
Let's get this ball rolling with a modest attempt in Perl.
#u=split'','4335443554366887798866555766';$_=<>;chop;print"$_ is ".($_=$_==4?0:$_<20?$u[$_]:($u[$_/10+18]+($_%10&&$u[$_%10]))or magic).".
"while$_
Tricks:
Too many!
JavaScript 1.8 (SpiderMonkey) - 153 Chars
l='4335443554366887798866555766'.split('')
for(b=readline();(a=+b)-4;print(a,'is '+b+'.'))b=a<20?l[a]:+l[18+a/10|0]+(a%10&&+l[a%10])
print('4 is magic.')
Usage: echo 42 | js golf.js
Output:
42 is 8.
8 is 5.
5 is 4.
4 is magic.
With bonus - 364 chars
l='zero one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty thirty fourty fifty sixty seventy eighty ninety'.split(' ')
z=function(a)a<20?l[a]:l[18+a/10|0]+(a%10?' '+l[a%10]:'')
for(b=+readline();(a=b)-4;print(z(a),'is '+z(b)+'.'))b=z(a).replace(' ','').length
print('four is magic.')
Output:
ninety nine is ten.
ten is three.
three is five.
five is four.
four is magic.
Haskell, 224 270 characters
o="43354435543668877988"
x!i=read[x!!i]
n x|x<20=o!x|0<1="0066555766"!div x 10+o!mod x 10
f x=zipWith(\a b->a++" is "++b++".")l(tail l)where l=map show(takeWhile(/=4)$iterate n x)++["4","magic"]
main=readLn>>=mapM putStrLn.f
And little more readable -
ones = [4,3,3,5,4,4,3,5,5,4,3,6,6,8,8,7,7,9,8,8]
tens = [0,0,6,6,5,5,5,7,6,6]
n x = if x < 20 then ones !! x else (tens !! div x 10) + (ones !! mod x 10)
f x = zipWith (\a b -> a ++ " is " ++ b ++ ".") l (tail l)
where l = map show (takeWhile (/=4) (iterate n x)) ++ ["4", "magic"]
main = readLn >>= mapM putStrLn . f
C++ Stdio version, minified: 196 characters
#include <cstdio>
#define P;printf(
char*o="43354435543668877988";main(int p){scanf("%d",&p)P"%d",p);while(p!=4){p=p<20?o[p]-48:"0366555966"[p/10]-96+o[p%10]P" is %d.\n%d",p,p);}P" is magic.\n");}
C++ Iostreams version, minified: 195 characters
#include <iostream>
#define O;std::cout<<
char*o="43354435543668877988";main(int p){std::cin>>p;O p;while(p!=4){p=p<20?o[p]-48:"0366555966"[p/10]-96+o[p%10]O" is "<<p<<".\n"<<p;}O" is magic.\n";}
Original, un-minified: 344 characters
#include <cstdio>
int ones[] = { 4, 3, 3, 5, 4, 4, 3, 5, 5, 4, 3, 6, 6, 8, 8, 7, 7, 9, 8, 8 };
int tens[] = { 0, 3, 6, 6, 5, 5, 5, 9, 6, 6 };
int n(int n) {
return n<20 ? ones[n] : tens[n/10] + ones[n%10];
}
int main(int p) {
scanf("%d", &p);
while(p!=4) {
int q = n(p);
printf("%i is %i\n", p, q);
p = q;
}
printf("%i is magic\n", p);
}
Delphi: 329 characters
Single Line Version:
program P;{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}uses SysUtils;const S=65;A='EDDFEEDFFEDGGIIHHJII';B='DGGFFFJGG';function Z(X:Byte):Byte;begin if X<20 then Z:=Ord(A[X+1])-S else Z:=(Ord(B[X DIV 10])-S)+Z(X MOD 10)end;var X,Y:Byte;begin Write('> ');ReadLn(X);repeat Y:=Z(X);WriteLn(Format('%d is %d.',[X,Y]));X:=Y;until X=4;WriteLn('4 is magic.');end.
Formated:
program P;
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
uses
SysUtils;
const
S = 65;
A = 'EDDFEEDFFEDGGIIHHJII';
B = 'DGGFFFJGG';
function Z(X:Byte):Byte;
begin
if X<20
then Z := Ord(A[X+1])-S
else Z := (Ord(B[X DIV 10])-S) + Z(X MOD 10);
end;
var
X,Y: Byte;
begin
Write('> ');
ReadLn(X);
repeat
Y:=Z(X);
WriteLn(Format('%d is %d.' , [X,Y]));
X:=Y;
until X=4;
WriteLn('4 is magic.');
end.
Probably room for some more squeezing... :-P
C# 314 286 283 274 289 273 252 chars.
Squished:
252
Normal:
using C = System.Console;
class P
{
static void Main()
{
var x = "4335443554366877798866555766";
int m, o, v = int.Parse(C.ReadLine());
do {
C.Write("{0} is {1}.\n", o = v, v == 4 ? (object)"magic" : v = v < 20 ? x[v] - 48 : x[17 + v / 10] - 96 + ((m = v % 10) > 0 ? x[m] : 48));
} while (o != 4);
C.ReadLine();
}
}
Edit Dykam: Did quite some carefull insertions and changes:
Changed the l.ToString() into a cast to object of the string "magic".
Created a temporary variable o, so I could move the break outside the for loop, that is, resulting in a do-while.
Inlined the o assignment, aswell the v assignment, continueing in inserting the calculation of l in the function arguments altogether, removing the need for l. Also inlined the assignment of m.
Removed a space in int[] x, int[]x is legit too.
Tried to transform the array into a string transformation, but the using System.Linq was too much to make this an improvement.
Edit 2 Dykam
Changed the int array to a char array/string, added proper arithmics to correct this.
Lua, 176 Characters
o={[0]=4,3,3,5,4,4,3,5,5,4,3,6,6,8,8,7,7,9,8,8}t={3,6,6,5,5,5,7,6,6}n=0+io.read()while n~=4 do a=o[n]or o[n%10]+t[(n-n%10)/10]print(n.." is "..a..".")n=a end print"4 is magic."
or
o={[0]=4,3,3,5,4,4
,3,5,5,4,3,6,6,8,8
,7,7,9,8,8}t={3,6,
6,5,5,5,7,6,6}n=
0+io.read()while
n ~= 4 do a= o[n
]or o[n%10]+t[(n
-n%10)/10]print(
n.." is "..a.."." )n=a
end print"4 is magic."
C - without number words
180 175* 172 167 characters
All newlines are for readability and can be removed:
i;V(x){return"\3#,#6$:WOXB79B"[x/2]/(x%2?1:10)%10;}main(c){for(scanf("%d",&c);
c-4;)i=c,printf("%d is %d.\n",i,c=c?c>19?V(c/10+19)+V(c%10):V(c):4);puts(
"4 is magic.");}
Slightly unminified:
i;
V(x){return"\3#,#6$:WOXB79B"[x/2]/(x%2?1:10)%10;}
main(c){
for(scanf("%d",&c);c-4;)
i=c,
printf("%d is %d.\n",i,c=c?c>19?V(c/10+19)+V(c%10):V(c):4);
puts("4 is magic.");
}
* The previous version missed the mark on two parts of the spec: it didn't handle zero, and it took input on the command line instead of stdin. Handling zero added characters, but using stdin instead of command line args saved even more, resulting in a net savings.
perl, 123 122 characters
Just realized that there is no requirement to output to STDOUT, so output to STDERR instead and knock off another character.
#u='0335443554366887798866555766'=~/./g;$_+=<>;warn"$_ is ",$_=$_-4?$_<20?$u[$_]||4:$u[chop]+$u[$_+18]:magic,".\n"until/g/
And, a version that returns spelled out numbers:
279 278 276 280 characters
#p=(Thir,Four,Fif,Six,Seven,Eigh,Nine);#n=("",One,Two,Three,Four,Five,#p[3..6],Ten,Eleven,Twelve,map$_.teen,#p);s/u//for#m=map$_.ty,Twen,#p;$n[8].=t;sub n{$n=shift;$n?$n<20?$n[$n]:"$m[$n/10-2] $n[$n%10]":Zero}$p+=<>;warnt$m=n($p)," is ",$_=$p-4?n$p=()=$m=~/\w/g:magic,".\n"until/c/
While that meets the spec, it is not 100% well formatted. It returns an extra space after numbers ending in zero. The spec does say:
"I don't care how you separate the word tokens, though they should be separated"
That's kind of weaselly though.
A more correct version at
282 281 279 283 characters
#p=(Thir,Four,Fif,Six,Seven,Eigh,Nine);#n=("\x8",One,Two,Three,Four,Five,#p[3..6],Ten,Eleven,Twelve,map$_.teen,#p);s/u//for#m=map$_.ty,Twen,#p;$n[8].=t;sub n{$n=shift;$n?$n<20?$n[$n]:"$m[$n/10-2]-$n[$n%10]":Zero}$p+=<>;warn$m=n($p)," is ",$_=$p-4?n$p=()=$m=~/\w/g:magic,".\n"until/c/
Python:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Number of letters in each part, we don't count spaces
Decades = ( 0, 3, 6, 6, 6, 5, 5, 7, 6, 6, 0 )
Smalls = ( 0, 3, 3, 5, 4, 4, 3, 5, 5, 4 )
Teens = ( 6, 6, 8, 8, 7, 7, 9, 8, 8 )
def Count(n):
if n > 10 and n < 20: return Teens[n-11]
return Smalls[n % 10 ] + Decades [ n / 10 ]
N = input()
while N-4:
Cnt = Count(N)
print "%d is %d" % ( N, Cnt)
N = Cnt
print "4 is magic"
C++, 171 characters (#include omitted)
void main(){char x,y,*a="03354435543668877988";scanf("%d",&x);for(;x-4;x=y)y=x?x<19?a[x]-48:"_466555766"[x/10]+a[x%10]-96:4,printf("%d is %d.\n",x,y);puts("4 is magic.");}
Ruby, 164 characters
n=gets.to_i;s="03354435543668877987";if n==0;puts"0 is 4.";else;puts"#{n} is #{n=(n<20)?s[n]-48:"0066555766"[n/10]-48+s[n%10]-48}." until n==4;end;puts"4 is magic."
decoded:
n = gets.to_i
s = "03354435543668877987"
if n == 0
puts "0 is 4."
else
puts "#{n} is #{n = (n < 20) ? s[n] - 48 : "0066555766"[n / 10] - 48 + s[n % 10] - 48}." until n == 4
end
puts "4 is magic."
Lua 185 190 199
added periods, added io.read, removed ()'s on last print
n=io.read();while(n~=4)do m=('43354435543668877988699;::9;;:699;::9;;:588:998::9588:998::9588:998::97::<;;:<<;699;::9;;:699;::9;;:'):sub(n+1):byte()-48;print(n,' is ',m,'.')n=m;end print'4 is magic.'
with line breaks
n=io.read()
while (n~=4) do
m=('43354435543668877988699;::9;;:699;::9;;:588:998::9588:998::9588:998::97::<;;:<<;699;::9;;:699;::9;;:'):sub(n+1):byte()-48;
print(n,' is ',m,'.')
n=m;
end
print'4 is magic.'
