Odd words
Given a list of words (using the words from the dictionary: unixdict.txt).
Take odd indices letters from the word, and if it's in the list, then display the odd word on this page.
The length of the odd word should be > 4.
- Metrics
- Counting
- Word frequency
- Letter frequency
- Jewels and stones
- I before E except after C
- Bioinformatics/base count
- Count occurrences of a substring
- Count how many vowels and consonants occur in a string
- Remove/replace
- XXXX redacted
- Conjugate a Latin verb
- Remove vowels from a string
- String interpolation (included)
- Strip block comments
- Strip comments from a string
- Strip a set of characters from a string
- Strip whitespace from a string -- top and tail
- Strip control codes and extended characters from a string
- Anagrams/Derangements/shuffling
- Word wheel
- ABC problem
- Sattolo cycle
- Knuth shuffle
- Ordered words
- Superpermutation minimisation
- Textonyms (using a phone text pad)
- Anagrams
- Anagrams/Deranged anagrams
- Permutations/Derangements
- Find/Search/Determine
- ABC words
- Odd words
- Word ladder
- Semordnilap
- Word search
- Wordiff (game)
- String matching
- Tea cup rim text
- Alternade words
- Changeable words
- State name puzzle
- String comparison
- Unique characters
- Unique characters in each string
- Extract file extension
- Levenshtein distance
- Palindrome detection
- Common list elements
- Longest common suffix
- Longest common prefix
- Compare a list of strings
- Longest common substring
- Find common directory path
- Words from neighbour ones
- Change e letters to i in words
- Non-continuous subsequences
- Longest common subsequence
- Longest palindromic substrings
- Longest increasing subsequence
- Words containing "the" substring
- Sum of the digits of n is substring of n
- Determine if a string is numeric
- Determine if a string is collapsible
- Determine if a string is squeezable
- Determine if a string has all unique characters
- Determine if a string has all the same characters
- Longest substrings without repeating characters
- Find words which contains all the vowels
- Find words which contains most consonants
- Find words which contains more than 3 vowels
- Find words which first and last three letters are equals
- Find words which odd letters are consonants and even letters are vowels or vice_versa
- Formatting
- Substring
- Rep-string
- Word wrap
- String case
- Align columns
- Literals/String
- Repeat a string
- Brace expansion
- Brace expansion using ranges
- Reverse a string
- Phrase reversals
- Comma quibbling
- Special characters
- String concatenation
- Substring/Top and tail
- Commatizing numbers
- Reverse words in a string
- Suffixation of decimal numbers
- Long literals, with continuations
- Numerical and alphabetical suffixes
- Abbreviations, easy
- Abbreviations, simple
- Abbreviations, automatic
- Song lyrics/poems/Mad Libs/phrases
- Mad Libs
- Magic 8-ball
- 99 Bottles of Beer
- The Name Game (a song)
- The Old lady swallowed a fly
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Tokenize
- Text between
- Tokenize a string
- Word break problem
- Tokenize a string with escaping
- Split a character string based on change of character
- Sequences
Ada
Using instances of generic procedure to filter odd/even words. <lang Ada>with Ada.Text_Io; with Ada.Containers.Indefinite_Ordered_Maps;
procedure Odd_Words is
use Ada.Text_Io;
package String_Maps is
new Ada.Containers.Indefinite_Ordered_Maps (Key_Type => String,
Element_Type => String);
Filename : constant String := "unixdict.txt"; Words : String_Maps.Map;
function Get_Odd (Word : String) return String is
Odd : String (1 .. (Word'Length + 1) / 2);
begin
for Index in Odd'Range loop
Odd (Index) := Word (1 + 2 * (Index - 1));
end loop;
return Odd;
end Get_Odd;
function Get_Even (Word : String) return String is
Even : String (1 .. Word'Length / 2);
begin
for Index in Even'Range loop
