SPUG: Re: Anagram finder in perl

Aaron W. West tallpeak at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 30 14:18:49 CST 2004


Ha!

Oops!

So much for not releasing the source of the C program.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Aaron W. West
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Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 12:17 PM
Subject: Anagram finder in perl


Scrabble/Literati players:

This is a fun tool to find 7 & 8 letter words. It can find smaller ones, but 
you need to enter the letters. I wrote a more powerful one in C, but don't 
feel like releasing the source.

Note that this implementation is slow for more than about two blanks, due to 
trying every combination for those blanks, in the line below:

        for my $wild ( 'a' x $wildcount .. 'z' x $wildcount ) {

Just imagine 'aaaa' to 'zzzz' ... I think I pressed control-C the time I 
tried four blanks. 
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