PhP Code
function get_num_name($num){
switch($num){
case 1:return 'one';
case 2:return 'two';
case 3:return 'three';
case 4:return 'four';
case 5:return 'five';
case 6:return 'six';
case 7:return 'seven';
case 8:return 'eight';
case 9:return 'nine';
}
}
function num_to_words($number, $real_name, $decimal_digit, $decimal_name){
$res = '';
$real = 0;
$decimal = 0;
if($number == 0)
return 'Zero'.(($real_name == '')?'':' '.$real_name);
if($number >= 0){
$real = floor($number);
$decimal = number_format($number - $real, $decimal_digit, '.', ',');
}else{
$real = ceil($number) * (-1);
$number = abs($number);
$decimal = number_format($number - $real, $decimal_digit, '.', ',');
}
$decimal = substr($decimal, strpos($decimal, '.') +1);
$unit_name[1] = 'thousand';
$unit_name[2] = 'million';
$unit_name[3] = 'billion';
$unit_name[4] = 'trillion';
$packet = array();
$number = strrev($real);
$packet = str_split($number,3);
for($i=0;$i<count($packet);$i++){
$tmp = strrev($packet[$i]);
$unit = $unit_name[$i];
if((int)$tmp == 0)
continue;
$tmp_res = '';
if(strlen($tmp) >= 2){
$tmp_proc = substr($tmp,-2);
switch($tmp_proc){
case '10':
$tmp_res = 'ten';
break;
case '11':
$tmp_res = 'eleven';
break;
case '12':
$tmp_res = 'twelve';
break;
case '13':
$tmp_res = 'thirteen';
break;
case '15':
$tmp_res = 'fifteen';
break;
case '20':
$tmp_res = 'twenty';
break;
case '30':
$tmp_res = 'thirty';
break;
case '40':
$tmp_res = 'forty';
break;
case '50':
$tmp_res = 'fifty';
break;
case '70':
$tmp_res = 'seventy';
break;
case '80':
$tmp_res = 'eighty';
break;
default:
$tmp_begin = substr($tmp_proc,0,1);
$tmp_end = substr($tmp_proc,1,1);
if($tmp_begin == '1')
$tmp_res = get_num_name($tmp_end).'teen';
elseif($tmp_begin == '0')
$tmp_res = get_num_name($tmp_end);
elseif($tmp_end == '0')
$tmp_res = get_num_name($tmp_begin).'ty';
else{
if($tmp_begin == '2')
$tmp_res = 'twenty';
elseif($tmp_begin == '3')
$tmp_res = 'thirty';
elseif($tmp_begin == '4')
$tmp_res = 'forty';
elseif($tmp_begin == '5')
$tmp_res = 'fifty';
elseif($tmp_begin == '6')
$tmp_res = 'sixty';
elseif($tmp_begin == '7')
$tmp_res = 'seventy';
elseif($tmp_begin == '8')
$tmp_res = 'eighty';
elseif($tmp_begin == '9')
$tmp_res = 'ninety';
$tmp_res = $tmp_res.' '.get_num_name($tmp_end);
}
break;
}
if(strlen($tmp) == 3){
$tmp_begin = substr($tmp,0,1);
$space = '';
if(substr($tmp_res,0,1) != ' ' && $tmp_res != '')
$space = ' ';
if($tmp_begin != 0){
if($tmp_begin != '0'){
if($tmp_res != '')
$tmp_res = 'and'.$space.$tmp_res;
}
$tmp_res = get_num_name($tmp_begin).' hundred'.$space.$tmp_res;
}
}
}else
$tmp_res = get_num_name($tmp);
$space = '';
if(substr($res,0,1) != ' ' && $res != '')
$space = ' ';
$res = $tmp_res.' '.$unit.$space.$res;
}
$space = '';
if(substr($res,-1) != ' ' && $res != '')
$space = ' ';
if($res)
$res .= $space.$real_name.(($real > 1 && $real_name != '')?'s':'');
if($decimal > 0)
$res .= ' '.num_to_words($decimal, '', 0, '').' '.$decimal_name.(($decimal > 1 && $decimal_name != '')?'s':'');
return ucfirst($res);
}
//////////// testing ////////////////
$str2num = 12;
while($str2num!=4){
$str = num_to_words($str2num, '', 0, '');
$str2num = strlen($str)-1;
echo $str . '=' . $str2num .'<br/>';
if ($str2num == 4)
echo 'four is magic';
}
////// Results /////////
Twelve =6
Six =3
Three =5
Five =4
four is magic
Perl - 130 chars
5.12.1 (130 chars) 121 123 132 136 140
# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100 11 12 13 14
#23456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123
#u='4335443554366887798866555766'=~/./g;$_=pop;say"$_ is ",$_=$_-4?$_<20?$u[$_]:$u[$_/10+18]+(($_%=10)&&$u[$_]):magic,"."until/\D/
5.10.1 (134 chars) 125 127 136 140 144
# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100 11 12 13 14
#23456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 1234
#u='4335443554366887798866555766'=~/./g;$_=pop;print"$_ is ",$_=$_-4?$_<20?$u[$_]:$u[$_/10+18]+(($_%=10)&&$u[$_]):magic,".\n"until/\D/
Change History:
20100714:2223 - reverted change at the attention of mobrule, but ($_%10&&$u[$_%10]) → (($_%=10)&&$u[$_]), which is the same # of chars, but I did it in case someone might see a way to improve it
20100714:0041 - split//,'...' → '...'=~/./g
20100714:0025 - ($_%10&&$u[$_%10]) → $u[$_%10]
20100713:2340 - while$_ → until/\D/ + removed unnecessary parentheses
20100713:xxxx - $=<>;chop; → $_=pop; - courtesy to mobrule
Note: I was tired of improving others' answers in comments, so now I'm being greedy and can just add my changes here :) This is a split off from Platinum Azure's answer - credit in part to Hobbs, mobrule, and Platinum Azure.
Shameless Perl with Number Words (329 characters)
Adapted fairly directly from P Daddy's C code, with some tweaks to p() to make it do the same thing using Perl primitives instead of C ones, and a mostly-rewritten mainloop. See his for an explanation. Newlines are all optional.
#t=(qw(zero one two three four five six sM eight nine
tL elM twelve NP 4P fifP 6P 7P 8O 9P twLQ NQ forQ fifQ
6Q 7Q 8y 9Q en evL thir eL tO ty 4SmagicT)," is ",".\n");
sub p{local$_=$t[pop];1while s/[0-Z]/$t[-48+ord$&]/e;
print;length}$_=<>;chop;while($_-4){
$_=($_>19?(p($_/10+18),$_&&print("-"),$_%=10)[0]:0)+p$_;
p 35;p$_;p 36}p 34
Side note: it's too bad that perl print just returns true/false; if it returned a count it would save me 7 strokes.
Ruby, 141 chars:
n=gets.to_i;m="4335443554366887798866555766";loop{s=n;n=n>20?m[18+n/10]+m[n%10]-96: m[n]-48;puts"#{s} is #{n==s ? 'magic': n}.";n==s &&break}
while(true)
{
string a;
ReadLine(a)
WriteLine(4);
}
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Code Golf: Rotating Maze
Make a program that takes in a file consisting of a maze. The maze has walls given by #. The maze must include a single ball, given by a o and any number of holes given by a #. The maze file can either be entered via command line or read in as a line through standard input. Please specify which in your solution.
Your program then does the following:
1: If the ball is not directly above a wall, drop it down to the nearest wall.
2: If the ball passes through a hole during step 1, remove the ball.
3: Display the maze in the standard output (followed by a newline).
Extraneous whitespace should not be displayed.
Extraneous whitespace is defined to be whitespace outside of a rectangle
that fits snugly around the maze.
4: If there is no ball in the maze, exit.
5: Read a line from the standard input.
Given a 1, rotate the maze counterclockwise.
Given a 2, rotate the maze clockwise.
Rotations are done by 90 degrees.
It is up to you to decide if extraneous whitespace is allowed.
If the user enters other inputs, repeat this step.
6: Goto step 1.
You may assume all input mazes are closed. Note: a hole effectively acts as a wall in this regard.
You may assume all input mazes have no extraneous whitespace.
The shortest source code by character count wins.
Example written in javascript:
http://trinithis.awardspace.com/rotatingMaze/maze.html
Example mazes:
######
#o ##
######
###########
#o #
# ####### #
#### #
#########
###########################
# #
# # # #
# # # ##
# # ####o####
# # #
# #
# #########
# #
######################
Perl, 143 (128) char
172 152 146 144 143 chars,
sub L{my$o;$o.=$/while s/.$/$o.=$&,""/meg;$_=$o}$_.=<>until/
/;{L;1while s/o / o/;s/o#/ #/;L;L;L;print;if(/o/){1-($z=<>)||L;$z-2||L&L&L;redo}}
Newlines are significant.
Uses standard input and expects input to contain the maze, followed by a blank line, followed by the instructions (1 or 2), one instruction per line.
Explanation:
sub L{my$o;$o.="\n"while s/.$/$o.=$&,""/meg;$_=$o}
L is a function that uses regular expressions to rotate the multi-line expression $_ counterclockwise by 90 degrees. The regular expression was used famously by hobbs in my favorite code golf solution of all time.
$_.=<>until/\n\n/;
Slurps the input up to the first pair of consecutive newlines (that is, the maze) into $_.
L;1 while s/o / o/;s/o#/ */;
L;L;L;print
To drop the ball, we need to move the o character down one line is there is a space under it. This is kind of hard to do with a single scalar expression, so what we'll do instead is rotate the maze counterclockwise, move the ball to the "right". If a hole ever appears to the "right" of the ball, then the ball is going to fall in the hole (it's not in the spec, but we can change the # to an * to show which hole the ball fell into). Then before we print, we need to rotate the board clockwise 90 degrees (or counterclockwise 3 times) so that down is "down" again.
if(/o/) { ... }
Continue if there is still a ball in the maze. Otherwise the block will end and the program will exit.
1-($z=<>)||L;$z-2||L+L+L;redo
Read an instruction into $z. Rotate the board counterclockwise once for instruction "1" and three times for instruction "2".
If we used 3 more characters and said +s/o[#*]/ */ instead of ;s/o#/ */, then we could support multiple balls.
A simpler version of this program, where the instructions are "2" for rotating the maze clockwise and any other instruction for rotating counterclockwise, can be done in 128 chars.
sub L{my$o;$o.=$/while s/.$/$o.=$&,""/meg;$_=$o}$_.=<>until/
/;L;{1while s/o / o/+s/o#/ #/;L,L,L;print;if(/o/){2-<>&&L,L;redo}}
GolfScript - 97 chars
n/['']/~{;(#"zip-1%":|3*~{{." o"/"o "*"#o"/"# "*.#>}do}%|~.n*."o"/,(}{;\~(2*)|*~\}/\[n*]+n.+*])\;
This isn't done as well as I hoped (maybe later).
(These are my notes and not an explanation)
n/['']/~ #[M I]
{
;(# #[I c M]
"zip-1%":|3*~ #rotate
{{." o"/"o "*"#o"/"# "*.#>}do}% #drop
|~ #rotate back
.n* #"display" -> [I c M d]
."o"/,( #any ball? -> [I c M d ?]
}{ #d is collected into an array -> [I c M]
;\~(2*)|*~ #rotate
\ #stack order
}/
\[n*]+n.+*])\; #output
Rebmu: 298 Characters
I'm tinkering with with my own experiment in Code Golf language design! I haven't thrown matrix tricks into the standard bag yet, and copying GolfScript's ideas will probably help. But right now I'm working on refining the basic gimmick.
Anyway, here's my first try. The four internal spaces are required in the code as it is, but the line breaks are not necessary:
.fFS.sSC L{#o#}W|[l?fM]H|[l?m]Z|[Tre[wH]iOD?j[rvT]t]
Ca|[st[xY]a KrePC[[yBKx][ntSBhXbkY][ntSBhYsbWx][xSBwY]]ntJskPCmFkSk]
Ga|[rtYsZ[rtXfZ[TaRE[xY]iTbr]iTbr]t]B|[gA|[ieSlFcA[rnA]]]
MeFI?a[rlA]aFV[NbIbl?n[ut[++n/2 TfCnIEfLtBRchCbSPieTHlTbrCHcNsLe?sNsZ]]
gA|[TfCaEEfZfA[prT][pnT]nn]ulBbr JmoADjPC[3 1]rK4]
It may look like a cat was on my keyboard. But once you get past a little space-saving trick (literally saving spaces) called "mushing" it's not so bad. The idea is that Rebmu is not case sensitive, so alternation of capitalization runs is used to compress the symbols. Instead of doing FooBazBar => foo baz bar I apply distinct meanings. FOObazBAR => foo: baz bar (where the first token is an assignment target) vs fooBAZbar => foo baz bar (all ordinary tokens).
When the unmush is run, you get something more readable, but expanded to 488 characters:
. f fs . s sc l: {#o#} w: | [l? f m] h: | [l? m] z: | [t: re [w h] i od?
j [rv t] t] c: a| [st [x y] a k: re pc [[y bk x] [nt sb h x bk y] [nt sb
h y sb w x] [x sb w y]] nt j sk pc m f k s k] g: a| [rt y s z [rt x f z
[t: a re [x y] i t br] i t br] rn t] b: | [g a| [ie s l f c a [rn a]]]
m: e fi? a [rl a] a fv [n: b i bl? n [ut [++ n/2 t: f c n ie f l t br
ch c b sp ie th l t br ch c n s l e? s n s z]] g a| [t: f c a ee f z f
a [pr t] [pn t] nn] ul b br j: mo ad j pc [3 1] r k 4]
Rebmu can run it expanded also. There are also verbose keywords as well (first instead of fs) and you can mix and match. Here's the function definitions with some comments:
; shortcuts f and s extracting the first and second series elements
. f fs
. s sc
; character constants are like #"a", this way we can do fL for #"#" etc
L: {#o#}
; width and height of the input data
W: | [l? f m]
H: | [l? m]
; dimensions adjusted for rotation (we don't rotate the array)
Z: | [t: re [w h] i od? j [rv t] t]
; cell extractor, gives series position (like an iterator) for coordinate
C: a| [
st [x y] a
k: re pc [[y bk x] [nt sb h x bk y] [nt sb h y sb w x] [x sb w y]] nt j
sk pc m f k s k
]
; grid enumerator, pass in function to run on each cell
G: a| [rt y s z [rt x f z [t: a re [x y] i t br] i t br] t]
; ball position function
B: | [g a| [ie sc l f c a [rn a]]]
W is the width function and H is the height of the original array data. The data is never rotated...but there is a variable j which tells us how many 90 degree right turns we should apply.
A function Z gives us the adjusted size for when rotation is taken into account, and a function C takes a coordinate pair parameter and returns a series position (kind of like a pointer or iterator) into the data for that coordinate pair.