Even (Index) := Word (1 + 1 + 2 * (Index - 1));
end loop;
return Even;
end Get_Even;
generic
with function Filter (Word : String) return String;
procedure Iterate_Map;
procedure Iterate_Map is
begin
for Word of Words loop
declare
Half : constant String := Filter (Word);
begin
if Half'Length > 4 and then Words.Contains (Half) then
Put (Word); Set_Col (15); Put_Line (Half);
end if;
end;
end loop;
end Iterate_Map;
procedure Put_Odd_Words is new Iterate_Map (Get_Odd); procedure Put_Even_Words is new Iterate_Map (Get_Even);
File : File_Type;
begin
Open (File, In_File, Filename);
while not End_Of_File (File) loop
declare
Word : constant String := Get_Line (File);
begin
Words.Insert (Word, Word);
end;
end loop;
Close (File);
Put_Line ("Odd words:");
Put_Odd_Words;
New_Line;
Put_Line ("Even words:");
Put_Even_Words;
end Odd_Words;</lang>
- Output:
Odd words: barbarian brain childbear cider corrigenda cried gargantuan grata headdress hades palladian plain propionate point salvation slain siltation slain slingshot sight statuette saute supersede spree supervene spree terminable trial Even words: cannonball annal importation motto psychopomp scoop starvation train upholstery posey
ALGOL 68
Based on (and almost identical to) the Alternade Words sample. <lang algol68># find words where the odd letters also form a word #
- use the associative array in the Associate array/iteration task #
PR read "aArray.a68" PR IF FILE input file;
STRING file name = "unixdict.txt"; open( input file, file name, stand in channel ) /= 0
THEN
# failed to open the file # print( ( "Unable to open """ + file name + """", newline ) )
ELSE
# file opened OK #
BOOL at eof := FALSE;
# set the EOF handler for the file #
on logical file end( input file, ( REF FILE f )BOOL:
BEGIN
# note that we reached EOF on the #
# latest read #
at eof := TRUE;
# return TRUE so processing can continue #
TRUE
END
);
# returns w split into n parts by taking alternate characters #
PRIO SPLIT = 1;
OP SPLIT = ( STRING w, INT n )[]STRING:
BEGIN
[ n ]STRING result;
FOR r pos FROM LWB result TO UPB result DO result[ r pos ] := "" OD;
INT r pos := 1;
FOR w pos FROM LWB w TO UPB w DO
result[ r pos ] +:= w[ w pos ];
r pos +:= 1;
IF r pos > n THEN r pos := 1 FI
OD;
result
END; # SPLIT #
# build an associative array of the words #
REF AARRAY words := INIT LOC AARRAY;
WHILE STRING word;
get( input file, ( word, newline ) );
NOT at eof
DO
words // word := word
OD;
close( input file );
# find the words where the odd letters form a word at least five #
# characters long, the word itself must therefore be at least #
# nine characters long #
REF AAELEMENT e := FIRST words;
WHILE e ISNT nil element DO
IF STRING word = key OF e;
INT w len = ( UPB word + 1 ) - LWB word;
w len >= 9
THEN
[]STRING sub word = word SPLIT 2;
IF words CONTAINSKEY sub word[ 1 ]
THEN
print( ( word, ": " ) );
FROM w len + 1 TO 18 DO print( ( " " ) ) OD;
print( ( sub word[ 1 ], newline ) )
FI
FI;
e := NEXT words
OD
FI</lang>
- Output:
As with the Alternade Words Algol 68 sample, the output is not sorted, it has been sorted here for ease of comparison with the other samples' output.
barbarian: brain childbear: cider corrigenda: cried gargantuan: grata headdress: hades palladian: plain propionate: point salvation: slain siltation: slain slingshot: sight statuette: saute supersede: spree supervene: spree terminable: trial
Arturo
<lang rebol>words: read.lines relative "unixdict.txt"
getOdd: function [w][
odd: new ""
loop.with:'i w 'ch [
if even? i -> 'odd ++ ch
]
odd
]
loop words 'word [
ow: getOdd word
if and? [4 < size ow][contains? words ow] ->
print [word "=>" ow]
]</lang>
- Output:
barbarian => brain childbear => cider corrigenda => cried gargantuan => grata headdress => hades palladian => plain propionate => point salvation => slain siltation => slain slingshot => sight statuette => saute supersede => spree supervene => spree terminable => trial
