Five programming problems every Software Engineer should be able to solve in less than 1 hour

[Mike Kerner]

Most of those (and especially #5) are ones that I think would look much
nicer in LC than in most other languages.

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Mark Schonewille <
m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> It looks like this also doesn't solve it. Perhaps getting all combinations
> and taking the maximum is the only right solution?
>
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> On 5/10/2015 02:28, Mark Schonewille wrote:
>
>> Geoff,
>>
>> There's my new attempt. I haven't tested it thoroughly, but I'm leaving
>> it at this for tonight.
>>
>> I'm padding the numbers now, but if the number is padded, I give it an
>> advantage while sorting.
>>
>> // OK, not /that/ easy.
>> function problem4
>>       put
>> "642,6,4,3;642,6,4,1;642,6,661,4,3;5,50,56;420,42,423;262,26;26,262"
>> into myData
>>       set the itemDel to ";"
>>       repeat for each item myList in myData
>>            put myList into myOldList
>>            set the itemDel to comma
>>            sort items of myList numeric descending by len(each)
>>            sort items of myList numeric descending by
>> padded(each,len(item 1 of myList))
>>            replace comma with empty in myList
>>            put myOldList && myList & cr after myNewData
>>            set the itemDel to ";"
>>       end repeat
>>       return myNewData
>> end problem4
>>
>> function padded theItem,theLength
>>       set the itemDel to 0
>>       put 0 into item theLength of myNewItem
>>       put theItem into char 1 to len(theItem) of myNewItem
>>       if len(myNewItem) > len(theItem) then add .1 to myNewItem
>>       return myNewItem
>> end padded
>>
>>
>>
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