Why don't you just count the letters???

my %max =( A=>8, B=>2, C=>5, D=>8, E=>7, F=>1, G=>3, H=>9, I=>8, K=>1, L=>9, M=>1, N=>12, O=>13, P=>1, Q=>0, R=>5, S=>6, T=>4, U=>6, V=>0, W=>1, X=>1, Y=>0, Z=>0); my @n = qw(Affenpinscher AfghanHound AiredaleTerrier Akita AlaskanMala +mute AmericanEnglishCoonhound AmericanEskimoDog AmericanFoxhound Base +nji BassetHound Beagle BeardedCollie Beauceron BlackandTanCoonhound B +loodhound BluetickCoonhound BorderCollie BorderTerrier Borzoi BostonT +errier BouvierdesFlandres Boxer BoykinSpaniel Briard Brittany Brussel +sGriffon BullTerrier Bulldog Bullmastiff ChesapeakeBayRetriever Chihu +ahua ChineseCrested ChineseShar-Pei Chinook ChowChow ClumberSpaniel C +ockerSpaniel Collie Curly-CoatedRetriever Dachshund Dalmatian DandieD +inmontTerrier DobermanPinscher DoguedeBordeaux EnglishCockerSpaniel E +nglishFoxhound EnglishSetter EnglishSpringerSpaniel GermanPinscher Ge +rmanShepherdDog GermanShorthairedPointer GermanWirehairedPointer Gian +tSchnauzer GlenofImaalTerrier GoldenRetriever GordonSetter GreatDane +Greyhound Harrier IbizanHound IcelandicSheepdog IrishSetter IrishTerr +ier Kuvasz LabradorRetriever LakelandTerrier LhasaApso Lowchen Maltes +e ManchesterTerrier Mastiff MiniatureBullTerrier MiniaturePinscher Mi +niatureSchnauzer NeapolitanMastiff Newfoundland NorfolkTerrier Peking +ese PembrokeWelshCorgi PharaohHound Plott PortugueseWaterDog Pug Puli + PyreneanShepherd RatTerrier ShibaInu ShihTzu SiberianHusky SilkyTerr +ier SkyeTerrier SmoothFoxTerrier SoftCoatedWheatenTerrier SpinoneItal +iano St.Bernard StaffordshireBullTerrier WireFoxTerrier WirehairedPoi +ntingGriffon Xoloitzcuintli YorkshireTerrier); WORD: for my $word (@n) { my %count=%max; for $c ( split //, uc($word) ) { next WORD if $count{$c}-- <=0; } print "$word\n"; }

output:

AfghanHound AiredaleTerrier Akita AmericanEnglishCoonhound AmericanFoxhound BassetHound Beagle BeardedCollie Beauceron BlackandTanCoonhound Bloodhound BluetickCoonhound BorderCollie BorderTerrier BostonTerrier Boxer Briard BullTerrier Bulldog Chihuahua ChineseCrested Chinook ClumberSpaniel CockerSpaniel Collie Dachshund Dalmatian DandieDinmontTerrier DobermanPinscher DoguedeBordeaux EnglishCockerSpaniel EnglishFoxhound EnglishSetter GermanPinscher GermanShepherdDog GermanShorthairedPointer GermanWirehairedPointer GlenofImaalTerrier GordonSetter GreatDane Harrier IcelandicSheepdog IrishSetter IrishTerrier LakelandTerrier LhasaApso Lowchen Maltese ManchesterTerrier MiniatureBullTerrier MiniaturePinscher Newfoundland NorfolkTerrier Pekingese PembrokeWelshCorgi PharaohHound Plott PortugueseWaterDog Pug Puli RatTerrier ShibaInu SmoothFoxTerrier SoftCoatedWheatenTerrier SpinoneItaliano WireFoxTerrier

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

update

If characters like dash or dot are allowed prepend grep {/[A-Z]/} to the for condition, e.g "St.Bernard" will be included too.


In reply to Re: Another word puzzle with too many permutations by LanX
in thread Another word puzzle with too many permutations by sarchasm

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