AWK
<lang AWK>
- syntax: GAWK -f ODD_WORDS.AWK unixdict.txt
- sorting:
- PROCINFO["sorted_in"] is used by GAWK
- SORTTYPE is used by Thompson Automation's TAWK
{ arr[$0]++ } END {
PROCINFO["sorted_in"] = "@ind_str_asc" ; SORTTYPE = 1
main("13579","odd")
main("02468","even")
exit(0)
} function main(pattern,text, i,tmp,word) {
pattern = sprintf("[%s]$",pattern)
printf("\n%s:\n",text)
for (word in arr) {
tmp = ""
for (i=1; i<=length(word); i++) {
if (i ~ pattern) {
tmp = tmp substr(word,i,1)
}
}
if (length(tmp) > 4 && tmp in arr) {
printf("%-11s %s\n",word,tmp)
}
}
} </lang>
- Output:
odd: barbarian brain childbear cider corrigenda cried gargantuan grata headdress hades palladian plain propionate point salvation slain siltation slain slingshot sight statuette saute supersede spree supervene spree terminable trial even: cannonball annal importation motto psychopomp scoop starvation train upholstery posey
C++
<lang cpp>#include <cstdlib>
- include <fstream>
- include <iomanip>
- include <iostream>
- include <set>
- include <string>
- include <utility>
- include <vector>
using word_list = std::vector<std::pair<std::string, std::string>>;
void print_words(std::ostream& out, const word_list& words) {
int n = 1;
for (const auto& pair : words) {
out << std::right << std::setw(2) << n++ << ": "
<< std::left << std::setw(14) << pair.first
<< pair.second << '\n';
}
}
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
const char* filename(argc < 2 ? "unixdict.txt" : argv[1]);
std::ifstream in(filename);
if (!in) {
std::cerr << "Cannot open file '" << filename << "'.\n";
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
const int min_length = 5;
std::string line;
std::set<std::string> dictionary;
while (getline(in, line)) {
if (line.size() >= min_length)
dictionary.insert(line);
}
word_list odd_words, even_words;
for (const std::string& word : dictionary) {
if (word.size() < min_length + 2*(min_length/2))
continue;
std::string odd_word, even_word;
for (auto w = word.begin(); w != word.end(); ++w) {
odd_word += *w;
if (++w == word.end())
break;
even_word += *w;
}
if (dictionary.find(odd_word) != dictionary.end())
odd_words.emplace_back(word, odd_word);
if (dictionary.find(even_word) != dictionary.end())
even_words.emplace_back(word, even_word);
}
std::cout << "Odd words:\n"; print_words(std::cout, odd_words);
std::cout << "\nEven words:\n"; print_words(std::cout, even_words);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}</lang>
- Output:
Odd words: 1: barbarian brain 2: childbear cider 3: corrigenda cried 4: gargantuan grata 5: headdress hades 6: palladian plain 7: propionate point 8: salvation slain 9: siltation slain 10: slingshot sight 11: statuette saute 12: supersede spree 13: supervene spree 14: terminable trial Even words: 1: cannonball annal 2: importation motto 3: psychopomp scoop 4: starvation train 5: upholstery posey
=F#
<lang fsharp> // Odd words: Nigel Galloway. June 9th., 2021 let dict=seq{use n=System.IO.File.OpenText("unixdict.txt") in while not n.EndOfStream do yield n.ReadLine()}|>Seq.filter(fun n->n.Length>4)|>List.ofSeq let fN g=let n=g|>String.mapi(fun n g->if n%2=0 then g else ' ')|>String.filter((<>)' ') in match List.contains n dict with true->Some(n,g) |_->None dict|>Seq.filter(fun n->n.Length>6)|>Seq.choose fN|>Seq.iter(fun(n,g)->printfn "%s -> %s" g n) </lang>
- Output:
barbarian -> brain childbear -> cider corrigenda -> cried gargantuan -> grata headdress -> hades palladian -> plain propionate -> point salvation -> slain siltation -> slain slingshot -> sight statuette -> saute supersede -> spree supervene -> spree terminable -> trial
Factor
This is basically the same program as https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Alternade_words#Factor. <evens> is a virtual sequence representing the (zero-based) even indices of the input sequence, which this task calls the odd indices.
