NPR puzzle

[Lynch, Jonathan]

Funny...

I guess quick and dirty was quickest - was it dirtiest?

I might try playing with a switch control structure to see if that is faster, but in the past I have found if-then to be a little faster.


I tried conjoining the components of the if-then statements with a bunch of 'or's and also by using 'and' with 'is in' instead of 'is not in'...

In both cases, it was like 2 or 3 milliseconds slower than the spread-out version.

-----Original Message-----
From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Eric Chatonet
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 5:08 PM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: NPR puzzle

Hi Jonathan,

You end up with my quick and dirty solution...
Just a word: else is not necessary in this case since you run a next  
repeat if the condition is verified ;-)

Le 20 juil. 05 à 22:48, Lynch, Jonathan a écrit :

> I get a small increase in speed by abandoning the inner loop, allowing
> the script to just go to the next word when there is not a match. I am
> running a bunch of other programs on my computer right now, so my  
> speed
> is compromised. Using Ro's script, I clocked at 75 milliseconds.
> Modifying his script as shown below, I improved to 64 milliseconds:
>
> on mouseUp
>   put the milliseconds into M
>   put fld "W" into W
>   put fld "E" into E
>   repeat for each line L in W
>     if char 1 to 2 of L is not in E then
>       next repeat
>     else if char 3 to 4 of L is not in E then
>       next repeat
>     else if char 5 to 6 of L is not in E then
>       next repeat
>     else if char 7 to 8 of L is not in E then
>       next repeat
>     else if char 9 to 10 of L is not in E then
>       next repeat
>     end if
>     put L & linefeed after F
>   end repeat
>   put the milliseconds-M into field "computation time"
>   put F into field "output"
> end mouseUp

Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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