There's an array iterator G which you pass a function to and it will call that function for each cell in the grid. If the function you supply ever returns a value it will stop the iteration and the iteration function will return that value. The function B scans the maze for a ball and returns coordinates if found, or none.
Here's the main loop with some commenting:
; if the command line argument is a filename, load it, otherwise use string
m: e fi? a [rl a] a
; forever (until break, anyway...)
fv [
; save ball position in n
n: B
; if n is a block type then enter a loop
i bl? n [
; until (i.e. repeat until)
ut [
; increment second element of n (the y coordinate)
++ n/2
; t = first(C(n))
t: f C n
; if-equal(first(L), t) then break
ie f l t br
; change(C(B), space)
ch C B sp
; if-equal(third(L),t) then break
ie th L t br
; change(C(n), second(L))
ch C n s L
; terminate loop if "equals(second(n), second(z))"
e? s n s z
]
]
; iterate over array and print each line
g a| [t: f c a ee f z f a [pr t] [pn t] nn]
; unless the ball is not none, we'll be breaking the loop here...
ul b br
; rotate according to input
j: mo ad j pc [3 1] r k 4
]
There's not all that much particularly clever about this program. Which is part of my idea, which is to see what kind of compression one could get on simple, boring approaches that don't rely on any tricks. I think it demonstrates some of Rebmu's novel potential.
It will be interesting to see how a better standard library could affect the brevity of solutions!
Latest up-to-date commented source available on GitHub: rotating-maze.rebmu
Ruby 1.9.1 p243
355 353 characters
I'm pretty new to Ruby, so I'm sure this could be a lot shorter - theres probably some nuances i'm missing.
When executed, the path to the map file is the first line it reads. I tried to make it part of the execution arguments (would have saved 3 characters), but had issues :)
The short version:
def b m;m.each_index{|r|i=m[r].index(?o);return r,i if i}end;def d m;x,y=b m;z=x;
while z=z+1;c=m[z][y];return if c==?#;m[z-1][y]=" "; return 1 if c==?#;m[z][y]=?o;end;end;
def r m;m.transpose.reverse;end;m=File.readlines(gets.chomp).map{|x|x.chomp.split(//)};
while a=0;w=d m;puts m.map(&:join);break if w;a=gets.to_i until 0<a&&a<3;
m=r a==1?m:r(r(m));end
The verbose version:
(I've changed a bit in the compressed version, but you get the idea)
def display_maze m
puts m.map(&:join)
end
def ball_pos m
m.each_index{ |r|
i = m[r].index("o")
return [r,i] if i
}
end
def drop_ball m
x,y = ball_pos m
z=x
while z=z+1 do
c=m[z][y]
return if c=="#"
m[z-1][y]=" "
return 1 if c=="#"
m[z][y]="o"
end
end
def rot m
m.transpose.reverse
end
maze = File.readlines(gets.chomp).map{|x|x.chomp.split(//)}
while a=0
win = drop_ball maze
display_maze maze
break if win
a=gets.to_i until (0 < a && a < 3)
maze=rot maze
maze=rot rot maze if a==1
end
Possible improvement areas:
Reading the maze into a clean 2D array (currently 55 chars)
Finding and returning (x,y) co-ordinates of the ball (currently 61 chars)
Any suggestions to improve are welcome.
Haskell: 577 509 527 244 230 228 chars
Massive new approach: Keep the maze as a single string!
import Data.List
d('o':' ':x)=' ':(d$'o':x)
d('o':'#':x)=" *"++x
d(a:x)=a:d x
d e=e
l=unlines.reverse.transpose.lines
z%1=z;z%2=l.l$z
t=putStr.l.l.l
a z|elem 'o' z=t z>>readLn>>=a.d.l.(z%)|0<1=t z
main=getLine>>=readFile>>=a.d.l
Nods to #mobrule's Perl solution for the idea of dropping the ball sideways!
Python 2.6: ~ 284 ~ characters
There is possibly still room for improvement (although I already got it down a lot since the first revisions).
All comments or suggestions more then welcome!
Supply the map file on the command line as the first argument:
python rotating_maze.py input.txt
import sys
t=[list(r)[:-1]for r in open(sys.argv[1])]
while t:
x=['o'in e for e in t].index(1);y=t[x].index('o')
while t[x+1][y]!="#":t[x][y],t[x+1][y]=" "+"o#"[t[x+1][y]>" "];x+=1
for l in t:print''.join(l)
t=t[x][y]=='o'and map(list,(t,zip(*t[::-1]),zip(*t)[::-1])[input()])or 0
C# 3.0 - 650 638 characters
(not sure how newlines being counted)
(leading whitespace for reading, not counted)
using System.Linq;
using S=System.String;
using C=System.Console;
namespace R
{
class R
{
static void Main(S[]a)
{
S m=S.Join("\n",a);
bool u;
do
{
m=L(m);
int b=m.IndexOf('o');
int h=m.IndexOf('#',b);
b=m.IndexOf('#',b);
m=m.Replace('o',' ');
u=(b!=-1&b<h|h==-1);
if (u)
m=m.Insert(b-1,"o").Remove(b,1);
m=L(L(L(m)));
C.WriteLine(m);
if (!u) return;
do
{
int.TryParse(C.ReadLine(),out b);
u=b==1|b==2;
m=b==1?L(L(L(m))):u?L(m):m;
}while(!u);
}while(u);
}
static S L(S s)
{
return S.Join("\n",
s.Split('\n')
.SelectMany(z => z.Select((c,i)=>new{c,i}))
.GroupBy(x =>x.i,x=>x.c)
.Select(g => new S(g.Reverse().ToArray()))
.ToArray());
}
}
}
Reads from commandline, here's the test line I used:
"###########" "#o #" "# ####### #" "#### #" " #########"
Relied heavily on mobrule's Perl answer for algorithm.
My Rotation method (L) can probably be improved.
Handles wall-less case.
Locked. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions.
In Google Code Jam 2009, Round 1B, there is a problem called Decision Tree that lent itself to rather creative solutions.
Post your shortest solution; I'll update the Accepted Answer to the current shortest entry on a semi-frequent basis, assuming you didn't just create a new language just to solve this problem. :-P
Current rankings:
107 Perl
121 PostScript (binary)
132 Ruby
154 Arc
160 PostScript (ASCII85)
170 PostScript
192 Python
196 JavaScript
199 Common Lisp
212 LilyPond
273 Scheme
280 R
281 sed w/ bc
312 Haskell
314 PHP
339 m4 w/ bc
346 C
381 Fortran
462 Java
718 OCaml
759 F#
1554 sed
C++ not qualified for now
sed in 1554 chars (pure) / 281 (with bc)
Yes, seriously.
Usage: sed -r -f thisfile.sed < input.in > output.out
(works on GNU sed)
1d
/ /!{x
s/^$/Case #Y:/
:i
s/9Y/Y0/
ti
s/#Y/#0Y/
s/:/:0123456789/
s/(.)Y(.*):[0-9]*\1(.).*/\3\2Y:/
x
G
s/.*\n|Y//gp
z
:p
N
/[()]/s/ |\n//g
y/()/JK/
tp
H
d}
G
s/\n[^J]*/ %/
s/[^JK]*$//
:c
s/J1?([.-9]+)(.*)K/\2#\1/
/%#/by
:b
/J/s/T//
s/J([^JK]*)K/TC\1B/
tb
/ (.+) .*%\1C/{s/%[^C]*/%/
s/T.*B//
by}
s/%.*T/%/
:y
y/CB/JK/
tc
s/.\.0*\b//g
:r
/#.*#/{s/\w*#\w*$/C&B/
s/C(\w)(.*B)/\1C\2~/
s/"[^"]*/&0/g
:t
s/(\w)(C.*)(\w)B(.*~)/\1\2B\3\4\1\3/
T
s/~(10|2[01]|3[0-2]|4[0-3]|5[0-4]|6[0-5]|7[0-6]|8[0-7]|9.)/&Q/
s/(.)(.)Q/\2\1/
s/~0\w/`00/
s/~1\B/`0/
s/~22/`04/
s/~23/`06/
s/~24/`08/
s/~33/`09/
s/~25/`10/
s/~26|~34/`12/
s/~27/`14/
s/~28|~44/`16/
s/~29|~36/`18/
s/~35/`15/
s/~45/`20/
s/~37/`21/
s/~38|~46/`24/
s/~55/`25/
s/~39/`27/
s/~47/`28/
s/~56/`30/
s/~48/`32/
s/~57/`35/
s/~49|~66/`36/
s/~58/`40/
s/~67/`42/
s/~59/`45/
s/~68/`48/
s/~77/`49/
s/~69/`54/
s/~78/`56/
s/~79/`63/
s/~88/`64/
s/~89/`72/
s/~99/`81/
s/`(.)(.)/~\1'\2/
bt
:
s/(~.)'/\1/
s/..'/K&/
/K/bk
:v
s/=(,?.)'/\1/
s/,/1'/
t
s/B(.*)~/\1B"/
tr
s/"(\w*)0/A\1/g
/A.*A/{s/A[^A]*$/J&K/
:k
s/([^A])(J.*)([^A])K/\2K\1\3/
s/K(10|2[01]|3[0-2]|4[0-3]|5[0-4]|6[0-5]|7[0-6]|8[^9]|9.)/&Q/
s/(.)(.)Q/\2\1/
s/K0/=/
s/K11/=2/
s/K12/=3/
s/K13|K22/=4/
s/K14|K23/=5/
s/K15|K24|K33/=6/
s/K16|K25|K34/=7/
s/K(17|26|35|44)/=8/
s/K(18|27|36|45)/=9/
s/K(19|28|37|46|55)/W0/
s/K(29|38|47|56)/W1/
s/K(39|48|57|66)/W2/
s/K49|K58|K67/W3/
s/K59|K68|K77/W4/
s/K69|K78/W5/
s/K79|K88/W6/
s/K89/W7/
s/K99/W8/
s/W/=,/
/'/bv
s/\b=/K:/
tk
s/[:JK]A?//g
s/,/,0123456789GF/
s/(.),.*\1(.).*F/\2/
s/G/,0/
tk}
/A.*A/bv}
s/\w*C.*A//
tr
s/.*#/./
This solution omits the leading zero in front of the decimal point, and does not handle cases where the answer is 1.00. Luckily, the GCJ judge accepts the lack of a zero, and does not have any cases where the answer is 1.00.
To include the leading zero, change the last line to s/.*#/0./; and to handle a 1.00 case, append the line s/^$/1/.
Here's a solution that outsources the multiplication to bc:
1d
/ /!{x
s/\n.*//
s/.*/echo 0&+1|bc/e
x
g
s/.*/Case #&:/p
:p
N
/[()]/s/ |\n//g
y/()/JK/
tp
H
d}
G
s/\n[^J]*/ %/
s/[^JK]*$//
:c
s/J([.-9]+)(.*)K/\2*\1/
/%\*/s/.*%.(.*)/echo \1|bc -l/e
:b
/J/s/T//
s/J([^JK]*)K/TC\1B/
tb
/ (.+) .*%\1C/{s/%[^C]*/%/
s/T.*B//
b}
s/%.*T/%/
:
y/CB/JK/
tc
Perl in 107 characters
say("Case #$_:"),
$_=eval"''".'.<>'x<>,
s:[a-z]+:*(/ $&\\s/?:g,s/\)\s*\(/):/g,
eval"\$_=<>;say$_;"x<>for 1..<>
Newlines for legibility; none of them is necessary or counted in.
It uses features found only in the latest versions of Perl, so run with perl -M5.010 or later.
I used to be a Perl noob too, so this works almost the same as the ruby one. Original version 126 chars, optimizations by peutri.
Backlinks:
Word Aligned - Power Programming
LilyPond: 212 characters
Craziness! Utter ridiculousness!! LilyPond, with its built-in Scheme interpreter, manages to outdo Scheme by more than FIFTY BYTES! Holy acrobatic flying mooses in tights!!
x=#lambda
w=#read
#(letrec((v(x(a)(map a(iota(w)1))))(c(x(f q)(*(car q)(if(any list? q)(c
f((if(memq(cadr q)f)caddr cadddr)q))1)))))(v(x(i)(w)(set! #(w))(format
#t"Case #~a:
~{~y~}"i(v(x i(w)(c(v(x i(w)))#)))))))
Usage: lilypond thisfile.ly <input.in >output.out 2>/dev/null
Credit goes to cky for writing the Scheme solution this was based on, though this version is now substantially different. Seriously, though, the Scheme could be golfed a bit further...
