A very clever gimmick I saw from https://xpqz.github.io/AoC-day1/
is replace the following composite words:
'oneight' 'eightwo' 'nineight' 'twone' 'sevenine' 'eighthree'
by
'18' '82' '98' '21' '79' '83'
And it totally works XD
>>>>> In <camw+kcrhcen_ntks0h50qbulrt-2ctxzapjr-uxqjafref0...@mail.gmail.com>
>>>>> David Pinchbeck <dpinc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to improve my J using Advent of Code, but am already a bit
> stuck on the second part of day 1. It seems late enough in the day now to
> ask this question without spoiling anything.
> On the example code one needs to turn the string 'eightwothree' into '8wo3'
> I tried the following, which fails because the priority of stringreplace
> comes from the left argument ordering:
> digs=:'0123456789'
> s=:'zero';'one';'two';'three';'four';'five';'six';'seven';'eight';'nine'
> substr=:(s,. <"0 digs)
> g=:{{ substr stringreplace y}}
> g 'eightwothree'
> eigh23
> How can I get the earliest appearance on the right side to be replaced
> first instead?
> Thanks,
> David
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> David Pinchbeck
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> St. Joseph's College
> Standish, ME
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