<lang factor>USING: formatting hash-sets io io.encodings.ascii io.files kernel literals math sequences sequences.extras sets strings ;
<< CONSTANT: words $[ "unixdict.txt" ascii file-lines ] >>
CONSTANT: wordset $[ words >hash-set ]
- odd ( str -- newstr ) <evens> >string ;
"Odd words > 4:" print words [ length 8 > ] filter [ odd wordset in? ] filter [ dup odd "%-15s %s\n" printf ] each</lang>
- Output:
Odd words > 4: barbarian brain childbear cider corrigenda cried gargantuan grata headdress hades palladian plain propionate point salvation slain siltation slain slingshot sight statuette saute supersede spree supervene spree terminable trial
FreeBASIC
<lang freebasic>#define NULL 0
type node
word as string*32 'enough space to store any word in the dictionary nxt as node ptr
end type
function addword( tail as node ptr, word as string ) as node ptr
'allocates memory for a new node, links the previous tail to it, 'and returns the address of the new node dim as node ptr newnode = allocate(sizeof(node)) tail->nxt = newnode newnode->nxt = NULL newnode->word = word return newnode
end function
function crunch( word as string ) as string
dim as string ret = ""
for i as uinteger = 1 to len(word) step 2
ret += mid(word,i,1)
next i
return ret
end function
function length( word as string ) as uinteger
'necessary replacement for the built-in len function, which in this
'case would always return 32
for i as uinteger = 1 to 32
if asc(mid(word,i,1)) = 0 then return i-1
next i
return 999
end function
dim as string word dim as node ptr tail = allocate( sizeof(node) ) dim as node ptr head = tail, curr = head, currj tail->nxt = NULL tail->word = "XXXXHEADER"
open "unixdict.txt" for input as #1 while true
line input #1, word if word = "" then exit while tail = addword( tail, word )
wend close #1
while curr->nxt <> NULL
if length(curr->word) > 8 then word = crunch( curr->word ) else goto nextword
currj = head
while currj->nxt <> NULL
if word = currj->word then print left(curr->word,length(curr->word));" ---> ";word
currj = currj->nxt
wend
nextword:
curr = curr->nxt
wend</lang>
- Output:
barbarian ---> brain childbear ---> cider corrigenda ---> cried gargantuan ---> grata headdress ---> hades palladian ---> plain propionate ---> point salvation ---> slain siltation ---> slain slingshot ---> sight statuette ---> saute supersede ---> spree supervene ---> spree terminable ---> trial
And to discourage the creation of a whole new task for the even words, here they are. It requires only changing a 1 to a 2 in line 20, and an 8 to a 9 in line 50.
cannonball ---> annal importation ---> motto psychopomp ---> scoop starvation ---> train upholstery ---> posey
Go
<lang go>package main
import (
"bytes" "fmt" "io/ioutil" "log" "sort" "strings"
)
func main() {
wordList := "unixdict.txt"
b, err := ioutil.ReadFile(wordList)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal("Error reading file")
}
bwords := bytes.Fields(b)
words := make([]string, len(bwords))
for i, bword := range bwords {
words[i] = string(bword)
}
count := 0
fmt.Println("The odd words with length > 4 in", wordList, "are:")
for _, word := range words {
rword := []rune(word) // in case any non-ASCII
if len(rword) > 8 {
var sb strings.Builder
for i := 0; i < len(rword); i += 2 {
sb.WriteRune(rword[i])
}
s := sb.String()
idx := sort.SearchStrings(words, s) // binary search
if idx < len(words) && words[idx] == s { // check not just an insertion point
count = count + 1
fmt.Printf("%2d: %-12s -> %s\n", count, word, s)
}
}
}
}</lang>
- Output:
The odd words with length > 4 in unixdict.txt are: 1: barbarian -> brain 2: childbear -> cider 3: corrigenda -> cried 4: gargantuan -> grata 5: headdress -> hades 6: palladian -> plain 7: propionate -> point 8: salvation -> slain 9: siltation -> slain 10: slingshot -> sight 11: statuette -> saute 12: supersede -> spree 13: supervene -> spree 14: terminable -> trial
Java
<lang java>import java.io.*; import java.util.*;
public class OddWords {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
Set<String> dictionary = new TreeSet<>();
final int minLength = 5;
String fileName = "unixdict.txt";
if (args.length != 0)
fileName = args[0];
try (BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName))) {
String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
if (line.length() >= minLength)
dictionary.add(line);
}
}
StringBuilder word1 = new StringBuilder();
StringBuilder word2 = new StringBuilder();
List<StringPair> evenWords = new ArrayList<>();
List<StringPair> oddWords = new ArrayList<>();
for (String word : dictionary) {
int length = word.length();
if (length < minLength + 2 * (minLength/2))
continue;
word1.setLength(0);
word2.setLength(0);
for (int i = 0; i < length; ++i) {
if ((i & 1) == 0)
word1.append(word.charAt(i));
else
word2.append(word.charAt(i));
}
String oddWord = word1.toString();
String evenWord = word2.toString();
if (dictionary.contains(oddWord))
oddWords.add(new StringPair(word, oddWord));
if (dictionary.contains(evenWord))
evenWords.add(new StringPair(word, evenWord));
}
System.out.println("Odd words:");