PostScript: 170 (regular) / 160 (ASCII85) / 121 (binary)
My shortest (regular) PostScript solution so far, provided that you rename the input file to "r" (170 characters, including newlines); uses a GhostScript-specific procedure (=only):
1[/:{repeat}/!{exch token{\ exch known{/<>}if]pop]]3 index mul
!}if}(]){token pop}/?(r)(r)file([){?]}>>begin
1[{(Case #)2{=only}:(:)=[/|[def[{[/\<<[{[/}:>>def |]! =}:}for
Usage: cp input.in r; gs -q -dNOPROMPT -dNODISPLAY -dBATCH thisfile.ps > output.out
Here's a binary version of this in 121 bytes (backslashes and unprintable characters escaped):
1[/!{\x92>\x92\xab{\\\x92>\x92`\x92p{]\x92u}if]]3\x92X\x92l!}if}(]){\x92\xab\x92u}/r(r)\x928\x92A([){r]}>>\x92\r1[{(Case #)\x92v=only[/:\x928[\x923=[{[/\\<<[{[/}\x92\x83>>\x923:]! =}\x92\x83}\x92H
If characters outside the ASCII printable range are disallowed, PS has built-in ASCII85 encoding of binary sources. We therefore have the following 160-byte solution in all ASCII printable characters:
1[([){r]}/r(r)<~OuSUj0-P\*5*Dsn>`q:6#$5JU?'9>YBkCXV1Qkk'Ca"4#Apl(5.=75YP')1:5*?#0>C.bc#<6!&,:Se!4`>4SH!;p_OuQ[/1Herh>;'5D4Bm/:07B"95!G,c3aEmO4aiKGI?I,~>cvx exec
Ruby in 132
Improved by leonid. Newlines are essential.
def j
'1
'..gets
end
j.map{|c|s=j.map{gets}*''
puts"Case #%d:"%c,j.map{gets;eval s.gsub(/[a-z]+/,'*(/ \&\b/?').gsub /\)\s*\(/,'):'}}
Ruby in 136
def j;1..gets.to_i;end;j.map{|c|m=j.map{gets}*"";puts"Case ##{c}:";j.map{gets;p eval m.gsub(/[a-z]+/,'*(/ \0\s/?').gsub /\)\s*\(/,'):'}}
I just learned about *"" being equivalent to .join"". Also realised that map could be used in a few places
Ruby in 150
1.upto(gets.to_i){|c|m=eval("gets+"*gets.to_i+"''");puts"Case ##{c}:";1.upto(gets.to_i){gets;p eval m.gsub(/[a-z]+/,'*(/ \0\s/?').gsub /\)\s*\(/,'):'}}
I am just a noob to ruby, so there is probably still a lot of room for improvement
Python in 192
import re;S=re.sub;R=raw_input;I=input;c=0;exec r"c+=1;L=S('\) *\(',')or ',S('([a-z]+)','*(\' \\1 \'in a and',eval(('+R()'*I('Case #%s:\n'%c))[1:])));exec'a=R()+\' \';print eval(L);'*I();"*I()
Common Lisp, 199 bytes
Wrapped every 80 characters:
(defun r()(read))(dotimes(i(r))(format t"~&Case #~D:"(1+ i))(r)(set'z(r))(dotime
s(a(r))(r)(print(do((g(mapcar'read(make-list(r))))(p 1(*(pop c)p))(c z(if(find(p
op c)g)(car c)(cadr c))))((not c)p)))))
Spaced and indented:
(defun r () (read))
(dotimes (i (r))
(format t "~&Case #~D:" (1+ i))
(r)
(set 'z (r))
(dotimes (a (r))
(r)
(print
(do ((g (mapcar 'read (make-list (r))))
(p 1 (* (pop c) p))
(c z (if (find (pop c) g)
(car c)
(cadr c))))
((not c) p)))))
C - 346 bytes
Compile with gcc -w
#define N{int n=atoi(gets(A));for(;n--;)
T[999];F[99];char*t,*f,*a,A[99];float p(){float
d,m=1;for(;*t++^40;);sscanf(t,"%f %[^ (]",&d,A);if(*A^41){for(f=F;m**f;){for(;*f&&*f++^32;);for(a=A;*a&&*f==*a;f++,a++);m=*a||*f&64;}d*=!m*p()+m*p();}return
d;}main(I)N{printf("Case #%d:\n",I++);t=T;N
for(gets(t);*++t;);}N gets(F),t=T,printf("%f\n",p());}}}
Arc, 143 154 characters
Very similar to the CL one, but Arc sure has terse identifiers. Wrapped every 40 chars:
(for i 1((= r read))(prn"Case #"i":")(r)
(= z(r))(repeat(r)(r)(loop(= g(n-of(r)(r
))c z p 1)c(= p(*(pop c)p)c(if(pos(pop c
)g)c.0 cadr.c)))prn.p))
Indented:
(for i 1 ((= r read))
(prn "Case #" i ":")
(r)
(= z (r))
(repeat (r)
(r)
(loop (= g (n-of (r) (r))
c z
p 1)
c
(= p (* (pop c) p)
c (if (pos (pop c) g)
(c 0)
(cadr c))))
(prn p)))
Backlink: Word Aligned - Power Programming
JavaScript in 196 bytes
r='replace'
q=readline
for(n=0,t=q();t-n++;){for(print('Case #'+n+':'),d='',x=q();x--;d+=q());for(x=q();x--;)print(eval(d[r](/([a-z]+)/g,'*({'+q()[r](/ /g,':1,z')+':1}.z$1?')[r](/\) *\(/g,'):')))}
Usage: $ smjs thisfile.js <input.in
With contributions by Hyperlisk.
PHP in 314
<?php function q(){return trim(fgets(STDIN));}for($n=q($x=0);$x++<$n;){for($s=q($t='');$s--;$t.=q());echo"Case #$x:\n";for($z=q();$z--;){$l=explode(' ',q());$l[0]=0;printf("%f\n",eval('return'.preg_replace(array('/\(/','/(\w+),/','/(\d\)*),\((\d)/','/^./'),array(',(','*(in_array("$1",$l,1)?','$1:$2'),$t).';'));}}
FORTRAN - 381
Save as a.F95
Compile with f95 a.F95
#define _ ENDDO
#define A READ(t(k:l-1),*),a
#define Q j=1,n;READ"(A)",s
#define R READ*,n;DO
#define S k+SCAN(t(k:),'()')
CHARACTER(999)s,t,u;R i=1,n;t="";PRINT"('Case #'i0':')",i
R Q;t=TRIM(t)//s;_;R Q;d=1;k=1;DO;k=S;l=S-1
IF(t(l:l)>"(")EXIT;A,u;d=d*a;k=l;m=0
IF(INDEX(s," "//TRIM(u)//" ")>0)CYCLE;DO;IF(')'>t(k:k))m=m+2;m=m-1;k=k+1
IF(1>m)EXIT;k=S-1;_;_;A;d=d*a;PRINT*,d;_;_;END
By using the default format, each of the results starts with 2 spaces, but the google judge permits it. Thanks google judge!
EXPANDED VERSION
CHARACTER(999)s,t,u
READ*,n
DO i=1,n
t=""
PRINT"('Case #'I0':')",i
READ*,n
DO j=1,n
READ"(A)",s
t=TRIM(t)//s
ENDDO
READ*,n
DO j=1,n
READ"(A)",s
d=1
k=1
DO
k=k+SCAN(t(k:),'()')
l=k+SCAN(t(k:),'()')-1
IF(t(l:l)>"(")THEN
READ(t(k:l-1),*),a
d=d*a
PRINT*,d
EXIT
ELSE
READ(t(k:l-1),*),a,u
d=d*a
k=l
m=0
IF(INDEX(s," "//TRIM(u)//" ")>0)CYCLE
DO
IF(')'>t(k:k))m=m+2
m=m-1
k=k+1
IF(1>m)EXIT
k=k+SCAN(t(k:),'()')-1
ENDDO
ENDIF
ENDDO
ENDDO
ENDDO
END
Haskell, 312 characters
Here's another aproach to Haskell. I left the dirty work to the Prelude's lex. The wrapping around it is Text.ParserCombinators.ReadP. Importing it cost 36 characters on its own—ugh!
The parser is a Features -> SExp -> Cuteness function, which spares me most of the type declarations in quibble's/yairchu's solution.
import Text.ParserCombinators.ReadP
main=f(\t->do putStrLn$"Case #"++show t++":";s<-r g;r$print.fst.head.($id=<<s).readP_to_S.d.tail.words=<<g)
d x=do"("<-e;w<-e;c<-do{f<-e;y<-d x;n<-d x;u$if elem f x then y else n}<++u 1.0;e;u$c*read w
f x=do n<-g;mapM x[1..read n]
e=readS_to_P lex
r=f.const
g=getLine
u=return
It used to use Control.Monad's join, forM_ and replicateM, but it turns out it takes less space to redefine them approximately than to import.
I also abandoned the Prelude's readParen in favor of just calling lex before and after. In the current version, there is no need to verify the closing parenthesis: on a valid input it will always be there. On the other hand, it is vital to check the opening one: since the number is only converted after the whole subexpression has been read, a lot of backtracking would be needed to align to the correct parse.
On a theoretical machine with infinite memory and time to spare, the "("<- part might be dropped (4 characters' gain, 308 in total). Unless the call to read just aborts. On mine, the stack just overflows pretty fast.
Java in 467 bytes
This uses the javascript interpreter contained in java 6.
import java.util.*;class D{static{Scanner c=new
Scanner(System.in);int n=c.nextInt(),i=0,l;while(i++<n){l=c.nextInt();String
s="(";while(l-->=0)s+=c.nextLine();System.out.println("Case #"+i+":");l=c.nextInt();while(l-->0)try{c.next();System.out.println(new
javax.script.ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName("js").eval(s.replace(")","))").replaceAll("\\) *\\(",":(").replaceAll("[a-z]+","*(/ $0 /.test('"+c.nextLine()+" ')?")));}catch(Exception
x){}}System.exit(0);}}
Thanks Varan, Chris and pfn (indirectly) for helping me shorten it.
Please see my other (even shorter!) java answer.
m4 with echo and bc, 339 bytes
This solution is a complete and utter hack, and it gives me a headache. It contains, among other things, escaped double quotes, unescaped double quotes, unescapable backquote and single quote pairs (including a nested pair seven quotes deep), unquoted regular expressions, outsourcing decimal multiplication to bc, and the use of craZy caSE to circumvent macro expansion. But it had to be done, I guess. :p
This adds an "ultimate macroizing" solution to the previous kinds of solutions (iterated loops, recursion w/ lambda mapping, labels and branches, regexp and eval, etc.)
I think a good term for this is "macroni code" :D
(wrapped every 60 characters, for clarity)
define(T,`translit($#)')define(Q,`patsubst($#)')define(I,0)Q
(T(T(T(Q(Q(Q(Q(Q(Q(T(include(A),(),<>),>\s*>,>>),>\s*<,>;),\
([a-z]+\)\s*<,`*ifElsE<rEgExp<P;``````` \1 ''''''';0>;0;<'),
^<,`defiNe<````I';iNcr<I>>\\"Case `#'I:\\"defiNe<`A'''';'),^
[0-9]*),.+ [0-9]+.*,`dEfiNE<```P';`\& '''>A'),<>;N,`(),n'),E
,e),()),.*,`syscmd(`echo "\&"|bc -l')')
Usage: $ cp input.in A; m4 thisfile.m4 > output.out
I'm an m4 n00b, though, having learned it only an hour before writing this. So there's probably room for improvement.
C++ in 698 bytes
Compile with 'g++ -o test source.cpp -include iostream -include vector -include sstream'
#define R(x,f,t) for(int x=f;x<t;x++){
#define S(x) x.size()
#define H string
#define U while
#define I if
#define D cin>>
#define X t.substr(p,S(t))
using namespace std;
int main(){int h,l,n,a,p,Y,W;D h;for(int q=1;q<=h;q++){D l;H s;char c;D c;R(i,0,l)H L;getline(cin,L);R(j,0,S(L))I (L[j]==41||L[j]==40)s+=32;s+=L[j];I(L[j]==40)s+=32;}}D a;printf("Case #%d:\n",q);R(i,0,a)H N;D N;D n;vector<H>f;R(j,0,n)D N;f.push_back(N);}H t=s;float P=1;p=0;U(p<S(t)-1){p=0;U(t[p]!=48&&t[p]!=49)p++;t=X;stringstream T(t);float V;T>>V;H F;T>>F;P*=V;I(F[0]==41)break;Y=0;R(j,0,S(f))if(F==f[j])Y=1;}p=t.find(40)+1;t=X;p=0;I(Y==0){W=1;U (W>0){I(t[p]==40)W++;I(t[p]==41)W--;p++;}t=X;p=0;}}cout<<P<<endl;}}return 0;}
EDIT: I'm sorry; I thought it was ok for the includes (eg, C works even w/o including basic libraries), while I'm sure it would be if I decleared the defines this way.
I'm not home now, and I won't be for some time: I won't be able to modify it. Just ignore my submission.
OCaml in 718 bytes
I'm an OCaml n00b, so this is probably much longer than it needs to be.
