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

[Mark Schonewille]

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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Mark Schonewille

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On 5/10/2015 02:01, Geoff Canyon wrote:
> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Mark Schonewille <
> m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
>
>> Apparently, not as easy as I thought, but that makes it more interesting.
>
>
> Yeah, I'm now trying to salvage my padding solution, which is better than
> the padding solutions he gave on the site, but still wrong.