Switch, Case and wild-cards?

[Robert Sneidar]

Are Z and X the only characters that appear out of place? They also seem to be the only uppercase letters, unless that is just a coincidence of your example. If not a coincidence, why not make two passes, moving the uppercase letters first? I am not sure what you mean in the third rule. Are you saying that you need to move the X and Z sometimes after the next, sometimes after the next two, and sometimes after the next 3? If so, how do you tell when?

Bob


On Dec 29, 2012, at 4:32 AM, Richmond wrote:

> On 12/29/2012 04:40 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>> Richmond-
>> 
>> Friday, December 28, 2012, 2:24:28 PM, you wrote:
>> 
>>> I have a string of characters in a language that go something like this:
>>> ZaXbbdsfZvfghXaasn
>>> now I have to "translate" those into a different type of representation; and
>>> the 3 "rubs" are these:
>>> 1. everytime I encounter a Z it must be moved after the next symbol's
>>> representation in the translation,
>>> 2. everytime I encounter an X it must be moved before the preceding
>>> symbol's representation in the translation,
>>> 3. some of the symbols represented in the original string are
>>> represented in translation by a single symbol,
>>>      some by double symbols, and a few by triple symbols.
>> I don't think that's going to work. Or there's information missing or
>> something. By those rules, the first Z moves to after the a. Then the
>> X no longer follows the a. Is that what's desired? Are rules 1,2, and
>> 3 in order of precendence? Are these the *only* three rules? Rule
>> number 3 needs more fleshing out before anything can be done with it.
>> If the second Z moves after the v in vfgh and the second X moves
>> before the h in vfgh, does that break up a possible decryption of vfgh
>> or does it create a new fg phrase to be decrypted? I really hate to go
>> in this direction, but my guess is that you need more rules.
>> 
> 
> Keyboard transliteration of this sort of stuff can be implemented relatively easily . . .
> 
> However if one is going to allow the inputter to delete, insert and edit text this
> is not an acceptable solution.
> 
> Batch transliteration is "where it's at", and is also where I am stuck.
> 
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