Usage: ocaml thisfile.ml <input.in >output.out
#load"str.cma";;open List;;open String;;open Str;;let x=length and
y=Printf.printf and e=global_replace and h=float_of_string and b=regexp and
k=index and r=read_line and a=read_int and w s m c=sub s(c+1)(m-c-1);;for i=1to
a()do y"Case #%d:\n"i;let t=let n=a()in let rec g d j=if j>n then d else
g(d^(r()))(j+1)in e(b" ")""(e(b"\\b")"^"(g""1))and n=a()in let rec z j=if j>n
then()else let q=tl(split(b" ")(r()))in let rec g l j s p=let o=k s '('and c=k
s ')'in if j then let f=w s c o in if contains f '('then let m=k s '^'in let
c=index_from s(m+1)'^'in g 0(mem(w s c m)q)(w s(x s)c)(h(w s m o)*.p)else h f*.p
else if o<c then g(l+1)j(w s(x s)o)p else g(l-1)(l=1)(w s(x s)c)p in y"%f\n"(g
0(0=0)t 1.);z(j+1)in z 1done
Scheme (Guile 1.8)
Here's my version at 278 bytes (with improvements from KirarinSnow to bring it down to 273), after stripping off all the newlines (except ones in string literals, of course). It only works on Guile 1.8 (since in standard Scheme, define is a syntax, not an object, but Guile represents it as an object anyway).
(define ! define)
(!(c f p w . r)(if(null? r)(* p w)(apply c f(* p w)((if(memq(car r)f)cadr caddr)r))))
(!(d . l)(map display l))
(!(r . x)(read))
(! n(r))
(do((i 1(1+ i)))((> i n))(r)(let((t(r)))(d"Case #"i":
")(do((a(r)(1- a)))((= a 0))(r)(d(apply c(map r(iota(r)))1 t)"
"))))
Pure java in 440 bytes
A shorter java solution that doesn't use any eval trick. Can be reduced to 425 by removing System.exit(0) if stderr output is ignored.
import java.util.*;enum A{_;Scanner c,d;float p(String a){return
d.nextFloat()*(d.hasNext("\\D+")?a.contains(' '+d.next()+' ')?p(a)+0*p(a):0*p(a)+p(a):1);}{c=new
Scanner(System.in);for(int n=c.nextInt(),i=0,l;i++<n;){String
s="";for(l=c.nextInt();l-->=0;)s+=c.nextLine();System.out.println("Case #"+i+":");for(l=c.nextInt();l-->0;){c.next();d=new
Scanner(s.replaceAll("[()]"," "));System.out.println(p(c.nextLine()+' '));}}System.exit(0);}}
Haskell, 514 bytes (I suck?).
Based on quibble's solution:
import Control.Monad
import Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec
data F=N|F String(Float,F)(Float,F)
r=return
f=many1 letter>>= \i->w>>d>>= \t->d>>=r.F i t
d=char '('>>w>>many1(oneOf".0123456789")>>= \g->w>>(f<|>r N)>>= \p->char ')'>>w>>r(read g,p)
w=many$oneOf" \n"
g=getLine
l=readLn
m=replicateM
main=l>>= \n->forM_[1..n]$ \t->putStrLn("Case #"++show t++":")>>l>>=(`m`g)>>=(\(Right q)->l>>=(`m`p q)).parse d"".join
z(p,f)=(p*).y f
y N _=1
y(F n t f)x=z(if n`elem`x then t else f)x
p q=fmap(drop 2.words)g>>=print.z q
C in 489 bytes
Code wrapped at 80 chars, there are actually just 3 lines.
Save in a.c and compile with: gcc -w a.c -o a
#define S int I,N;scanf("%d\n",&N);for(I=-1;++I<N;)
#define M 1000
char B[M],Z[M],Q[M]={' '},*F[M],*V;float W[M],H;int J,C,L[M],R[M];t(){V=strtok(0
," \n()");}p(){int U=C++;F[U]=0;if(!V)t();sscanf(V,"%f",W+U);t();if(V&&*V>='a')s
trcpy(Q+1,V),V=0,F[U]=strdup(strcat(Q," ")),L[U]=p(),R[U]=p();return U;}main(){S
{printf("Case #%d:\n",I+1);*B=0;{S strcat(B,gets(Z));}V=strtok(B," \n(");C=0,p()
;{S{strcat(gets(B)," ");for(J=0,H=W[0];F[J];J=strstr(B,F[J])?L[J]:R[J],H*=W[J]);
printf("%f\n",H);};}}}
F#: 759 significant chars (Wow, I'm bad at this ;) )
Minimized version
open System.Text.RegularExpressions
type t=T of float*(string*t*t)option
let rec e=function x,T(w,Some(s,a,b))->e(x,if Set.contains s x then a else b)*w|x,T(w,_)->w
let rec h x=Regex.Matches(x, #"\(|\)|\d\.\d+|\S+")|>Seq.cast<Match>|>Seq.map (fun x -> x.Value)|> Seq.toList
let rec p=function ")"::y->p y|"("::w::x::y->match x with ")"->T(float w,None),y|n->let a,f=p y in let b,g=p f in T(float w,Some(n,a,b)),g
let solve input =
Regex.Matches(input,#"(\(((?<s>\()|[^()]|(?<-s>\)))*\)(?(s)(?!)))\s+\d+\s+((\S+\s\d(.+)?\s*)+)")
|>Seq.cast<Match>
|>Seq.map(fun m->fst(p(h(m.Groups.[1].Value))), [for a in m.Groups.[3].Value.Trim().Split([|'\n'|])->set(a.Split([|' '|]))])
|>Seq.iteri(fun i (r,c)->printfn"Case #%i"(i+1);c|>Seq.iter(fun x->printfn"%.7F"(e(x, r))))
Readable version
open System.Text.RegularExpressions
type decisionTree = T of float * (string * decisionTree * decisionTree) option
let rec eval = function
| x, T(w, Some(s, a, b)) -> eval(x, if Set.contains s x then a else b) * w
| x, T(w, _) -> w
// creates a token stream
let rec tokenize tree =
Regex.Matches(tree, #"\(|\)|\d\.\d+|\S+")
|> Seq.cast<Match>
|> Seq.map (fun x -> x.Value)
|> Seq.toList
// converts token stream into a decisionTree
let rec parse = function
| ")"::xs -> parse xs
| "("::weight::x::xs ->
match x with
| ")" -> T(float weight, None), xs
| name ->
let t1, xs' = parse xs
let t2, xs'' = parse xs'
T(float weight, Some(name, t1, t2)), xs''
// uses regex to transform input file into a Seq<decisionTree, list<set<string>>, which each item in our
// list will be tested against the decisionTree
let solve input =
Regex.Matches(input, #"(\(((?<s>\()|[^()]|(?<-s>\)))*\)(?(s)(?!)))\s+\d+\s+((\S+\s\d(.+)?\s*)+)")
|> Seq.cast<Match>
|> Seq.map (fun m -> fst(parse(tokenize(m.Groups.[1].Value))), [for a in m.Groups.[3].Value.Trim().Split([|'\n'|]) -> set(a.Split([|' '|])) ])
|> Seq.iteri (fun i (tree, testCases) ->
printfn "Case #%i" (i+1)
testCases |> Seq.iter (fun testCase -> printfn "%.7F" (eval (testCase, tree)))
)
R in 280 bytes
Note: On the standard distribution of R (as of v. 2.9.2), this program does not pass the large input and fails on just Case 28 (which is nested to 99 levels), generating a "contextstack overflow". To fix this, modify the line in src/main/gram.c that reads
#define CONTEXTSTACK_SIZE 50
and replace the 50 with something like 500. Then recompile. Et voilà!
n=0
g=gsub
eval(parse(text=g('[^
]* [0-9]+( [^
]*|
)','f=c(\\1)
cat(eval(d),"
")
',g('
\\(','
cat("Case #",n<-n+1,":
",sep="")
d=expression(',g('" "','","',g(')\\s*\\(',',',g(' *("[a-z]+")\\s*\\(','*ifelse(\\1%in%f,',g('([a-z]+)','"\\1"',paste(readLines('A'),collapse='
')))))))))
Usage (requires renaming input): cp input.in A; R -q --slave -f thisfile.R >output.out
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The challenge
The shortest code by character count, that will input a string using only alphabetical characters (upper and lower case), numbers, commas, periods and question mark, and returns a representation of the string in Morse code.
The Morse code output should consist of a dash (-, ASCII 0x2D) for a long beep (AKA 'dah') and a dot (., ASCII 0x2E) for short beep (AKA 'dit').
Each letter should be separated by a space (' ', ASCII 0x20), and each word should be separated by a forward slash (/, ASCII 0x2F).
Morse code table:
alt text http://liranuna.com/junk/morse.gif
Test cases:
Input:
Hello world
Output:
.... . .-.. .-.. --- / .-- --- .-. .-.. -..
Input:
Hello, Stackoverflow.
Output:
.... . .-.. .-.. --- --..-- / ... - .- -.-. -.- --- ...- . .-. ..-. .-.. --- .-- .-.-.-
Code count includes input/output (that is, the full program).
C (131 characters)
Yes, 131!
main(c){for(;c=c?c:(c=toupper(getch())-32)?
"•ƒŒKa`^ZRBCEIQiw#S#nx(37+$6-2&#/4)'18=,*%.:0;?5"
[c-12]-34:-3;c/=2)putch(c/2?46-c%2:0);}
I eeked out a few more characters by combining the logic from the while and for loops into a single for loop, and by moving the declaration of the c variable into the main definition as an input parameter. This latter technique I borrowed from strager's answer to another challenge.
For those trying to verify the program with GCC or with ASCII-only editors, you may need the following, slightly longer version:
main(c){for(;c=c?c:(c=toupper(getchar())-32)?c<0?1:
"\x95#\x8CKa`^ZRBCEIQiw#S#nx(37+$6-2&#/4)'18=,*%.:0;?5"
[c-12]-34:-3;c/=2)putchar(c/2?46-c%2:32);}
This version is 17 characters longer (weighing in at a comparatively huge 148), due to the following changes:
+4: getchar() and putchar() instead of the non-portable getch() and putch()
+6: escape codes for two of the characters instead of non-ASCII characters
+1: 32 instead of 0 for space character
+6: added "c<0?1:" to suppress garbage from characters less than ASCII 32 (namely, from '\n'). You'll still get garbage from any of !"#$%&'()*+[\]^_`{|}~, or anything above ASCII 126.
This should make the code completely portable. Compile with:
gcc -std=c89 -funsigned-char morse.c
The -std=c89 is optional. The -funsigned-char is necessary, though, or you will get garbage for comma and full stop.
135 characters
c;main(){while(c=toupper(getch()))for(c=c-32?
"•ƒŒKa`^ZRBCEIQiw#S#nx(37+$6-2&#/4)'18=,*%.:0;?5"
[c-44]-34:-3;c;c/=2)putch(c/2?46-c%2:0);}
In my opinion, this latest version is much more visually appealing, too. And no, it's not portable, and it's no longer protected against out-of-bounds input. It also has a pretty bad UI, taking character-by-character input and converting it to Morse Code and having no exit condition (you have to hit Ctrl+Break). But portable, robust code with a nice UI wasn't a requirement.
A brief-as-possible explanation of the code follows:
main(c){
while(c = toupper(getch())) /* well, *sort of* an exit condition */
for(c =
c - 32 ? // effectively: "if not space character"
"•ƒŒKa`^ZRBCEIQiw#S#nx(37+$6-2&#/4)'18=,*%.:0;?5"[c - 44] - 34
/* This array contains a binary representation of the Morse Code
* for all characters between comma (ASCII 44) and capital Z.
* The values are offset by 34 to make them all representable
* without escape codes (as long as chars > 127 are allowed).
* See explanation after code for encoding format.
*/
: -3; /* if input char is space, c = -3
* this is chosen because -3 % 2 = -1 (and 46 - -1 = 47)
* and -3 / 2 / 2 = 0 (with integer truncation)
*/
c; /* continue loop while c != 0 */
c /= 2) /* shift down to the next bit */
putch(c / 2 ? /* this will be 0 if we're down to our guard bit */
46 - c % 2 /* We'll end up with 45 (-), 46 (.), or 47 (/).
* It's very convenient that the three characters
* we need for this exercise are all consecutive.
*/
: 0 /* we're at the guard bit, output blank space */
);
}
Each character in the long string in the code contains the encoded Morse Code for one text character. Each bit of the encoded character represents either a dash or a dot. A one represents a dash, and a zero represents a dot. The least significant bit represents the first dash or dot in the Morse Code. A final "guard" bit determines the length of the code. That is, the highest one bit in each encoded character represents end-of-code and is not printed. Without this guard bit, characters with trailing dots couldn't be printed correctly.
For instance, the letter 'L' is ".-.." in Morse Code. To represent this in binary, we need a 0, a 1, and two more 0s, starting with the least significant bit: 0010. Tack one more 1 on for a guard bit, and we have our encoded Morse Code: 10010, or decimal 18. Add the +34 offset to get 52, which is the ASCII value of the character '4'. So the encoded character array has a '4' as the 33rd character (index 32).
This technique is similar to that used to encode characters in ACoolie's, strager's(2), Miles's, pingw33n's, Alec's, and Andrea's solutions, but is slightly simpler, requiring only one operation per bit (shifting/dividing), rather than two (shifting/dividing and decrementing).
