[Kc] Perl 'Expert' Quiz-of-the-Week #22
Garrett Goebel
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Thu Aug 26 07:41:58 CDT 2004
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Write a program, 'wordladder', which gets two arguments, which are words of
the same length, and which constructs and prints a "word ladder" from the
first word to the second word.
A word ladder from word AAA to word BBB is a sequence of dictionary words
such that:
1. the first word in the sequence is word AAA 2. each word in the sequence
after the first differs from the previous
word in exactly one letter position
3. the last word in the sequence is word BBB
For example, given the two words "love" and "hate", the program might print
the word ladder:
love
hove
have
hate
Or it might print:
love
lave
have
hate
It might also print a longer word ladder, such as
love
lore
lobe
robe
role
rose
lose
lost
most
mosh
moth
math
hath
hate
If the program is unable to find a word ladder, it should print an
appropriate error message to the standard error, and exit with a failure
status.
The program should also accept an optional third argument, which, if
specified, is the name of a dictionary file which contains the permissible
words. If the third argument is omitted, the program should use a default
dictionary.
Sample word lists are available from
http://perl.plover.com/qotw/words/
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