[Neworleans-pm] Fwd: Perl Quiz-of-the-Week #16

[Brett D. Estrade]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:24:12 -0400, "Jon Bjornstad" <jon at icogitate.com>
said:
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> 
> For statewide elections, the state of California uses a "random
> alphabetic" sort to order the candidates' names on the ballot.  This
> link describes that special sort:
> 
>         http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_ra.htm
> 
> (mirrored at http://perl.plover.com/qotw/misc/r018/elections_ra.htm )
> 
> The idea is this: a random order is selected for the twenty-six
> letters of the alphabet, and then the names on the ballot are sorted
> according to this random order, instead of according to the usual
> order.  
> 
> This is the order in which the names appear on the ballot in Assembly
> District 1.  In Assembly District 2, the order is the same, except
> that the first name on the list has been moved to the end of the list.
> In Assembly District 3, the first name on the list is moved to the end
> of the list, and so on.
> 
> You will write a program to generate ballots.  The program will be
> invoked like this:
> 
>         elect.pl [-r] [permutation] [district-number] [namefile]
> 
> (Items in [square brackets] are optional.)
> 
> The 'permuation' argument will default to 'randlet.txt'.  If the file
> exists, it should contain a single line of text with a random
> permutation of the 26 letters of the alphabet. If this file does not
> exist, the program should generate one at random.  The -r option will
> force the file to be regenerated even if it exists already.
> 
> The 'district-number' is the number of the Assembly District for which
> the ballot will be generated.  If omitted, the program should generate
> the ballot for Assembly District 1.
> 
> The 'namefile' is a file that contains the names of the candidates.
> The names come one per line with first name then last name:
> 
>         Jill Harmon
>         Gus Tribble
>         Walter Reston
>         Norma Kretschmer
>         Fiorella Squamuglia
>         Marv Smith
>         Bill Smith
>         Ed Squid
>         John Macdonald
>         Angus MacDonald
> 
> If the namefile is omitted, the program should read the names from the
> standard input.
> 
> The program should print out the candidates' names, one per line, in
> the order specified by California state law, sorted according to the
> random permutation of the alphabet, with names rearranged as
> appropriate for the specified Assembly District.
> 
> For example, if the file 'permutation' contains 
> 
>         QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM
> 
> and the 'namefile' contains the names listed above, then the output
> for Assembly District 1 should be:
> 
>         Walter Reston
>         Gus Tribble
>         Ed Squid
>         Fiorella Squamuglia
>         Vern Smith
>         Bill Smith
>         Jill Harmon
>         Norma Kretschmer
>         Angus MacDonald
>         John Macdonald
> 
> For Assembly District 4, it should be:
> 
>         Fiorella Squamuglia
>         Vern Smith
>         Bill Smith
>         Jill Harmon
>         Norma Kretschmer
>         Angus MacDonald
>         John Macdonald
>         Walter Reston
>         Gus Tribble
>         Ed Squid
> 
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