EDIT:
Reading through the rest of the implementations, I see that Alec and Anon came up with this encoding scheme—using the guard bit—before I did. Anon's solution is particularly interesting, using Python's bin function and stripping off the "0b" prefix and the guard bit with [3:], rather than looping, anding, and shifting, as Alec and I did.
As a bonus, this version also handles hyphen (-....-), slash (-..-.), colon (---...), semicolon (-.-.-.), equals (-...-), and at sign (.--.-.). As long as 8-bit characters are allowed, these characters require no extra code bytes to support. No more characters can be supported with this version without adding length to the code (unless there's Morse Codes for greater/less than signs).
Because I find the old implementations still interesting, and the text has some caveats applicable to this version, I've left the previous content of this post below.
Okay, presumably, the user interface can suck, right? So, borrowing from strager, I've replaced gets(), which provides buffered, echoed line input, with getch(), which provides unbuffered, unechoed character input. This means that every character you type gets translated immediately into Morse Code on the screen. Maybe that's cool. It no longer works with either stdin or a command-line argument, but it's pretty damn small.
I've kept the old code below, though, for reference. Here's the new.
New code, with bounds checking, 171 characters:
W(i){i?W(--i/2),putch(46-i%2):0;}c;main(){while(c=toupper(getch())-13)
c=c-19?c>77|c<31?0:W("œ*~*hXPLJIYaeg*****u*.AC5+;79-#6=0/8?F31,2:4BDE"
[c-31]-42):putch(47),putch(0);}
Enter breaks the loop and exits the program.
New code, without bounds checking, 159 characters:
W(i){i?W(--i/2),putch(46-i%2):0;}c;main(){while(c=toupper(getch())-13)
c=c-19?W("œ*~*hXPLJIYaeg*****u*.AC5+;79-#6=0/8?F31,2:4BDE"[c-31]-42):
putch(47),putch(0);}
Below follows the old 196/177 code, with some explanation:
W(i){i?W(--i/2),putch(46-i%2):0;}main(){char*p,c,s[99];gets(s);
for(p=s;*p;)c=*p++,c=toupper(c),c=c-32?c>90|c<44?0:W(
"œ*~*hXPLJIYaeg*****u*.AC5+;79-#6=0/8?F31,2:4BDE"[c-44]-42):
putch(47),putch(0);}
This is based on Andrea's Python answer, using the same technique for generating the morse code as in that answer. But instead of storing the encodable characters one after another and finding their indexes, I stored the indexes one after another and look them up by character (similarly to my earlier answer). This prevents the long gaps near the end that caused problems for earlier implementors.
As before, I've used a character that's greater than 127. Converting it to ASCII-only adds 3 characters. The first character of the long string must be replaced with \x9C. The offset is necessary this time, otherwise a large number of characters are under 32, and must be represented with escape codes.
Also as before, processing a command-line argument instead of stdin adds 2 characters, and using a real space character between codes adds 1 character.
On the other hand, some of the other routines here don't deal with input outside the accepted range of [ ,.0-9\?A-Za-z]. If such handling were removed from this routine, then 19 characters could be removed, bringing the total down as low as 177 characters. But if this is done, and invalid input is fed to this program, it may crash and burn.
The code in this case could be:
W(i){i?W(--i/2),putch(46-i%2):0;}main(){char*p,s[99];gets(s);
for(p=s;*p;p++)*p=*p-32?W(
"œ*~*hXPLJIYaeg*****u*.AC5+;79-#6=0/8?F31,2:4BDE"
[toupper(*p)-44]-42):putch(47),putch(0);}
Using a Morse Code Font?
Console.Write(params[0]);
Perl, 170 characters (with a little help from accomplished golfer mauke). Wrapped for clarity; all newlines are removable.
$_=uc<>;y,. ,|/,;s/./$& /g;#m{A..Z,0..9,qw(| , ?)}=
".-NINNN..]IN-NII..AMN-AI---.M-ANMAA.I.-].AIAA-NANMMIOMAOUMSMSAH.B.MSOIONARZMIZ"
=~/../g;1while s![]\w|,?]!$m{$&}!;print
Explanation:
Extract the morse dictionary. Each symbol is defined in terms of two chars, which can be either literal dots or dashes, or a reference to the value of another defined char. E and T contain dummy chars to avoid desyncing the decoder; we'll remove them later.
Read and format the input. "Hello world" becomes "H E L L O / W O R L D"
The next step depends on the input and output dictionaries being distinct, so turn dots in the input to an unused char (vertical bar, |)
Replace any char in the input that occurs in the morse dictionary with its value in the dictionary, until no replacements occur.
Remove the dummy char mentioned in step 1.
Print the output.
In the final version, the dictionary is optimized for runtime efficiency:
All one-symbol characters (E and T) and two-symbol characters (A, I, M, and N) are defined directly and decode in one pass.
All three-symbol characters are defined in terms of a two-symbol character and a literal symbol, decoding in two passes.
All four-symbol characters are defined in terms of two two-symbol characters, decoding in two passes with three replacements.
The five- and six-symbol characters (numbers and punctuation) decode in three passes, with four or five replacements respectively.
Since the golfed code only replaces one character per loop (to save one character of code!) the number of loops is limited to five times the length of the input (three times the length of the input if only alphabetics are used). But by adding a g to the s/// operation, the number of loops is limited to three (two if only alphabetics are used).
Example transformation:
Hello 123
H E L L O / 1 2 3
II .] AI AI M- / AO UM SM
.... . .-.. .-.. --- / .-M- .A-- I.--
.... . .-.. .-.. --- / .---- ..--- ...--
Python list comprehension, 159-character one-liner
for c in raw_input().upper():print c<","and"/"or bin(ord("•ƒwTaQIECBRZ^`šŒ#S#n|':<.$402&9/6)(18?,*%+3-;=>"[ord(c)-44])-34)[3:].translate(" "*47+"/.-"+" "*206),
Uses the similar data packing to P Daddy's C implementation, but does not store the bits in reverse order and uses bin() to extract the data rather than arithmetic. Note also that spaces are detected using inequality; it considers every character "less than comma" to be a space.
Python for loop, 205 chars including newlines
for a in raw_input().upper():
q='_ETIANMSURWDKGOHVF_L_PJBXCYZQ__54_3___2__+____16=/_____7___8_90'.find(a);s=''
while q>0:s='-.'[q%2]+s;q=~-q/2
print['/','--..--','..--..','.-.-.-',''][' ,?.'.find(a)]+s,
I was dorking around with a compact coding for the symbols, but I don't see if getting any better than the implicit trees already in use, so I present the coding here in case some one else can use it.
Consider the string:
--..--..-.-.-..--...----.....-----.--/
which contains all the needed sequences as substrings. We could code the symbols by offset and length like this:
ET RRRIIGGGJJJJ
--..--..-.-.-..--...----.....-----.--/
CCCC DD WWW 00000
,,,,,, AALLLL BBBB 11111
--..--..-.-.-..--...----.....-----.--/
?????? KKK MMSSS 22222
FFFF PPPP 33333
--..--..-.-.-..--...----.....-----.--/
UUU XXXX 44444
NN PPPP OOO 55555
--..--..-.-.-..--...----.....-----.--/
ZZZZ 66666
77777 YYYY
--..--..-.-.-..--...----.....-----.--/
...... 88888 HHHH
99999 VVVV QQQQ
--..--..-.-.-..--...----.....-----.--/
with the space (i.e. word boundary) starting and ending on the final character (the '/'). Feel free to use it, if you see a good way.
Most of the shorter symbols have several possible codings, of course.
P Daddy found a shorter version of this trick (and I can now see at least some of the redundancy here) and did a nice c implementation. Alec did a python implementation with the first (buggy and incomplete) version. Hobbs did a pretty compact perl version that I don't understand at all.
J, 124 130 134 characters
'.- /'{~;2,~&.>(]`(<&3:)#.(a:=])"0)}.&,&#:&.></.40-~a.i.')}ggWOKIHX`dfggggggg-#B4*:68,?5</.7>E20+193ACD'{~0>.45-~a.i.toupper
J beats C! Awesome!
Usage:
'.- /'{~;2,~&.>(]`(<&3:)#.(a:=])"0)}.&,&#:&.></.40-~a.i.')}ggWOKIHX`dfggggggg-#B4*:68,?5</.7>E20+193ACD'{~0>.45-~a.i.toupper 'Hello World'
.... . .-.. .-.. --- / .-- --- .-. .-.. -..
'.- /'{~;2,~&.>(]`(<&3:)#.(a:=])"0)}.&,&#:&.></.40-~a.i.')}ggWOKIHX`dfggggggg-#B4*:68,?5</.7>E20+193ACD'{~0>.45-~a.i.toupper 'Hello, Stackoverflow.'
.... . .-.. .-.. --- .-.-.- / ... - .- -.-. -.- --- ...- . .-. ..-. .-.. --- .-- --..--
Python 3 One Liner: 172 characters
print(' '.join('/'if c==' 'else''.join('.'if x=='0'else'-'for x in bin(ord("ijÁĕÁÿïçãáàðøüþÁÁÁÁÁČÁÅ×ÚÌÂÒÎÐÄ×ÍÔÇÆÏÖÝÊÈÃÉÑËÙÛÜ"[ord(c)-44])-192)[3:])for c in input().upper()))
(Encoding the tranlation table into unicode code points. Works fine, and they display here fine in my test on my Windows Vista machine.)
Edited to pare down to 184 characters by removing some unnecessary spaces and brackets (making list comps gen exps).
Edit again: More spaces removed that I didn't even know was possible before seeing other answers here - so down to 176.
Edit again down to 172 (woo woo!) by using ' '.join instead of ''.join and doing the spaces separately. (duh!)
C# 266 chars
The 131 char C solution translated to C# yields 266 characters:
foreach(var i in Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(args[0].ToUpper())){var c=(int)i;for(c=(c-32!=0)?Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("•ƒŒKa`^ZRBCEIQiw#S#nx(37+$6-2&#/4)'18=,*%.:0;?5")[c-44]-34:-3;c!=0;c/=2)Console.Write(Encoding.ASCII.GetChars(new byte[]{(byte)((c/2!=0)?46-c%2:0)}));}
which is more readable as:
foreach (var i in Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(args[0].ToUpper()))
{
var c = (int)i;
for (c = ((c - 32) != 0) ? Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("•ƒŒKa`^ZRBCEIQiw#S#nx(37+$6-2&#/4)'18=,*%.:0;?5")[c - 44] - 34 : -3
; c != 0
; c /= 2)
Console.Write(Encoding.ASCII.GetChars(new byte[] { (byte)((c / 2 != 0) ? 46 - c % 2 : 0) }));
}
Golfscript - 106 chars - NO FUNNY CHARS :)
newline at the end of the input is not supported, so use something like this
echo -n Hello, Stackoverflow| ../golfscript.rb morse.gs
' '/{{.32|"!etianmsurwdkgohvf!l!pjbxcyzq"?)"UsL?/'#! 08<>"#".,?0123456789"?=or
2base(;>{'.-'\=}%' '}%}%'/'*
Letters are a special case and converted to lowercase and ordered in their binary positions.
Everything else is done by a translation table
Python
Incomplete solution, but maybe somebody can make a full solution out of it. Doesn't handle digits or punctuation, but weighs in at only 154 chars.
def e(l):
i='_etianmsurwdkgohvf_l_pjbxcyzq'.find(l.lower());v=''
while i>0:v='-.'[i%2]+v;i=(i-1)/2;return v or '/'
def enc(s):return ' '.join(map(e,s))
C (248 characters)
Another tree-based solution.
#define O putchar
char z[99],*t=
" ETINAMSDRGUKWOHBL~FCPJVX~YZQ~~54~3~~~2~~+~~~~16=/~~.~~7,~~8~90";c,p,i=0;
main(){gets(z);while(c=z[i++]){c-46?c-44?c:O(45):O(c);c=c>96?c-32:c;p=-1;
while(t[++p]!=c);for(;p;p/=2){O(45+p--%2);}c-32?O(32):(O(47),O(c));}}
Could be errors in source tree because wikipedia seems to have it wrong or maybe I misunderstood something.
F#, 256 chars
let rec D i=if i=16 then" "else
let x=int"U*:+F8c]uWjGbJ0-0Dnmd0BiC5?\4o`h7f>9[1E=pr_".[i]-32
if x>43 then"-"+D(x-43)else"."+D x
let M(s:string)=s.ToUpper()|>Seq.fold(fun s c->s+match c with
|' '->"/ "|','->"--..-- "|'.'->".-.-.- "|_->D(int c-48))""
For example
M("Hello, Stack.") |> printfn "%s"
yields
.... . .-.. .-.. --- --..-- / ... - .- -.-. -.- .-.-.-
I think my technique may be unique so far. The idea is:
there is an ascii range of chars that covers most of what we want (0..Z)
there are only 43 chars in this range
thus we can encode one bit (dash or dot) plus a 'next character' in a range of 86 chars
the range ascii(32-117) is all 'printable' and can serve as this 86-char range
so the string literal encodes a table along those lines
There's a little more to it, but that's the gist. Comma, period, and space are not in the range 0..Z so they're handled specially by the 'match'. Some 'unused' characters in the range 0..Z (like ';') are used in the table as suffixes of other morse translations that aren't themselves morse 'letters'.
