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

[Mike Kerner]

4's another one that I think would look a lot nicer in LC than in most
other languages.

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
wrote:

> 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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On the second day, God created the oceans.
On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours,
   and did a little diving.
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