I am writing a program to solve problems like this: 
  BOND
+JAMES
------
AGENT

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The above problem is not one that works. Anyways, each letter stands for a number, and you need to find the numbers that will make the opperation work. Here is what I have so far: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "==============================\n====Pre-Calc Puzzle Solver====\
+n==============================\n\n","Number of words to be operated 
+on: ";
chomp($words = <STDIN>);
while ($_ != $words) {
    print "What is word #", $_ + 1, "? ";
    chomp($word[$_] = <STDIN>);
    $word[$_] = uc($word[$_]);
    $_++;
}
print "What is the operator?\nOperator: ";
chomp($op = <STDIN>);
$op = substr($op,0,1);
unless ($op =~ /\+|\-|\*|\//) {
    die "That's not an operator I want to deal with!";
}
print "What is the result?\nResult: ";
chomp($result = <STDIN>);
$result = uc($result);

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I have the code ready for the solving. And that is where I am stuck. I think I will just try to brute force it by replacing each letter with a number until it works. What is a good way to go through that process?

Code tags for puzzle statement - dvergin 2003-01-17

In reply to Words that equal numbers by Anonymous Monk

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