Here's my contribution as a console application in VB.Net
Module MorseCodeConverter
Dim M() As String = {".-", "-...", "-.-.", "-..", ".", "..-.", "--.", "....", "..", ".---", "-.-", ".-..", "--", "-.", "---", ".--.", "--.-", ".-.", "...", "-", "..-", "...-", ".--", "-..-", "-.--", "--..", "-----", ".----", "..---", "...--", "....-", ".....", "-....", "--...", "---..", "----."}
Sub Main()
Dim I, O
Dim a, b
While True
I = Console.ReadLine()
O = ""
For Each a In I
b = AscW(UCase(a))
If b > 64 And b < 91 Then
O &= M(b - 65) & " "
ElseIf b > 47 And b < 58 Then
O &= M(b - 22) & " "
ElseIf b = 46 Then
O &= ".-.-.- "
ElseIf b = 44 Then
O &= "--..-- "
ElseIf b = 63 Then
O &= "..--.. "
Else
O &= "/"
End If
Next
Console.WriteLine(O)
End While
End Sub
End Module
I left he white space in to make it readable. Totals 1100 characters. It will read the input from the command line, one line at a time, and send the corresponding output back to the output stream. The compressed version is below, with only 632 characters.
Module Q
Dim M() As String={".-","-...","-.-.","-..",".","..-.","--.","....","..",".---","-.-",".-..","--","-.","---",".--.","--.-",".-.","...","-","..-","...-",".--","-..-","-.--","--..","-----",".----","..---","...--","....-",".....","-....","--...","---..","----."}
Sub Main()
Dim I,O,a,b:While 1:I=Console.ReadLine():O="":For Each a In I:b=AscW(UCase(a)):If b>64 And b<91 Then:O &=M(b-65)&" ":ElseIf b>47 And b<58 Then:O &=M(b-22)&" ":ElseIf b=46 Then:O &=".-.-.- ":ElseIf b=44 Then:O &="--..-- ":ElseIf b=63 Then:O &= "..--.. ":Else:O &="/":End IF:Next:Console.WriteLine(O):End While
End Sub
End Module
C (233 characters)
W(n,p){while(n--)putch(".-.-.--.--..--..-.....-----..../"[p++]);}main(){
char*p,c,s[99];gets(s);for(p=s;*p;){c=*p++;c=toupper(c);c=c>90?35:c-32?
"È#À#¶µ´³²±°¹¸·#####Ê##i Že‘J•aEAv„…`q!j“d‰ƒˆ"[c-44]:63;c-35?
W(c>>5,c&31):0;putch(0);}}
This takes input from stdin. Taking input from the command line adds 2 characters. Instead of:
...main(){char*p,c,s[99];gets(s);for(p=s;...
you get:
...main(int i,char**s){char*p,c;for(p=s[1];...
I'm using Windows-1252 code page for characters above 127, and I'm not sure how they'll turn up in other people's browsers. I notice that, in my browser at least (Google Chrome), two of the characters (between "#" and "i") aren't showing up. If you copy out of the browser and paste into a text editor, though, they do show up, albeit as little boxes.
It can be converted to ASCII-only, but this adds 24 characters, increasing the character count to 257. To do this, I first offset each character in the string by -64, minimizing the number of characters that are greater than 127. Then I substitute \xXX character escapes where necessary. It changes this:
...c>90?35:c-32?"È#À#¶µ´³²±°¹¸·#####Ê##i Že‘J•aEAv„…`q!j“d‰ƒˆ"[c-44]:63;
c-35?W(...
to this:
...c>90?99:c-32?"\x88#\x80#vutsrqpyxw#####\x8A#\0PA)\xE0N%Q\nU!O\5\1\66DE 1
\xE1*S$ICH"[c-44]+64:63;c-99?W(...
Here's a more nicely formatted and commented version of the code:
/* writes `n` characters from internal string to stdout, starting with
* index `p` */
W(n,p){
while(n--)
/* warning for using putch without declaring it */
putch(".-.-.--.--..--..-.....-----..../"[p++]);
/* dmckee noticed (http://tinyurl.com/n4eart) the overlap of the
* various morse codes and created a 37-character-length string that
* contained the morse code for every required character (except for
* space). You just have to know the start index and length of each
* one. With the same idea, I came up with this 32-character-length
* string. This not only saves 5 characters here, but means that I
* can encode the start indexes with only 5 bits below.
*
* The start and length of each character are as follows:
*
* A: 0,2 K: 1,3 U: 10,3 4: 18,5
* B: 16,4 L: 15,4 V: 19,4 5: 17,5
* C: 1,4 M: 5,2 W: 4,3 6: 16,5
* D: 9,3 N: 1,2 X: 9,4 7: 25,5
* E: 0,1 O: 22,3 Y: 3,4 8: 24,5
* F: 14,4 P: 4,4 Z: 8,4 9: 23,5
* G: 5,3 Q: 5,4 0: 22,5 .: 0,6
* H: 17,4 R: 0,3 1: 21,5 ,: 8,6
* I: 20,2 S: 17,3 2: 20,5 ?: 10,6
* J: 21,4 T: 1,1 3: 19,5
*/
}
main(){ /* yuck, but it compiles and runs */
char *p, c, s[99];
/* p is a pointer within the input string */
/* c saves from having to do `*p` all the time */
/* s is the buffer for the input string */
gets(s); /* warning for use without declaring */
for(p=s; *p;){ /* begin with start of input, go till null character */
c = *p++; /* grab *p into c, increment p.
* incrementing p here instead of in the for loop saves
* one character */
c=toupper(c); /* warning for use without declaring */
c = c > 90 ? 35 : c - 32 ?
"È#À#¶µ´³²±°¹¸·#####Ê##i Že‘J•aEAv„…`q!j“d‰ƒˆ"[c - 44] : 63;
/**** OR, for the ASCII version ****/
c = c > 90 ? 99 : c - 32 ?
"\x88#\x80#vutsrqpyxw#####\x8A#\0PA)\xE0N%Q\nU!O\5\1\66DE 1\xE1"
"*S$ICH"[c - 44] + 64 : 63;
/* Here's where it gets hairy.
*
* What I've done is encode the (start,length) values listed in the
* comment in the W function into one byte per character. The start
* index is encoded in the low 5 bits, and the length is encoded in
* the high 3 bits, so encoded_char = (char)(length << 5 | position).
* For the longer, ASCII-only version, 64 is subtracted from the
* encoded byte to reduce the necessity of costly \xXX representations.
*
* The character array includes encoded bytes covering the entire range
* of characters covered by the challenge, except for the space
* character, which is checked for separately. The covered range
* starts with comma, and ends with capital Z (the call to `toupper`
* above handles lowercase letters). Any characters not supported are
* represented by the "#" character, which is otherwise unused and is
* explicitly checked for later. Additionally, an explicit check is
* done here for any character above 'Z', which is changed to the
* equivalent of a "#" character.
*
* The encoded byte is retrieved from this array using the value of
* the current character minus 44 (since the first supported character
* is ASCII 44 and index 0 in the array). Finally, for the ASCII-only
* version, the offset of 64 is added back in.
*/
c - 35 ? W(c >> 5, c & 31) : 0;
/**** OR, for the ASCII version ****/
c - 99 ? W(c >> 5, c & 31) : 0;
/* Here's that explicit check for the "#" character, which, as
* mentioned above, is for characters which will be ignored, because
* they aren't supported. If c is 35 (or 99 for the ASCII version),
* then the expression before the ? evaluates to 0, or false, so the
* expression after the : is evaluated. Otherwise, the expression
* before the ? is non-zero, thus true, so the expression before
* the : is evaluated.
*
* This is equivalent to:
*
* if(c != 35) // or 99, for the ASCII version
* W(c >> 5, c & 31);
*
* but is shorter by 2 characters.
*/
putch(0);
/* This will output to the screen a blank space. Technically, it's not
* the same as a space character, but it looks like one, so I think I
* can get away with it. If a real space character is desired, this
* must be changed to `putch(32);`, which adds one character to the
* overall length.
} /* end for loop, continue with the rest of the input string */
} /* end main */
This beats everything here except for a couple of the Python implementations. I keep thinking that it can't get any shorter, but then I find some way to shave off a few more characters. If anybody can find any more room for improvement, let me know.
EDIT:
I noticed that, although this routine rejects any invalid characters above ASCII 44 (outputting just a blank space for each one), it doesn't check for invalid characters below this value. To check for these adds 5 characters to the overall length, changing this:
...c>90?35:c-32?"...
to this:
...c-32?c>90|c<44?35:"...
REBOL (118 characters)
A roughly 10 year-old implementation
foreach c ask""[l: index? find" etinamsdrgukwohblzfcpövxäqüyj"c while[l >= 2][prin pick"-."odd? l l: l / 2]prin" "]
Quoted from: http://www.rebol.com/oneliners.html
(no digits though and words are just separated by double spaces :/ ...)
Python (210 characters)
This is a complete solution based on Alec's one
def e(l):
i=(' etianmsurwdkgohvf_l_pjbxcyzq__54_3___2%7s16%7s7___8_90%12s?%8s.%29s,'%tuple('_'*5)).find(l.lower());v=''
while i>0:v='-.'[i%2]+v;i=(i-1)/2
return v or '/'
def enc(s):return ' '.join(map(e,s))
C, 338 chars
338 with indentation and all removable linebreaks removed:
#define O putchar
#define W while
char*l="x#####ppmmmmm##FBdYcbcbSd[Kcd`\31(\b1g_<qCN:_'|\25D$W[QH0";
int c,b,o;
main(){
W(1){
W(c<32)
c=getchar()&127;
W(c>96)
c^=32;
c-=32;
o=l[c/2]-64;
b=203+(c&1?o>>3:0);
o=c&1?o&7:o>>3;
W(o>6)
O(47),o=0;
c/=2;
W(c--)
b+=(l[c]-64&7)+(l[c]-64>>3);
b=(((l[b/7]<<7)+l[b/7+1])<<(b%7))>>14-o;
W(o--)
O(b&(1<<o)?46:45);
O(32);
}
}
This isn't based on the tree approach other people have been taking. Instead, l first encodes the lengths of all bytes between 32 and 95 inclusive, two bytes to a character. As an example, D is -.. for a length of 3 and E is . for a length of 1. This is encoded as 011 and 001, giving 011001. To make more characters encodable and avoid escapes, 64 is then added to the total, giving 1011001 - 89, ASCII Y. Non-morse characters are assigned a length of 0. The second half of l (starting with \031) are the bits of the morse code itself, with a dot being 1 and a dash 0. To avoid going into high ASCII, this data is encoded 7 bits/byte.
The code first sanitises c, then works out the morse length of c (in o), then adds up the lengths of all the previous characters to produce b, the bit index into the data.
Finally, it loops through the bits, printing dots and dashes.
The length '7' is used as a special flag for printing a / when encountering a space.
There are probably some small gains to be had from removing brackets, but I'm way off from some of the better results and I'm hungry, so...
C# Using Linq (133 chars)
static void Main()
{
Console.WriteLine(String.Join(" ", (from c in Console.ReadLine().ToUpper().ToCharArray()
select m[c]).ToArray()));
}
OK, so I cheated. You also need to define a dictionary as follows (didn't bother counting the chars, since this blows me out of the game):
static Dictionary<char, string> m = new Dictionary<char, string>() {
{'A', ".-"},
{'B', "-.."},
{'C', "-.-."},
{'D', "-.."},
{'E', "."},
{'F', "..-."},
{'G', "--."},
{'H', "...."},
{'I', ".."},
{'J', ".---"},
{'K', "-.-"},
{'L', ".-.."},
{'M', "--"},
{'N', "-."},
{'O', "---"},
{'P', ".--."},
{'Q', "--.-"},
{'R', ".-."},
{'S', "..."},
{'T', "-"},
{'U', "..-"},
{'V', "...-"},
{'W', ".--"},
{'X', "-..-"},
{'Y', "-.--"},
{'Z', "--.."},
{'0', "-----"},
{'1', ".----"},
{'2', "..---"},
{'3', "...--"},
{'4', "....-"},
{'5', "....."},
{'6', "-...."},
{'7', "--..."},
{'8', "---.."},
{'9', "----."},
{' ', "/"},
{'.', ".-.-.-"},
{',', "--..--"},
{'?', "..--.."},
};
Still, can someone provide a more concise C# implementation which is also as easy to understand and maintain as this?
Perl, 206 characters, using dmckee's idea
This is longer than the first one I submitted, but I still think it's interesting. And/or awful. I'm not sure yet. This makes use of dmckee's coding idea, plus a couple other good ideas that I saw around. Initially I thought that the "length/offset in a fixed string" thing couldn't come out to less data than the scheme in my other solution, which uses a fixed two bytes per char (and all printable bytes, at that). I did in fact manage to get the data down to considerably less (one byte per char, plus four bytes to store the 26-bit pattern we're indexing into) but the code to get it out again is longer, despite my best efforts to golf it. (Less complex, IMO, but longer anyway).
