NPR puzzle

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Dick,

Kudos!

As Sarah pointed it out, I was surprised to find out that putting the  
fields into some variables first did not speed up the things as I  
would have thought.
Good to know.
Let us think array :-)

Le 21 juil. 05 à 23:19, Dick Kriesel a écrit :

> Here's a solution that takes 10 milliseconds on a 1GHz PowerBook G4.
>
> The main reason for the speed improvement over previous solutions  
> is that
> array look-ups are typically faster than string searches.
>
>   put the milliseconds into tMilliseconds
>   repeat for each line tSymbol in field 2
>     put "true" into tSymbolArray[tSymbol]
>   end repeat
>   repeat for each word tWord in field 1
>     if tSymbolArray[char 1 to 2 of tWord] then
>       if tSymbolArray[char 3 to 4 of tWord] then
>         if tSymbolArray[char 5 to 6 of tWord] then
>           if tSymbolArray[char 7 to 8 of tWord] then
>             if tSymbolArray[char 9 to 10 of tWord] then
>               put tWord & return after tHits
>             end if
>           end if
>         end if
>       end if
>     end if
>   end repeat
>   put the milliseconds - tMilliseconds \
>       into tElapsedMilliseconds
>   put number of lines in tHits && "hits in" \
>       && tElapsedMilliseconds && "milliseconds" \
>       & return & return & tHits

Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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