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- From: sscrivan@nyx.cs.du.edu (steve scrivano)
- Subject: word cracker
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.235126.25601@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 23:51:26 GMT
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- OK, gurus! Can anyone solve this problem?
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- I am looking for a fairly portable "C" program or script that will produce
- every possible 4 letter or greater combination using the following
- letters:
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- c e e f g h i i l l n n o p p r r r s s t t t u
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- Some of the letters appear more than once and therefore will increase the
- possible number of combinations possible. I realize that the number of
- combinations are incredible and will probably consume a great deal of
- cpu time. My intentions are to find every possible word that 4 or more
- of these letters can create. Each time a letter combination is created,
- that combination would be compared with /usr/dict/words and if found
- there it would be concatenated to a resulting word file.
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- The end result would be a word file created with all possible combinations.
- You might say, sort of a crossword puzzle cracker. It would be ideal if
- the program could accept input so all I had to do is enter in the letters
- and it would the job from there although not mandatory.
-
- Steve Scrivano
- sscrivan@nyx.cs.du.edu
-