[challenge] The Library 08-19-2015, 08:14 PM
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My friend and I came up with a theory:
Say you're in a library with a near infinite number of books, and each book is a different combination of 1 billion characters (numbers, letters, punctuation, whitespace, etc...). In that library, there would be every book ever written in multiple versions, the entire works of Shakespeare, A Song of Ice and Fire #6 and 7, a book that has the word poop written several million times, and a mountain of random garbage.
My challenge to you guys is to write a program that generates one of these books, 1000 characters each, outputs it to a text file, then generates another.
"but Chitoge, you can do that in, like, 10 lines!" That's a good point, concerned reader, but the name of the game here is efficiency and cleanliness.
My example:
Bonus points for making a Spell Checking program that sniffs out actual words.
Say you're in a library with a near infinite number of books, and each book is a different combination of 1 billion characters (numbers, letters, punctuation, whitespace, etc...). In that library, there would be every book ever written in multiple versions, the entire works of Shakespeare, A Song of Ice and Fire #6 and 7, a book that has the word poop written several million times, and a mountain of random garbage.
My challenge to you guys is to write a program that generates one of these books, 1000 characters each, outputs it to a text file, then generates another.
"but Chitoge, you can do that in, like, 10 lines!" That's a good point, concerned reader, but the name of the game here is efficiency and cleanliness.
My example:
Spoiler: Input:
Code:
chars = ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I", "J", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P", "Q", "R", "S", "T", "U", "V", "W", "X", "Y", "Z", "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z", 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, "\!", "\&", "\(", "\)", "\-", "\?", "\.", "\,", "\n", "\t", "\ "]
i = 0
x = 0
while x == x do
book = Array.new
1000.times {book << chars.sample}
c = File.new("books\\#{i}.txt", "w")
c.write(book.join(""))
i += 1
endSpoiler: Output(One of several thousand):
Code:
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don't have much in the first place, who feel the new currents and ride them the farthest.
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