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The program specification say that the template should come from input, but many programs take input from a file or just a variable instead. Since the interesting bit is the parsing and string manipulation, I think that's fine, but in that case the specification should be reworded. (I can't come up with a concise, precise wording for it myself, so I'll leave that to someone else.)
: I think you are interpreting "input" as something like C's "standard input", but "input" has been a general concept that has included files for decades. (And, in fact, the OS abstraction that we think of when we say "standard input" was strongly influenced by this more general usage.)
: Anyways, it's probably good to use console input for this, but I think we can forgive people who went with a more general interpretation of that word. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 08:45, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
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