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print "Perhaps she'll die." . "\n\n"; |
print "Perhaps she'll die." . "\n\n"; |
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}</lang> |
}</lang> |
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===Result=== |
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<pre>I knew an old lady who swallowed a fly. |
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I don't know why she swallowed the fly. |
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Perhaps she'll die. |
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I knew an old lady who swallowed a spider, |
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which wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her. |
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She swallowed the spider to catch the fly |
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I don't know why she swallowed the fly. |
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Perhaps she'll die. |
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I knew an old lady who swallowed a bird. |
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How absurd! To swallow a bird! |
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She swallowed the bird to catch the spider, |
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She swallowed the spider to catch the fly |
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I don't know why she swallowed the fly. |
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Perhaps she'll die. |
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I knew an old lady who swallowed a cat. |
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Imagine that! To swallow a cat! |
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She swallowed the cat to catch the bird. |
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She swallowed the bird to catch the spider, |
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She swallowed the spider to catch the fly |
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I don't know why she swallowed the fly. |
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Perhaps she'll die. |
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I knew an old lady who swallowed a dog. |
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What a hog! To swallow a dog! |
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She swallowed the dog to catch the cat. |
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She swallowed the cat to catch the bird. |
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She swallowed the bird to catch the spider, |
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She swallowed the spider to catch the fly |
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I don't know why she swallowed the fly. |
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Perhaps she'll die. |
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I knew an old lady who swallowed a horse |
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She's dead, of course. She swallowed a horse! |
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She swallowed the horse to catch the dog. |
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She swallowed the dog to catch the cat. |
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She swallowed the cat to catch the bird. |
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She swallowed the bird to catch the spider, |
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She swallowed the spider to catch the fly |
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I don't know why she swallowed the fly. |
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But she sure died!</pre> |
Revision as of 16:00, 16 August 2011
Present a program which emits the lyrics to the song I Knew an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, taking advantage of the repetitive structure of the song's lyrics.
Old lady swallowed a fly is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.
PHP
<lang php><?php
$swallowed = array(
array('swallowed' => 'fly.', 'reason' => "I don't know why she swallowed the fly."), array('swallowed' => 'spider,', 'aside' => "which wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.", 'reason' => "She swallowed the spider to catch the fly"), array('swallowed' => 'bird.', 'aside' => "How absurd! To swallow a bird!", 'reason' => "She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,"), array('swallowed' => 'cat.', 'aside' => "Imagine that! To swallow a cat!", 'reason' => "She swallowed the cat to catch the bird."), array('swallowed' => 'dog.', 'aside' => "What a hog! To swallow a dog!", 'reason' => "She swallowed the dog to catch the cat."), array('swallowed' => 'horse', 'aside' => "She's dead, of course. She swallowed a horse!", 'reason' => "She swallowed the horse to catch the dog."));
foreach($swallowed as $creature) {
print "I knew an old lady who swallowed a " . $creature['swallowed'] . "\n"; if(array_key_exists('aside', $creature)) print $creature['aside'] . "\n";
$reversed = array_reverse($swallowed); $history = array_slice($reversed, array_search($creature, $reversed));
foreach($history as $note) { print $note['reason'] . "\n"; }
if($swallowed[count($swallowed) - 1] == $creature) print "But she sure died!\n"; else print "Perhaps she'll die." . "\n\n";
}</lang>