Hi guys.
Typically I code using the easiest-to-read-and-understand method but I was just playing with an idea earlier and was curious on the "better" ways you can come up with to solve this problem.
You have a dictionary file of, say, 1 million words. You want to write a script to take RANDOMLY 100 words of each letter (a .. z). You want 100 words beginning with A, 100 words beginning with B, etc.
This is what I did. It's untested and doesn't need to work since I'm looking for how you guys would solve this.
open(DICT, "dictionary.txt" or die "Error: $!";
my @words = <DICT>;
close(DICT) or die "Error: $!";
@words = shuffle(@words); # assume shuffle is defined
my @new_words;
my @letters = (a .. z);
my @cnt = 0;
foreach my $letter (@letters)
{
$cnt = 0;
foreach my $word (@words)
{
if ($cnt > 100)
{
last; # break loop, our 100 word is found
}
if ($word =~ m/^$letter/i)
{
$cnt++;
push (@new_words, $word);
}
}
}
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