Dear Rebels, during these days ther is the Facebook Hacker Cup 2011 , and Rebol isn't in the possible programming language admitted. Why don't you show that Rebol is an excellent language? Below there is the third puzzle to solve, try to post you solution. Studious Student You've been given a list of words to study and memorize. Being a diligent student of language and the arts, you've decided to not study them at all and instead make up pointless games based on them. One game you've come up with is to see how you can concatenate the words to generate the lexicographically lowest possible string. Input As input for playing this game you will receive a text file containing an integer N, the number of word sets you need to play your game against. This will be followed by N word sets, each starting with an integer M, the number of words in the set, followed by M words. All tokens in the input will be separated by some whitespace and, aside from N and M, will consist entirely of lowercase letters. Output Your submission should contain the lexicographically shortest strings for each corresponding word set, one per line and in order. Constraints 1 <= N <= 100 1 <= M <= 9 1 <= all word lengths <= 10 Example input Code: 5 6 facebook hacker cup for studious students 5 k duz q rc lvraw 5 mybea zdr yubx xe dyroiy 5 jibw ji jp bw jibw 5 uiuy hopji li j dcyi Example output Code: cupfacebookforhackerstudentsstudious duzklvrawqrc dyroiymybeaxeyubxzdr bwjibwjibwjijp dcyihopjijliuiuy Input file http://www.maxvessi.net/rebsite/fhc2011/input3.txt
Max, I've got plenty enough of my own programming problems to deal with than take on artificial problems!
Thanks for republishing these problems. If I've read the spec right, this one is trivial for REBOL: Code: data: read/lines http://www.maxvessi.net/rebsite/fhc2011/input3.txt for n 2 1 + to-integer data/1 1 [ print rejoin sort parse data/:n none ]
Very similar for me : Code: foreach x next read/lines http://www.maxvessi.net/rebsite/fhc2011/input3.txt [ print rejoin sort next parse x none ]