printWords(oddWords);
System.out.println("\nEven words:");
printWords(evenWords);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
private static void printWords(List<StringPair> strings) {
int n = 1;
for (StringPair pair : strings) {
System.out.printf("%2d: %-14s%s\n", n++,
pair.string1, pair.string2);
}
}
private static class StringPair {
private String string1;
private String string2;
private StringPair(String s1, String s2) {
string1 = s1;
string2 = s2;
}
}
}</lang>
- Output:
Odd words: 1: barbarian brain 2: childbear cider 3: corrigenda cried 4: gargantuan grata 5: headdress hades 6: palladian plain 7: propionate point 8: salvation slain 9: siltation slain 10: slingshot sight 11: statuette saute 12: supersede spree 13: supervene spree 14: terminable trial Even words: 1: cannonball annal 2: importation motto 3: psychopomp scoop 4: starvation train 5: upholstery posey
Julia
See Alternade_words#Julia for the foreachword function. <lang julia>isoddword(w, d) = (o = mapreduce(i -> w[i], *, 1:2:length(w)); haskey(d, o) ? rpad(w, 16) * ": " * o : "") foreachword("unixdict.txt", isoddword, minlen=9, numcols=1)
</lang>
- Output:
Word source: unixdict.txt barbarian : brain childbear : cider corrigenda : cried gargantuan : grata headdress : hades palladian : plain propionate : point salvation : slain siltation : slain slingshot : sight statuette : saute supersede : spree supervene : spree terminable : trial
Nim
<lang Nim>import sets, strformat, sugar
const DictFile = "unixdict.txt"
let words = collect(initHashSet, for word in DictFile.lines: {word})
var count = 0 for word in DictFile.lines:
var oddWord: string
for i in countup(0, word.high, 2): oddWord.add word[i] # First odd char is at index 0.
if oddWord.len > 4 and oddWord in words:
inc count
echo &"{count:2}: {word:12} → {oddWord}"</lang>
- Output:
1: barbarian → brain 2: childbear → cider 3: corrigenda → cried 4: gargantuan → grata 5: headdress → hades 6: palladian → plain 7: propionate → point 8: salvation → slain 9: siltation → slain 10: slingshot → sight 11: statuette → saute 12: supersede → spree 13: supervene → spree 14: terminable → trial
Perl
<lang perl>#!/usr/bin/perl
@ARGV = 'unixdict.txt'; chomp( my @words = <> ); my %dict; @dict{ grep length > 4, @words} = (); for ( @words )
{
my $oddword = s/(.).?/$1/gr;
exists $dict{$oddword} and print " $_ $oddword\n";
}</lang>
- Output:
barbarian brain childbear cider corrigenda cried gargantuan grata headdress hades palladian plain propionate point salvation slain siltation slain slingshot sight statuette saute supersede spree supervene spree terminable trial
Phix
<lang Phix>sequence words = get_text("demo/unixdict.txt",GT_LF_STRIPPED) function odd(integer /*ch*/, idx) return remainder(idx,2)=1 end function function oddch(string word) return filter(word,odd) end function function over4(string word) return length(word)>4 end function words = filter(filter(apply(words,oddch),over4),"in",words) printf(1,"%d odd words found: %s\n",{length(words),join(shorten(words,"",3),", ")})</lang>
- Output:
14 odd words found: brain, cider, cried, ..., spree, spree, trial
Alternative
Slightly more traditional, same output. <lang Phix>sequence words = get_text("demo/unixdict.txt",GT_LF_STRIPPED),
res = {}
for i=1 to length(words) do
string word = words[i], wodd = ""
for oddchar=1 to length(word) by 2 do
wodd &= word[oddchar]
end for
if length(wodd)>4
and find(wodd,words) then
res = append(res,wodd)
end if
end for printf(1,"%d odd words found: %s\n",{length(res),join(shorten(res,"",3),", ")})</lang>
Quackery
<lang Quackery> [ stack ] is sift.test ( --> s )
protect sift.test
[ ]'[ sift.test put
[] [] rot
witheach
[ sift.test share do iff
[ nested join ]
else
[ swap dip
[ nested join ] ] ]
sift.test release ] is siftwith ( [ --> [ [ )
[ 1 & ] is odd ( n --> b )
[ stack ] is dict ( --> s )
[ dict share dup dip find found ] is indict ( $ --> b )
$ "unixdict.txt" sharefile drop nest$ siftwith [ dup size 4 > ] nip dict put dict share siftwith [ dup size 8 > ] nip
witheach
[ siftwith [ i^ odd ]
drop
dup indict iff
[ echo$ cr ]
else drop ]
dict release</lang>
- Output:
brain cider cried grata hades plain point slain slain sight saute spree spree trial
Raku
<lang perl6>my %words = 'unixdict.txt'.IO.slurp.words.map: * => 1;
my (@odds, @evens);
for %words {
next if .key.chars < 9;
my $odd = .key.comb[0,2 … *].join;
@odds.push(.key => $odd) if %words{$odd} and $odd.chars > 4;
my $even = .key.comb[1,3 … *].join;
@evens.push(.key => $even) if %words{$even} and $even.chars > 4;
}
.put for flat 'Odd words > 4:', @odds.sort;
.put for flat "\nEven words > 4:", @evens.sort;</lang>
- Output:
Odd words > 4: barbarian brain childbear cider corrigenda cried gargantuan grata headdress hades palladian plain propionate point salvation slain siltation slain slingshot sight statuette saute supersede spree supervene spree terminable trial Even words > 4: cannonball annal importation motto psychopomp scoop starvation train upholstery posey
REXX
Any words longer than ten characters are truncated in the output.