Anyway, 206 characters; newlines are removable except the first.
#!perl -lp
($a,#b)=unpack"b32C*",
"\264\202\317\0\31SF1\2I.T\33N/G\27\308XE0=\x002V7HMRfermlkjihgx\207\205";
$a=~y/01/-./;#m{A..Z,0..9,qw(. , ?)}=map{substr$a,$_%23,1+$_/23}#b;
$_=join' ',map$m{uc$_}||"/",/./g
Explanation:
There are two parts to the data. The first four bytes ("\264\202\317\0") represent 32 bits of morse code ("--.-..-.-.-----.....--..--------") although only the first 26 bits are used. This is the "reference string".
The remainder of the data string stores the starting position and length of substrings of the reference string that represent each character -- one byte per character, in the order (A, B, ... Z, 0, 1, ... 9, ".", ",", "?"). The values are coded as 23 * (length - 1) + pos, and the decoder reverses that. The last starting pos is of course 22.
So the unpack does half the work of extracting the data and the third line (as viewed here) does the rest, now we have a hash with $m{'a'} = '.-' et cetera, so all there is left is to match characters of the input, look them up in the hash, and format the output, which the last line does... with some help from the shebang, which tells perl to remove the newline on input, put lines of input in $_, and when the code completes running, write $_ back to output with newlines added again.
Python 2; 171 characters
Basically the same as Andrea's solution, but as a complete program, and using stupid tricks to make it shorter.
for c in raw_input().lower():print"".join(".-"[int(d)]for d in bin(
(' etianmsurwdkgohvf_l_pjbxcyzq__54_3___2%7s16%7s7___8_90%12s?%8s.%29s,'
%(('',)*5)).find(c))[3:])or'/',
(the added newlines can all be removed)
Or, if you prefer not to use the bin() function in 2.6, we can get do it in 176:
for c in raw_input():C=lambda q:q>0and C(~-q/2)+'-.'[q%2]or'';print C(
(' etianmsurwdkgohvf_l_pjbxcyzq__54_3___2%7s16%7s7___8_90%12s?%8s.%29s,'%
(('',)*5)).find(c.lower()))or'/',
(again, the added newlines can all be removed)
C89 (293 characters)
Based off some of the other answers.
EDIT: Shrunk the tree (yay).
#define P putchar
char t['~']="~ETIANMSURWDKGOHVF~L~PJBXCYZQ~~54~3",o,q[9],Q=10;main(c){for(;Q;)t[
"&./7;=>KTr"[--Q]]="2167890?.,"[Q];while((c=getchar())>=0){c-=c<'{'&c>96?32:0;c-
10?c-32?0:P(47):P(10);for(o=1;o<'~';++o)if(t[o]==c){for(;o;o/=2)q[Q++]=45+(o--&1
);for(;Q;P(q[--Q]));break;}P(32);}}
Here's another approach, based on dmckee's work, demonstrating just how readable Python is:
Python
244 characters
def h(l):p=2*ord(l.upper())-88;a,n=map(ord,"AF__GF__]E\\E[EZEYEXEWEVEUETE__________CF__IBPDJDPBGAHDPC[DNBSDJCKDOBJBTCND`DKCQCHAHCZDSCLD??OD"[p:p+2]);return "--..--..-.-.-..--...----.....-----.-"[a-64:a+n-128]
def e(s):return ' '.join(map(h,s))
Limitations:
dmckee's string missed the 'Y' character, and I was too lazy to add it. I think you'd just have to change the "??" part, and add a "-" at the end of the second string literal
it doesn't put '/' between words; again, lazy
Since the rules called for fewest characters, not fewest bytes, you could make at least one of my lookup tables smaller (by half) if you were willing to go outside the printable ASCII characters.
EDIT: If I use naïvely-chosen Unicode chars but just keep them in escaped ASCII in the source file, it still gets a tad shorter because the decoder is simpler:
Python
240 characters
def h(l):a,n=divmod(ord(u'\x06_7_\xd0\xc9\xc2\xbb\xb4\xad\xa6\x9f\x98\x91_____\x14_AtJr2<s\xc1d\x89IQdH\x8ff\xe4Pz9;\xba\x88X_f'[ord(l.upper())-44]),7);return "--..--..-.-.-..--...----.....-----.-"[a:a+n]
def e(s):return ' '.join(map(h,s))
I think it also makes the intent of the program much clearer.
If you saved this as UTF-8, I believe the program would be down to 185 characters, making it the shortest complete Python solution, and second only to Perl. :-)
Here's a third, completely different way of encoding morse code:
Python
232 characters
def d(c):
o='';b=ord("Y_j_?><80 !#'/_____f_\x06\x11\x15\x05\x02\x15\t\x1c\x06\x1e\r\x12\x07\x05\x0f\x16\x1b\n\x08\x03\r\x18\x0e\x19\x01\x13"[ord(c.upper())-44])
while b!=1:o+='.-'[b&1];b/=2
return o
e=lambda s:' '.join(map(d,s))
If you can figure out a way to map this onto some set of printable characters, you could save quite a few characters. This is probably my most direct solution, though I don't know if it's the most readable.
OK, now I've wasted way too much time on this.
Haskell
type MorseCode = String
program :: String
program = "__5__4H___3VS__F___2 UI__L__+_ R__P___1JWAE"
++ "__6__=B__/_XD__C__YKN__7_Z__QG__8_ __9__0 OMT "
decode :: MorseCode -> String
decode = interpret program
where
interpret = head . foldl exec []
exec xs '_' = undefined : xs
exec (x:y:xs) c = branch : xs
where
branch (' ':ds) = c : decode ds
branch ('-':ds) = x ds
branch ('.':ds) = y ds
branch [] = [c]
For example, decode "-- --- .-. ... . -.-. --- -.. ." returns "MORSE CODE".
This program is from taken from the excellent article Fun with Morse Code.
PHP
I modified the previous PHP entry to be slightly more efficient. :)
$a=array(32=>"/",44=>"--..--",1,".-.-.-",48=>"-----",".----","..---","...--","....-",".....","-....","--...","---..","----.",63=>"..--..",1,".-","-...","-.-.","-..",".","..-.","--.","....","..",".---","-.-",".-..","--","-.","---",".--.","--.-",".-.","...","-","..-","...-",".--","-..-","-.--","--..");
foreach(str_split(strtoupper("hello world?"))as$k=>$v){echo $a[ord($v)]." ";}
Komodo says 380 characters on 2 lines - the extra line is just for readability. ;D
The interspersed 1s in the array is just to save 2 bytes by filling that array position with data instead of manually jumping to the array position after that.
Consider the first vs. the second. The difference is clearly visible. :)
array(20=>"data",22=>"more data";
array(20=>"data",1,"more data";
The end result, however, is exactly as long as you use the array positions rather than loop through the contents, which we don't do on this golf course.
End result: 578 characters, down to 380 (198 characters, or ~34.26% savings).
Bash, a script I wrote a while ago (time-stamp says last year) weighing in at a hefty 1661 characters. Just for fun really :)
#!/bin/sh
txt=''
res=''
if [ "$1" == '' ]; then
read -se txt
else
txt="$1"
fi;
len=$(echo "$txt" | wc -c)
k=1
while [ "$k" -lt "$len" ]; do
case "$(expr substr "$txt" $k 1 | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')" in
'e') res="$res"'.' ;;
't') res="$res"'-' ;;
'i') res="$res"'..' ;;
'a') res="$res"'.-' ;;
'n') res="$res"'-.' ;;
'm') res="$res"'--' ;;
's') res="$res"'...' ;;
'u') res="$res"'..-' ;;
'r') res="$res"'.-.' ;;
'w') res="$res"'.--' ;;
'd') res="$res"'-..' ;;
'k') res="$res"'-.-' ;;
'g') res="$res"'--.' ;;
'o') res="$res"'---' ;;
'h') res="$res"'....' ;;
'v') res="$res"'...-' ;;
'f') res="$res"'..-.' ;;
'l') res="$res"'.-..' ;;
'p') res="$res"'.--.' ;;
'j') res="$res"'.---' ;;
'b') res="$res"'-...' ;;
'x') res="$res"'-..-' ;;
'c') res="$res"'-.-.' ;;
'y') res="$res"'-.--' ;;
'z') res="$res"'--..' ;;
'q') res="$res"'--.-' ;;
'5') res="$res"'.....' ;;
'4') res="$res"'....-' ;;
'3') res="$res"'...--' ;;
'2') res="$res"'..---' ;;
'1') res="$res"'.----' ;;
'6') res="$res"'-....' ;;
'7') res="$res"'--...' ;;
'8') res="$res"'---..' ;;
'9') res="$res"'----.' ;;
'0') res="$res"'-----' ;;
esac;
[ ! "$(expr substr "$txt" $k 1)" == " " ] && [ ! "$(expr substr "$txt" $(($k+1)) 1)" == ' ' ] && res="$res"' '
k=$(($k+1))
done;
echo "$res"
C89 (388 characters)
This is incomplete as it doesn't handle comma, fullstop, and query yet.
#define P putchar
char q[10],Q,tree[]=
"EISH54V 3UF 2ARL + WP J 1TNDB6=X/ KC Y MGZ7 Q O 8 90";s2;e(x){q[Q++]
=x;}p(){for(;Q--;putchar(q[Q]));Q=0;}T(int x,char*t,int s){s2=s/2;return s?*t-x
?t[s2]-x?T(x,++t+s2,--s/2)?e(45):T(x,t,--s/2)?e(46):0:e(45):e(46):0;}main(c){
while((c=getchar())>=0){c-=c<123&&c>96?32:0;if(c==10)P(10);if(c==32)P(47);else
T(c,tree,sizeof(tree)),p();P(' ');}}
Wrapped for readability. Only two of the linebreaks are required (one for the #define, one after else, which could be a space). I've added a few non-standard characters but didn't add non-7-bit ones.
C, 533 characters
I took advice from some comments and switched to stdin. Killed another 70 characters roughly.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
char *u[36] = {".-","-...","-.-.","-..",".","..-.","--.","....","..",".---","-.-",".-..","--","-.","---",".--.","--.-",".-.","...","-","..-","...-",".--","-..-","-.--","--..","-----",".----","..---","...--","....-",".....","-....","--...","---..","----."};
main(){
char*v;int x;char o;
do{
o = toupper(getc(stdin));v=0;if(o>=65&&o<=90)v=u[o-'A'];if(o>=48&&o<=57)v=u[o-'0'+26];if(o==46)v=".-.-.-";if(o==44)v="--..--";if(o==63)v="..--..";if(o==32)v="/";if(v)printf("%s ", v);} while (o != EOF);
}
C (381 characters)
char*p[36]={".-","-...","-.-.","-..",".","..-.","--.","....","..",".---","-.-",".-..","--","-.","---",".--.","--.-",".-.","...","-","..-","...-",".--","-..-","-.--","--..","-----",".----","..---","...--","....-",".....","-....","--...","---..","----."};
main(){int c;while((c=tolower(getchar()))!=10)printf("%s ",c==46?".-.-.-":c==44?"--..--":c==63?"..--..":c==32?"/":*(p+(c-97)));}
C, 448 bytes using cmdline arguments:
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C, 416 bytes using stdin:
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I'm attempting to write a function in assembly that will detect if a longer binary number contains a smaller binary pattern.
Example:
Does 100111 contain 1001?
When I read this problem I figured that I would do a bitwise-AND with the large number and its smaller pattern while shifting right (logical) each time in a loop.
So, in my head I thought it would do:
100111 AND 1001 = 0
Shift-right 1
010011 AND 1001 = 0
Shift-right 1
001001 AND 1001 = 1 // Pattern FOUND!
and repeat this until either the number was shifted until it was zero or the AND returned 1.
However, I think I must have something confused because this is returning 1 for most things I put in, on the first run of the loop. Am I confused on my usage of AND?
The problem is that "partial matches" also return a non-zero value for your AND check:
100111 AND 001001 = 000001
So this tests if any of the bits match, but you want to make sure all bits are the same. The result of the AND needs to be equal to the pattern you are searching:
x = 100111
if (x AND 1001 == 1001)
print "found"
Bitwise AND does not work the way you expect (judging from the samples and ignoring the notation which seems to suggest you are using bitwise AND as the logical AND of bits). AND only takes the bits that are set to 1 "into account". E.g 1111 AND 1001 == 1001.
You need to use XOR and compare against 0 for match (remember the mask the bits you are not comparing from the result). In your example a match is found when (N ^ 1001) & 1111 == 0000
In order to make sure that both the 0 and 1 bits match your search pattern, you need to do something like this:
if ((InputPattern AND SearchMask) == SearchPattern)
{
// then match
}
The SearchMask should be all 1 bits, of a length equal to your SearchPattern. For example, you could have SearchMask == 1111, SearchPattern == 1001.
You should AND and then test against the search pattern:
if ((TestPattern & SearchPattern) == SearchPattern)
{
// then match
}
(where & represents bitwise AND)