I believe you are allowed to do it, you'll have to upload all source you use, and maybe explain a bit how to go from the input to the output "easily". The idea is for you to show that the problem was solved by you, whether you find easier to parse input using awk, or you generate some data and later process it on a spreadsheet is irrelevant. There is another part were it says you can solve the input by hand with pen and paper if you provide an explanation of how you did it. Here are the rules: http://code.google.com/codejam/rules.html This extract should be good for you:
*Solving problems using methods other than a programming language* If you use specific software to solve a problem, specify this in the file. Also, please provide any input scripts you wrote for the software (e.g., mathematical software scripts, Excel spreadsheet). The program does not necessarily need to produce the output automatically, so it can be interactive. If you wrote an interactive commandline script, you should submit all commands used to solve the problem, e.g. a linux commandline with awk, Hugs commands, Matlab interpreter commands, shell commands, etc. Carlos Guía On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Jakub <kuba.straszew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In FAQ there is a statement: > "You are required to write a program that takes the text from the .in > file as input and produces some output (as defined by the problem > statement)" > > Does it mean that I have to create one program to solve the problem? > What if I would like to use some simple program (e.g. awk script) to > manipulate input data before I pass it to my C++ program which > actually solves the problem? > Is it allowed? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