version 1
<lang rwxx>/* REXX */ fid='d:\unix.txt' ww.=0 /* ww.* the words to be analyzed */ w.=0 /* w.word = 1 if word is in unix.txt */ Do While lines(fid)>0
l=linein(fid) /* a word */ ll=length(l) w.l=1 /* word is in unix.txt */ If ll>=9 Then Do /* worth to be analyzed */ z=ww.0+1 /* add it to the list */ ww.z=l ww.0=z End End
n=0 Do i=1 To ww.0
wodd=wodd(ww.i) If w.wodd Then Do n=n+1 Say format(n,3) left(ww.i,10) wodd End End
Exit wodd: Procedure /* use odd indexed letters */
Parse Arg w
wo=
Do i=1 To length(w)
If i//2=1 Then
wo=wo||substr(w,i,1)
End
Return wo</lang>
- Output:
1 barbarian brain 2 childbear cider 3 corrigenda cried 4 gargantuan grata 5 headdress hades 6 palladian plain 7 propionate point 8 salvation slain 9 siltation slain 10 slingshot sight 11 statuette saute 12 supersede spree 13 supervene spree 14 terminable trial
version 2, caseless
This REXX version doesn't care what order the words in the dictionary are in, nor does it care what
case (lower/upper/mixed) the words are in, the search for alternades is caseless.
It also allows the minimum length to be specified on the command line (CL) as well as the dictionary file identifier. <lang rexx>/*REXX program finds all the caseless "odd words" (within an identified dictionary). */ parse arg minL iFID . /*obtain optional arguments from the CL*/ if minL== | minL=="," then minL= 5 /*Not specified? Then use the default.*/ if iFID== | iFID=="," then iFID='unixdict.txt' /* " " " " " " */ @.= /*default value of any dictionary word.*/
do #=1 while lines(iFID)\==0 /*read each word in the file (word=X).*/
x= strip( linein( iFID) ) /*pick off a word from the input line. */
$.#= x; upper x; @.x= . /*save: original case and the semaphore*/
end /*#*/ /* [↑] semaphore name is uppercased. */
- = # - 1 /*adjust word count because of DO loop.*/
minW= minL * 2 - 1 /*minimum width of a word to be usable.*/ say copies('─', 30) # "words in the dictionary file: " iFID say finds= 0 /*count of the "odd words" found. */
do j=1 for #; L= length($.j) /*process all the words that were found*/
if L<minW then iterate /*Is word too short? Then ignore it. */
ow= /*initialize the "odd word". */
do k=1 by 2 to L /*only use odd indexed letters in word.*/
ow= ow || substr($.j, k, 1) /*construct the "odd word". */
end /*k*/
owU= ow; upper owU /*uppercase the odd word to be caseless*/
if @.owU== then iterate /*if not extant, then skip this word. */
finds= finds + 1 /*bump the count of "odd words" found. */
say right(left($.j, 20), 24) left(ow, 9) /*indent original word for readability.*/
end /*j*/
/*stick a fork in it, we're all done. */
say copies('─', 30) finds ' "odd words" found with a minimum length of ' minL</lang>
- output when using the default input:
────────────────────────────── 25104 words in the dictionary file: unixdict.txt
barbarian brain
childbear cider
corrigenda cried
gargantuan grata
headdress hades
palladian plain
propionate point
salvation slain
siltation slain
slingshot sight
statuette saute
supersede spree
supervene spree
terminable trial
────────────────────────────── 14 "odd words" found with a minimum length of 5
Ring
<lang ring> cStr = read("unixdict.txt") wordList = str2list(cStr) num = 0
see "Odd words are:" + nl
for n = 1 to len(wordList)
strWord = ""
len = len(wordList[n])
for m = 1 to len step 2
strWord = strWord + wordList[n][m]
next
ind = find(wordList,strWord)
if ind > 0 and len(strWord) > 4
num = num + 1
see "" + num + ". " + wordList[n] + " >> " + strWord + nl
ok
next </lang> Output:
Odd words are: 1. barbarian >> brain 2. childbear >> cider 3. corrigenda >> cried 4. gargantuan >> grata 5. headdress >> hades 6. palladian >> plain 7. propionate >> point 8. salvation >> slain 9. siltation >> slain 10. slingshot >> sight 11. statuette >> saute 12. supersede >> spree 13. supervene >> spree 14. terminable >> trial
Rust
<lang rust>use std::collections::BTreeSet; use std::fs::File; use std::io::{self, BufRead};
fn load_dictionary(filename: &str, min_length: usize) -> std::io::Result<BTreeSet<String>> {
let file = File::open(filename)?;
let mut dict = BTreeSet::new();
for line in io::BufReader::new(file).lines() {
let word = line?;
if word.len() >= min_length {
dict.insert(word);
}
}
Ok(dict)
}
fn print_words(words: &[(&String, String)]) {
for (i, (a, b)) in words.iter().enumerate() {
println!("{:2}: {:<14}{}", i + 1, a, b);
}
}
fn main() {
let min_length = 5;
match load_dictionary("unixdict.txt", min_length) {
Ok(dictionary) => {
let mut odd_words = Vec::new();
let mut even_words = Vec::new();
for word in &dictionary {
if word.len() < min_length + 2 * (min_length / 2) {
continue;
}
let mut odd_word = String::new();
let mut even_word = String::new();
for (i, c) in word.chars().enumerate() {
if (i & 1) == 0 {
odd_word.push(c);
} else {
even_word.push(c);
}
}
if dictionary.contains(&odd_word) {
odd_words.push((word, odd_word));
}
if dictionary.contains(&even_word) {
even_words.push((word, even_word));
}
}
println!("Odd words:");
print_words(&odd_words);
println!("\nEven words:");
print_words(&even_words);
}
Err(error) => eprintln!("{}", error),
}
}</lang>
- Output:
Odd words: 1: barbarian brain 2: childbear cider 3: corrigenda cried 4: gargantuan grata 5: headdress hades 6: palladian plain 7: propionate point 8: salvation slain 9: siltation slain 10: slingshot sight 11: statuette saute 12: supersede spree 13: supervene spree 14: terminable trial Even words: 1: cannonball annal 2: importation motto 3: psychopomp scoop 4: starvation train 5: upholstery posey
Swift
<lang swift>import Foundation
let minLength = 5
func loadDictionary(_ path: String) throws -> Set<String> {
let contents = try String(contentsOfFile: path, encoding: String.Encoding.ascii)
return Set<String>(contents.components(separatedBy: "\n").filter{$0.count >= minLength})
}
func pad(string: String, width: Int) -> String {
return string.count >= width ? string
: string + String(repeating: " ", count: width - string.count)
}
func printWords(words: [(String,String)]) {
for (n, (word1, word2)) in words.enumerated() {
print("\(String(format: "%2d", n + 1)): \(pad(string: word1, width: 14))\(word2)")
}
}
do {
let dictionary = try loadDictionary("unixdict.txt")
var oddWords: [(String, String)] = []
var evenWords: [(String, String)] = []
for word in dictionary {
if word.count < minLength + 2*(minLength/2) {
continue
}
var oddWord = ""
var evenWord = ""
for (i, c) in word.enumerated() {
if (i & 1) == 0 {
oddWord.append(c)
} else {
evenWord.append(c)
}
}
if dictionary.contains(oddWord) {
oddWords.append((word, oddWord))
}
if dictionary.contains(evenWord) {
evenWords.append((word, evenWord))
}
}
oddWords.sort(by: {$0.0 < $1.0})
evenWords.sort(by: {$0.0 < $1.0})
print("Odd words:")
printWords(words: oddWords)
print("\nEven words:")
printWords(words: evenWords)
} catch {
print(error.localizedDescription)
}</lang>
- Output:
Odd words: 1: barbarian brain 2: childbear cider 3: corrigenda cried 4: gargantuan grata 5: headdress hades 6: palladian plain 7: propionate point 8: salvation slain 9: siltation slain 10: slingshot sight 11: statuette saute 12: supersede spree 13: supervene spree 14: terminable trial Even words: 1: cannonball annal 2: importation motto 3: psychopomp scoop 4: starvation train 5: upholstery posey
Wren
<lang ecmascript>import "io" for File import "/fmt" for Fmt import "/sort" for Find import "/trait" for Stepped
var wordList = "unixdict.txt" // local copy var words = File.read(wordList).trimEnd().split("\n") var count = 0 System.print("The odd words with length > 4 in %(wordList) are:") for (word in words) {
if (word.count > 8) {
var s = ""
var chars = word.toList // in case any non-ASCII
for (i in Stepped.new(0...chars.count, 2)) s = s + chars[i]
if (Find.first(words, s) >= 0) { // binary search
count = count + 1
Fmt.print("$2d: $-12s -> $s", count, word, s)
}
}
}</lang>
- Output:
The odd words with length > 4 in unixdict.txt are: 1: barbarian -> brain 2: childbear -> cider 3: corrigenda -> cried 4: gargantuan -> grata 5: headdress -> hades 6: palladian -> plain 7: propionate -> point 8: salvation -> slain 9: siltation -> slain 10: slingshot -> sight 11: statuette -> saute 12: supersede -> spree 13: supervene -> spree 14: terminable -> trial
XPL0
<lang XPL0>string 0; \use zero-terminated strings int Dict(26000); \pointers to words (enough for unixdict.txt) int DictSize; \actual number of pointers in Dict
func StrCmp(A, B); \Compare string A to B char A, B; \Returns: >0 if A>B, =0 if A=B, and <0 if A>1 do
[if A(I) # B(I) then return A(I) - B(I);
if A(I) = 0 then return 0;
];
]; \StrCmp
func LookUp(Word); \Return 'true' if Word is in Dict char Word; int Lo, Hi, I, Cmp; [Lo:= 0; Hi:= DictSize-1; loop [I:= (Lo+Hi) / 2; \binary search
Cmp:= StrCmp(Word, Dict(I));
if Cmp < 0 then Hi:= I-1 else Lo:= I+1;
if Cmp = 0 then return true;
if Lo > Hi then return false;
];
]; \LookUp
int I, I0, DI, Ch, Count; char Word, Alt0(25); def Tab=$09, LF=$0A, CR=$0D, EOF=$1A;
[FSet(FOpen("unixdict.txt", 0), ^I); \load dictionary OpenI(3); \assume alphabetical order and all lowercase DI:= 0; \ignore non-alpha characters: 0..9, ' and & repeat Dict(DI):= Reserve(0); \get pointer to memory used to store Word
Word:= Dict(DI);
I:= 0;
loop [repeat Ch:= ChIn(3) until Ch # CR; \remove possible CR
if Ch=LF or Ch=EOF then quit;
Word(I):= Ch;
I:= I+1;
];
Word(I):= 0; \terminate Word string
I:= Reserve(I+1); \reserve memory used for Word
DI:= DI+1; \next dictionary entry
until Ch = EOF; DictSize:= DI;
DI:= 0; Count:= 0; repeat Word:= Dict(DI); \print out all odd words
I:= 0; I0:= 0;
loop [Ch:= Word(I);
if Ch = 0 then quit;
if (I&1) = 0 then [Alt0(I0):= Ch; I0:= I0+1];
I:= I+1;
];
if I >= 9 then \Word must have at least 9 chars
[Alt0(I0):= 0;
if LookUp(Alt0) then
[Count:= Count+1;
IntOut(0, Count); ChOut(0, Tab);
Text(0, Word); ChOut(0, Tab);
Text(0, Alt0); ChOut(0, Tab);
CrLf(0);
];
];
DI:= DI+1;
until DI >= DictSize; ]</lang>
- Output:
1 barbarian brain 2 childbear cider 3 corrigenda cried 4 gargantuan grata 5 headdress hades 6 palladian plain 7 propionate point 8 salvation slain 9 siltation slain 10 slingshot sight 11 statuette saute 12 supersede spree 13 supervene spree 14 terminable trial